How To Bling Out Your YouTube Channel
The best way to customize your YouTube Channel is to do the following:
1) Plan out your channel’s color scheme
2) Set your channel’s color options
3) Design a custom background to showcase your channel
Twitter as the Largest Trade Show
B2B companies should not look to Twitter as a way to sell widgets, but to view it as a trade show.
How To Make Tamales [Video]
The only thing better than fresh tamales during the holiday season is family. This explains why making tamales with family is such a joyful treat.
I also see my Twitter friends as an extension of my family so I was glad to share my enthusiasm, tweets, and a picture as I made the tamales. When people ask me how to build a “fan base” on Twitter, I always tell them to tweet about things they love (as in food, family, social causes,..), not what you think others want to see you tweet about.
IKEA Case Study Video – Building a Fan Base on Facebook
I’ve been buying IKEA furniture since the company first opened its doors in California. So when a Twitter friend tweeted about an IKEA social media case study video, I had to take a look.
How and Why I Got Involved in Health Care Reform
So much has happened since the day I first contacted Veronica De La Cruz. May 13, 2009 seems like yesterday and like a million years ago. As of today, it’s been over five months since Eric De La Cruz died and health care reform is close at hand. It’s time for me to tell how I became involved.
Read and Write to your WordPress Blog on Tweetie2 for iPhone
You can now read and post to WordPress.com blogs using Tweetie2, a third-party iPhone Twitter application.
This is cool because it’s like having mobile Twitter but for blogs. You can read and post to your blog and also read other WordPress.com blogs.
[Video Tutorial] How to Post Blips to your Twitter Feed
Yesterday I was asked how to automatically post Blips to Twitter so I created this quick video tutorial. Enjoy, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and follow this blog for more video tutorials.
Tracking a Breaking Story Using Twitter Lists – #FortHood
In a tragic situation such as the Fort Hood shootings, the Twitter Lists feature is extremely powerful as it creates an ad-hoc news channel. You get to curate and you get to tune in.
6 Ways I Use Twitter Lists
Twitter is in the process of rolling out its new Lists feature and there is a lot of hubub going on about A-List egos, feeling left out, and a ton of Twitter Lists blog posts.
I totally understand the I-got-picked-last-for-kickball feelings that can accompany being left off “top lists” of any kind. I sympathize but don’t think we need to live there. This posts takes a step back and looks at Twitter Lists as a software feature that we can use to serve our needs, in nice ways.
These are the 6 ways I am using Twitter lists to meet my needs.
Using Favorites on Twitter
A recent poll of Twitter users shows that the top two reasons people mark a tweet as a Favorite is:
A) to “bookmark” it for future use (41%)
B) to “reward” the tweet (41%)