Engage Your Blog Readers with Tweetboard
Twitter is one of the best communities to be involved in to have discussions, share knowledge and learn new things. It’s also great for building new relationships and finding new contacts. If you own a blog, you simply can’t afford not to use Twitter to build a more solid community and get more people to visit your site. Thankfully, there are many ways you can go about bringing the Twitter community to your blog. Tweetboard is one of those solutions. Tweetboard lets your users get more engaged with your blog and start and participate in discussions around your blog posts. It’s essentially a forum based on Twitter.
Tweetboard is very easy to install. All you have to do is grab the Javascript code from the developers and put it on your blog before the end of your BODY tag. Your board will be hidden at first but your visitors get to see how many new tweets have been posted since their last visit. That’s a great way to let your visitors know whether there have been replies to their tweets.
The board itself is very cool. You get nested conversations, latest activity, and new tweets all in one place. Your visitors can easily use their Twitter account to get more involved in your community. Best of all, you get a lot of traffic back to your website as a result of all these discussions. Everytime someone decides to post a tweet on your blog post, Tweetboard automatically uses posted.at and inreply.to domains to post a link back to that conversation and your blog post. If you get a whole lot of people to participate in your blog discussions, you are going to get a lot of traffic back.
All in all, tweetboard is a wonderful tool for bloggers who want to get more out of Twitter. Whether you are looking to get more traffic to your blog or get your users more engaged, tweetboard is a good tool to test out. It’s not the only Twitter tool on the market, but it’s still a good one to test to see how it can help you take your blog to the next level. The potential is certainly there for this tool to be a killer addition for your blog.
Get Research Done On Twitter with Topsy
Twitter may be great for finding new friends and people to talk to. But in reality there is much more value in researching and listening to what others have to say on Twitter. Thanks to tools such as Topsy, you can easily find out what people are talking about. Topsy is one of the best research tools for Twitter that lets you find out who’s talking about what. Not only that, you can also find out who the top tweeters are (based on your keyword) and what the top stories are. And you can also find out whether your keyword (and market) is gaining or losing momentum on Twitter.
Topsy not only tells you what’s been happening on Twitter in the past month (in regards to your keyword), but it also tells you the weekly, daily, and hourly stats, letting you stay on top the top of things easily. Take the keyword “iPhone” for example. Topsy tells you what the top stories are, the number of twitbacks per story, and the top authors in this niche. If you have a business in this niche, you can find many influential users that you can reach out to promote your business.
10 Videos To Get You Started With Twitter
If you have been reading this blog for a while, chances are you already know about Twitter, Facebook, and other top social networking sites. But if you don’t, there are plenty of ways to get started with Twitter and become a master in a short period of time. Twitter is not rocket science. There is an art behind getting many followers on Twitter, but it’s not something only super geniuses are capable of figuring out. Thankfully, there are a whole lot of smart people on the Internet that make video tutorials to help others get started with the latest Web 2.0 technologies. If you are new to Twitter and have no idea where to start, here are a few videos you should consider watching:
Social Media In Plain English: a great video for those new to the social media.
Twitter In Plain English: shows you what Twitter is all about.
How to Become a Twitter Power User: shows you how Twitter power users go about using Twitter.
How to Create an Awesome Twitter Profile Background: create your own Twitter background fast.
How to Track and Extract Replies on Twitter: never miss a reply again.
Twendz: Ultimate Twitter Trend Research
Twitter is one of the fastest growing Web 2.0 communities around these days. A few months ago, a whole lot of people hadn’t heard of Twitter. But these days, almost anybody you talk to knows what Twitter is. Twitter is a great way to communicate with others and learn a lot of new things. But that’s not even the best part about Twitter. I have said it before and don’t hesitate to say it again: Twitter is a goldmine. It’s provides all of us with more data that we can handle. As long as you are using the right tools and listening the right way, there is no reason you can’t develop new products, ideas, and services that can not only make you money but also provide your customers with exactly what they need.
Twendz is a cool Twitter tool that lets you track conversations on Twitter and find out about the latest trends. The engine automatically goes through the discussions in the community and figures out the most talked about topics. It will also tell you whether people are talking positively or negatively about that topic. That is very powerful if you are trying to figure out what people are saying about your brand or what they love or hate in a product or service.
Let’s take today for example. People are talking about BNP, WWDC (not surprisingly), and Apple. Once you choose a topic to listen in on, Twendz is going to show you how people are talking about it, and what related tags you can use to find more information about the same topic.
Now think about what you can do with such a powerful product. You can easily do market research and find out what people are interested about when it comes to let’s say WWDC. If you want to develop an accessory for iPhone, you can figure out what people really want as an add-on for their phones. You can also find out what people don’t like, and what you can do to address their needs.
Twendz is one of many tools that let you analyze Twitter data and get ideas about your brand, products, and services. The key to having success on Twitter is keeping your ears and eyes open. It’s fun to chatter all day on Twitter, but there is even more value in listening to what others need and want.
6 Apps To Manage FriendFeed On Your iPhone
Twitter and Facebook may be the kings, but FriendFeed is not far behind. If you are not already on Friendfeed, it’s never too late to start. It’s a great way to share information, engage in discussions, and learn new tricks. Chances are you are not around enough to manage your Friendfeed account as well in addition to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. You can always sync your Friendfeed account with the other ones, but I personally prefer being involved in the community more. That’s the best way to get more value out of it.
If you have an iPhone, you can easily manage your Friendfeed account when you are on the go. That’s probably the best way to keep up. Here are 6 iPhone applications that let you update your account from anywhere at anytime.
- BuddyFeed: a premium client for FriendFeed junkies. Very powerful and comes with everything you need to take care of your FriendFeed account. It’s the best Friendfeed client by a decent margine.
- Pingle: a client based on Ping.FM that allows you to update your FriendFeed page fast.
- Statuso: a great little app that lets you update your FriendFeed or Facebook status easily.
- Compose: allows you to send notes and links to your FriendFeed account.
- Nambu: a free app for FriendFeed that lets you manage your account while you are on the go. Not as good as the premium ones but still good.
- webfeedr: another FriendFeed client that lets you post updates and access your info on your phone.
You don’t have to be at your desk to get the discussion going on Friendfeed. All you need is a phone that lets you manage your account while you are on the go. Best of all, the above apps don’t cost you more than a couple of dollars. Well worth the investment.
