Category Archives: twitter

Good use of social media (Charter)

robinna/ March 26, 2010/ social media, twitter/ 0 comments

Okay, I am neither endorsing or denouncing Charter Cable (I’ll leave that to you!), but I do use it (have to have the high speed, you know). A few days ago I posted (tweeted) about how bad my network/reception was in my area. I had considered calling, but I just hadn’t gotten around to it — end of the day

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Question of the Day: How to search your own tweets at twitter

robinna/ February 24, 2010/ Technology, publishing, History of Technology, Culture, social media, semantic web, meetups/conferences, question of the day, twitter, tutorials, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

So, this was MY question today: as in, I wanted to re-post a tweet about moonshine arts & literary magazine. I couldn’t quite remember what I wrote and I didn’t use a #hashtag. So what to do? How do you search your own twitter feed? There are lots of cool trending tools out there, but those are very limited in

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Bookmark in del.icio.us, send to twitter and, post to facebook

robinna/ October 19, 2009/ social media, twitter, tools/tips, Training/ 0 comments

There are probably multiple ways to do this (friendfeed, google reader, etc.) but I’m already posting from twitter to facebook. So, throwing in another tool that I use (and love — but really only as a personal bookmark service) del.icio.us, I discovered that I can now bookmark in del.icio.us and then send to twitter. Using the post from twitter, I

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How to disconnect twitter from facebook (and how to selectively tweet)

robinna/ September 3, 2009/ social media, twitter, tools/tips, Training/ 15 comments

This post will cover 2 things: how to disconnect your facebook status from twitter and how to set up selective tweeting to facebook. Selective tweetingIn facebook, there is a great application called selective twitter status, which gives you control over which of your tweets go to facebook. Once you add selective twitter to your facebook account and link your twitter

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Why use Twitter (and why I twitter)

robinna/ August 26, 2009/ social media, twitter, networking, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Some time ago, I gave up on the notion that I could be an artist and have a completely private life. The thing with being an artist (musician, writer, painter, director, actor, etc…) is that you need fans. You need supporters. You need people to know about your artwork and support your artwork (both financially and intellectually). So, unless you

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Twitter verified accounts

robinna/ August 17, 2009/ social media, twitter, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

I dunno, do I need this? I kind of feel like we all need to stake our digital identities firmly NOW, because the ‘net is only going to be a more crowded space. From twitter: What does it mean? With this feature, you can easily see which accounts we know are ‘real’ and authentic. That means we’ve been in contact

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