My Sunday Morning and the Boston Globe

Adam Here: On Sunday morning I woke up before the kids, grabbed my cup of coffee, sat at the kitchen table and read the Boston Globe section by section, folding and flipping while the tips of my fingers slowly turned gray… Wait wait wait, that isn’t exactly how it went. With mug in hand, I [...]

Organizing via Twitter Lists

  Scoops Here. Twitter Lists are novel concept to most socialmedialites out there, however many organizations can use this tool to help simplify its collective voice as well as provide a slew of other benefits.  In essence, Twitter Lists is now what we would call groups so you can assemble the types of people you [...]

i spy with my little search engine

or big search engines… Monitoring the online conversation just got easier as both Bing and Google have penned deals with Twitter allowing the search giants to mine Tweets for their search results. What does this mean for you?  Real time twitter results for Google and Bing search queries are on the horizon. Vanity searches are [...]

It is never to late to start Tweeting, Twitting, Tweetie…

Scoops Here. If you feel like social media is too beyond you, take some advice from Bill Cosby. Although not his thing, at least he tries. Mr. Cosby decided to dip his feet in the water by promoting “The Cosnarati,” a socially conscious hip-hop group he hopes will guide young people to do good with their lives. [...]

How Do Your ReTweets Spread?

Scoops Here. Have you ever retweeted a story  and thought..where does it go? and is who else has caught on? Well, TweetMeme has proved to be a powerful tool for online publishers. TweeMeme already has analytics tools and packages, but they have also decided to delve into a complementary tool to their existing offering for deep insight into [...]

I will be a Follower of McDonald’s on Twitter…

I am probably the only true fan of McDonald’s in the office. Making my daily morning trip for hotcakes and sausage. Grabbing a double cheeseburger without the cheese on my way to an appointment. Now starting on Monday I will be able to follow my favorite quick service brand on Twitter. Always careful with their [...]

Twitter Can’t Seem to Get You to Open Up…

Scoops Here. Researchers at Penn State recently revealed the results of a study which looked into how people were using Twitter to talk about products. For Companies, perception is key when it comes to brand building. Many businesses currently fear how people on Twitter perceive their products.  According to this study, companies may not have to worry about Twitter [...]

Is it what you say…or where you say it?

I’m sure you all know by now the controversy surrounding the recent emotional outbursts of  Kanye West and Serena Williams.  Not to mention South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson, and the ever lovely fits of rage from no-named reality-tv stars.  I guess that’s why VH1 and MTV aren’t so much about music videos anymore as they [...]

Facebook Makes You Smarter, So Twitter Makes You Dumber?!

Scoops Here. I guess parsing out my time in favor of Facebook will do me well according to psychologist Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling in Scotland. Apparently using Facebook makes you smaaaat (that was connoting the Boston accent if you did not pick up on that), and using Twitter destoys a few [...]

Who says social media is cheap–Get Twtapps for $500,000!

Scoops Here. Twtapps is a true testament of the growing value of social media and the applications being developed for it. According to Read Write Web, Twtapps founder and developer Felipe Coimbra cited insufficient resources and in laymans terms he sick sick of coming up with more applications. Currently, around 83,000 Twitter users have used [...]

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