Archive for April, 2009

Tools is used loosely here but for lack of a better choice tools it is. These may or may not be new to you and may or may not even be useful but I bet you have fun with at least ONE! Of course the title to this post was inspired by the first tool …

http://tweetcloud.com – Tweetcloud can give you some good insight to someone, or yourself. My tweet cloud isn’t always what I would like to see from myself and it definitely tells me what I was going through at the time. This is an awesome tool for helping keep your attitude in check and keep your ideas focused.

http://twitterfall.com – Twitterfall is, to me, less useful but interesting. I use a service that allows me to easily follow up to 10 key words or phrases in separate grids. More on that in a different post.? Go ahead and give this one a try though – it’s fun.

http://dossy.org/twitter/karma – Twitter Karma from Dossy is one of the best and simplest friend managers I have used and I’ve used quite a few. Because it relies on the Twitter API it is limited on the number of followers a user can have to make effective use of the application. At nearly 5000 followers I’m pushing the limits.

http://www.hashtags.org – Hashtags is a useful tool especially if you are really monitoring a particular keyword or phrase use. The site delivers a graphical representation of the use in the form of a visual chart of the most commonly used hashtags. If you’re reading @superphly, @brianthecoder, & @benburkert it would be fantastic to have one or all of you on Social Media Edge to talk about your site and other works.

http://whendidyoujointwitter.appspot.com – When did you join Twitter? But I bet you guessed that from the URL. This one is kind of single purpose except I suppose you could waste invest a lot of time checking out your friends join date.

Can you say ripe for abuse? But hey, I’m just the messenger

http://icall.com/free-phone-calls/ – no joke, just go to the web page and start making phone calls. Want to start a pool on how long this lasts? No login needed.

While we’re at it this one appears to work only for international calls http://evaphone.com/ no login needed. “Hello? May I speak with the dictator please?”

Twitter Tuesday Radio gets a new name. What? Check the video lol ol. Or as someone said ROFLMBO … tomorrow’s guest joining Jason Crouch and me (Ken Cook) is Sarah Evans (http://twitter.com/prsarahevans). Of course your friend and mine Mike Mueller will be talking about …. FACEBOOK! And some cool FB tips. Noon EASTERN at http://budurl.com/jckc

Okay – I don’t care much for Ashton Kutcher’s star persona but I don’t know him personally so I can’t speak. What I do like is a good challenge and an underdog. Yes, Ashton Kutcher is http://twitter.com/aplusk – I don’t know what CNN is but I do know that Ashton has told CNN he, Ashton, will be the first user with 1,000,000 followers.

Again, I don’t care if he gets a million or not but I do want him to beat CNN. So please follow him … I don’t follow celebs but I just followed him. If you want to know some other celebs read an older Twitterbits post.

I guess Larry King takes it personally. L. O. L.

Links to Tea Party photos on Twitpic – click the title above to use the links below (sorry):

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This really does not require any additional commentary from me. After all, who can match the genius of Apple Computing? See the full story [here]

Every guru, it seams, or at least most of the above average Twitter users we have interviewed on Twitter Tuesday Radio on JCKC have said there are certain things you should not tweet about. Both my co-host, Jason Crouch and I, disagree as do most uber tweeters – people who have tens of thousands of followers.

For any person using any media the first step should be to be comfortable with yourself and then to have a pre-determined plan of what you will tweet about but only if you are not simply a free-spirit having fun. If you are on Twitter *just to do business* you’re really not welcomed by the masses anyway so you’re going to interact.

Guess what? I love it when people show pictures of ice cream! I also may like to read if someone just finished a favorite book, if they are watching Bones, going to eat dinner with a friend, or headed to a Rolling Stones concert. This is how we get to know people – this is how we socialize!

Oh, that’s right, some users forget too frequently this whole bit is called “social media” and they just want it to be their little barrell full of fish. (That’s a reference to an American saying “like shooting fish in a barrell” for a salesman in a room full of stupified buyers.

So tweet what you want, when you want, as often as you want, and to the attention of whomever you want. If people don’t like it the process to unfollow is more simple than the process to follow.

Now for the title of this post I have to tell on myself. The question on Twitter, of course, is “What are you doing?” Many people answer it literally and in few words, “Headed to work”, “Eating pie”, or some other simple answer. During REtechSouth I was sitting next to Reggie Nicolay when the question of to tweet or not to tweet something in particular was brought up by Jeff Turner. I couldn’t believe I leaned over and said this but I said, “Just once I would like to tweet something a little silly and a little disgusting. So I started on a journey to see if someone may have just tweeted that:

You may not want to know but evidently it’s pretty popular – the results are in click here.

Follow me on Twitter if you dare. I won’t tell you everything I’m doing – I promise.

This Could Be the Funnest Social Media Class In The World
You’ve heard about people making money and building huge networks with social media networking. You may even already be using social media to promote your business and want to ramp up the results.

Ken Cook and Jason Crouch are two very prolific social media users, students and promoters who derive a great deal of their business through their use of social media. They are also co-hosts of one of the most listened to web radio programs on the topic of social media which airs live every Tuesday at noon eastern at http://budurl.com/jckc

Now, for the first time, they are launching their fast track training program to help you get started or get better results by being more familiar with the tools, tips and methods they use to promote their business and radio show.

The class lasts for two hours and you can attend live and in person in Marietta, Georgia or online with video and audio.

This 2 hour class includes actual examples of how to:

Introduction to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many others
Build a network worthy of your efforts
Understanding the SEO effects of social media
Source the type of people to connect with for your goals
Use tools to manage large numbers of contacts
Avoid angering your contacts and making a disconnect
Capitalizing your time spent using social media
Where social media is heading
Sourcing tools to make social life easier and more productive
How to make direct income from social media networking
Converting social media connections to friends
How to interconnect your social media presence across channels
Pitfalls to avoid or at least be aware of
Using micro-blogs to juice up SEO
and much more!

This Session is not industry specific and can be used by anyone for any reason to build a larger social network and how to become a vibrant and active part of this exploding growth community.

Ken Cook is Social Media Director for Novation Mortgage in Atlanta, Georgia and a regular speaker in the John Adam’s Real Estate Institute at Emory University. He has also spoken extensively at venues all over the East Coast from Miami to New York and most recently headed a Breakout Session on Social Media for Business at REtechSouth at the Gwinnett Civic Center. He is also founder and co-host of Twitter Tuesday Radio every Tuesday at Noon Eastern. He is ranked in the top 50 for Twitter users in the state of Georgia on TwitterGrader, one of the Top 200 Top Conservatives on Twitter, a Top Blogger on Active Rain, and several other blogs.

Jason Crouch is owner/broker of Austin Texas Real Estate and the top subscribed blogger on Active Rain who is not a staff member. He speaks in the Austin area on social media and recently had the most supportive comments of any other entrant in the Texas Social Media Awards. He is ranked in the top twenty Twitter users in Austin on TwitterGrader. Twitter is a tough town with lots of power tweeters! Jason is in the top 60 Top Conservatives on Twitter and co-host of Twitter Tuesday Radio.

Each line/seat is only $99.95 and it really does make a fantastic gift!

Will you be attending

in person? online?

Which date and time? (EST)

April 8, 2009 – 4PM-6PM April 16, 2009 – 8PM-10PM April 24, 2009 – 10AM-Noon