As I said in my post for Thing 27, Power Twitter is a favorite. I had not used Tweet Deck much, but came back to it Friday and installed it on a new desktop pc; a recent update had greatly improved the application.
I tried a Twitter Widget in the sidebar from Widgetbox. Not terribly impressed, because it only displays my status updates, nothing from friends and others. Linda Wadman has a few Twitter badges in her sidebar, and I will revisit those sources. I wonder if anyone can make a widget out of the panels on Tweet Deck, which would allow filtering and display of my favorite Twitter friends and commercial tweets?
Widgetbox and Mashable have become favorite resources gleaned from Thing 31 sugggested readings. Not all of the lists and links are useful. Many of the authors cover the same ground. For example, a MashableTwitter Lists site for Artists interested me, a few professional artists were promoting themselves or galleries; mostly a rehash of Twitter basics.
http://mashable.com/2009/02/23/twitter-artists/
From Tweeters Directory, Just Tweet It, I picked Religion as category of common interest to see who shows up. I had not much in common with those already posting in the category. Artists was better than on Mashable. Registration was a lesson in quickly drafting a meaningful profile statement, and not user-friendly.
http://justtweetit.com/artists/
From Mr Tweet I picked up several new followers right away on Twitter. One named Kamper had an unusual gravitar, so I clicked on his/her web link which brought me to Tweet Later, a long list of Twitter productivity resources. LisaDawley is an online educator from Boise State with interesting blog posts, much like a life coach; hundreds following, but not so overwhelming as a celebrity.
http://onlineeducators.blogspot.com/
I signed up for another commercial social networking application called Linkedin. You may find it a useful job search resource for various library types. The content and layout are user-friendly. My son-in-law has developed more than 60 contacts in a year, and I got two contact invitations the first day.
http://www.linkedin.com/home
I also registered for Dilbert.com, where I had been following a blog by Scott Adams. Again familiar content, tools, and layout.
http://dilbert.com/blog/
There is more to do, but I will move on to nbr 32.
2 comments:
You have been busy! I started to download Tweetdeck and then cancelled at the last minute when the warnings came up. Unfounded fear? I was really intrigued by the connection with Facebook and Tweetdeck, but it only offered the prerelease version at this time. Sent my fear level up another notch. This next 23 things is really time consuming so your ideas are a big help.
It helps to get comments. Thanks. In a different context, I was part of a group of 45 people who regularly received emails from our leader. He said, always send a reply, no matter what. Otherwise it seems there is a black hole in space, like where all the lost socks go.
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