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Social Media

TweetDeck – now with more awesome!

June 17, 2009
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In the wiggly world of Twitter apps, competition is getting pretty tight between the leading desktop contenders; TweetDeck, Seesmic, and new-kid-on-the-block Mixero.
Today TweetDeck launched their latest update, with some pleasant surprises:

Conversation window – View an entire dialogue all at once.
Video playback – Watch Qik or 12seconds video clips from the comfort of TweetDeck.
New ‘Block & [...]

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The reasons why people follow me on Twitter

March 4, 2009

In the previous post, I started to answer the question “Why people follow me on Twitter.” I went through some background, reviewed my tweet history, and wrote a bit about my experience using Twitter’s Direct Message (DM) to ask the question.
This follow-on post gets into the actual reasons and numbers.
Over the three months I conducted [...]

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Wondering why people follow me on Twitter?

February 27, 2009

About 6 months ago I got curious as to why people were following me on Twitter. Basically I asked them… and then found out some rather interesting things, both about why they were following me and also about the evolving etiquette around Twitter interactions.
This has turned into a two-part post. Initially I was going to [...]

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A few Twitter tips for TV media

February 23, 2009

Recently I had the opportunity to help introduce a local TV news anchor to the rather convoluted world of Twitter, via Twitter.
That session gave me pause to think about what the TV news media really knows about this new media and its denizens.
So, to save repeating myself, and perhaps help a few other TV types [...]

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Organized: A great thing to be when guest editing at someone else’ blog

February 16, 2009

Last week I had the honour of curating One Degree’s Week in Review. My contribution: Meltdowns, Monitizaton and Monks. The week in review: Friday the 13th edition, February 2009
Quick background:
OneDegree.ca is one of Canada’s leading online publications about digital marketing, online communications and social media — penned by some of Canada’s most insightful and innovative [...]

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eeePC Netbook Ubuntu mod and a bit of fun

January 28, 2009

As you can see, I’ve managed to get TweetDeck installed on my languishing eeePC 8G Netbook.
Originally we’d picked the eeePC up as a light web browser, but found the native Xandros OS a bit weak.
Time passed and we’d not had time to really explore the potential of this little guy…until now.
First off, the OS needed [...]

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What to know when changing website hosts

December 3, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I found the following in an email from my webhost:
Your web hosting account for bradgrier.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
After a quick call to the [...]

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In Transition — as the page says

November 21, 2008

Due to a monumental FUBAR between my website host, server restrictions, and some resource-heavy wordpress plugins, Bradgrier.com is currently without a home.
All is not lost:

I have a backup of the site, content, posts, comments etc
I retain my domain names etc
I have a boat-load of work ahead of me as I research and rebuild

Lessons learned:

Backups are [...]

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Live election night coverage online (Canadian Election)

October 15, 2008

Another Canadian election has come and gone. Programmed mainstream media coverage was again, less than inspiring. I found that to truly enjoy this national exercise, you have to watch it in the company of friends, as you would a Saturday afternoon hockey game.
I spent election night online. Using a variety of free sources, I was [...]

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3 Top Tools To Tame Twitter

September 18, 2008

photo credit: Thomas Hawk

As Twitter moves into its more mature phase, a number of Twitter utilities have emerged, some good, some not so good. I’m an early adopter and a daily Twitter user and have experimented with many Twitter tools over time. Please feel free to  follow me but without further blather, here’s [...]

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