Entries from June 2008 ↓

I’m a newbie to Twitter. I was in social networking overload (well, I still am…) and didn’t want to bother with something new. But as of last week, I’m a convert. It’s fun, and I can definitely see the potential publicity uses for business.

Twitter is a “micro-blogging” tool. You communicate with your Twitter followers with 140-character or less updates — called “tweets.” You post your updates and read your followers’ either via the web or a mobile device.

There are some cool resources for Twitter that I’ve discovered in the past week, including a couple sent to me by my friend and former co-worker Loki:

• Summize - Search Twitter conversations to find people with similar interests.
• Loud Twitter - Automatically send your tweets to your regular blog.
• twitAbit - Queue up your tweets when Twitter is down — which lately seems to be quite often!
• Twitter Feed - Send your regular blog posts to Twitter.
• Twitter Fox - An interface for Twitter via an add-on for Mozilla Firefox.

What are some of your favorite resources for Twitter? What are some of your favorite uses for Twitter, either for your business or from a personal perspective?

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Paulo Coelho, author of The Witch of Portobello, is doing a pretty cool promotion on MySpace. Users of the site can submit videos based on his book in order to create a “mash-up” that will become a feature-length movie entitled The Experimental Witch.

It’s neat publicity for the book, as well as a chance for aspiring filmmakers and musicians to get some attention. Winners will be featured on the MySpace home page as well as in banner ads.

Read more about it at Paulo’s website.