Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Mark Wright, now Lily Jang. Lily announced yesterday evening that she is leaving the TV station after 11 years in Seattle. Here is her Facebook post: “After 11 wonderful years in Seattle…I’m leaving Q13 and moving home to Houston. My immigrant parents worked their entire lives for my brother and me and gave us our [...]

Mark Wright, one of my favorite local TV personalities is saying goodbye this morning. Wright started at Q13 back in February 2003 and has been on the airwaves ever since. According to Q13’s website, Wright is leaving to spend more time with his family. Here is his official statement: “To anchor the news in your [...]

On Friday, April 29, social media will be used in ways never before witnessed. Prince William will wed Miss Catherine Middleton – in the last week, online stats show that the royal wedding is getting a new mention every 7 seconds. The British royalty group from Buckingham Palace says that the high focus on social [...]

CEOs can gain a lot of insight by creating a Twitter account. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that most use to create and develop relationships. Companies take it one step further and use it to gain a pulse on their product, service or offering. Consider it the place where you can gain constant and free [...]

1. Use the @ Sign to Talk to People. To reply to someone or to send a public message to someone on Twitter, place the “@” sign in front of their Twitter name. If you want to see public messages sent to you, click on your Twitter profile homepage and click on @Replies. 2. Retweet [...]

Bulldog Reporter’s one-day intensive media relations summit was one of the best conferences I’ve attended yet. Why? Well, you get one-on-one time with influential reporters from prolific news outlets like Newsweek, Inc., More, CBS, among others. These reporters and editors give you information about their news outlet, a behind-the-scenes look at their offices and staff, [...]

Basic Jargon: Tweets = 140-character updates on Twitter Follower = A user interested in your updates Following = All the users you are interested in following Tweetup = Real-world meeting of people who have connected via Twitter Twitterati = Celebrity and a-list Twits (or Tweeple or Tweeters) Search.Twitter.com = This is the site that allows [...]

My wife @LaceyYantis is a full-time wedding photographer. For the last two years she has repeatedly asked me what I get out of Twitter and why do I use it. About a month ago she created a username and password to understand Twitter’s fullest potential…and in about a month’s time she has 700+ followers. Realizing [...]

Last November, I clicked the link. I quickly learned what a phishing attack on Twitter really means. Everyone, I mean everyone, in my Twitter network received a note from me. It wasn’t the “This You” attack that is currently going on, it was something similar. Needless to say, I am real cautious about the links [...]

Next week I’ll be leading a discussion on measuring a company, person or organization’s social media presence. While I have participated in various conversations with larger social media monitoring services, the price they quote is rather larger (over $50,000 a year). Although these companies package the information into a full on report, so can you! [...]