Tim O’Reilly and company recently offered a
“…Twitter Boot Camp, (which was) held June 15 in New York, (and) offered a variety of best practices and case studies revolving around Twitter’s business, marketing, branding and advertising opportunities. Slides from the day’s presentations are available…”
…by clicking on this link and then clicking on the various hypertext links (e.g. Create More Value Than You Capture)
If you want to know more about what Twitter can do for your organization, I suggest you check this out.
The NYTimes.com has very good coverage on the situation in Iran, including an article pertaining to the social of Web 2.0 technology there:
Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online – NYTimes.com. I am struck by how actively platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are being used inside and outside of Iran. So much so, in fact, that Twitter had one of their infrastructure service providers postpone a outage to maximize access to the service by the people of Iran. (The outage is now scheduled for 1:30 am in Iran: middle of the afternoon in the U.S.).
Like Obama did during the election and afterward, Iranians are doing many things, including changing how people perceive social networks.
..you may be asking yourself: is there times I shouldn’t tweet? Well, yes. These may seem obvious, but I have seen may people break the guidelines listed in this posting on the blog Meg’s Single Step. There may be more than this, but start with the Top Ten Worst Times to Tweet. Incidentally, what goes for tweeting goes for blogging and any other digital communications.
(Thanks to Andy Piper for the tip.)
It’s alot harder than you think, what with all this new Web 2.0 technology! The following is a funny take on how much harder it can be to promote a book these days. See:
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