30 Alternative Tools To Twitter Search And Tracking Memes On Twitter
If you are as disappointed (annoyed) about twitter search as me, here are 30 alternatives to twitter search and to track memes on twitter.
Monitter lets you monitor the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.
Tweet Grid you can create a Twitter Search Dashboard that updates in real time.
Hashtags : Real-time tracking of tagged tweets organized though hashtags (example: #twittertools)
Quotably : Type in any username and follow conversations in a threaded format
Twitter Search (Previously Summize): is a powerful twitter conversation tracker. Search for terms by user, language, attitude, tag, to and from user
Terraminds: allows you to search people or updates for specific words
Tw* Tool Tracker, A Twitter account tracking Twitter aficionados and tool developers
Tweet Scan : Find out who’s saying what, search for replies, words, whatever by user
Tweetburner allows you to “keep track of what happens to the links in tweets shared with you, by you, by your friends and every other twitterer.” The service shortens URLs and gives you statistics
Tweetmeme : Find out “what’s hot” on Twitter (Think Techmeme in Twitterland). Updates in real-time and looks spiffy! Shows some of the most popular memes on Twitter
TweetSpeak, TweetSpeak lets you listen to tweets
TweetVolume, Lets you compare words or phrases and see how often they have been mentioned on Twitter
Twemes, Twemes is another way to tag tweets
Twerp Scan, Twerp Scan helps you find people with high ratios that might be spammers on your follow list
Twist, This service creates charts that let you compare trends in Twitter. The charts can be embedded onto your blog.
Twistori, A social experiment tracking tweets using I love, hate, think, believe, feel and wish
Twitigg is listing of popular stories submitted on twitter.com sorted by number of submitters, updated constantly. (Like Digg it)
Twits Like Me, Returns a list of Twitterers (based on your tweets) who probably share your interests.
Twitstat offers real time Twitter analytics. You need to follow @twitstat for your tweets to be recorded. Includes the Tweitgeist of frequently twittered words
Twitter Blacklist, This website provides a list of known spammers of various kinds on Twitter
Twitter Quotient, Are you a Twitter hero or zero?
Twitter Troll : Find popular terms used on Twitter in real time
Twitterboard: Displays conversation analytics, links and feeds from Twitter
TwitterBuzz, Shows the most popular links posted on Twitter over the last day
Twitterment: allows you to search for specific terms to see who has written a post with that term. You can even see a graph that shows the hours of the day when that term is used most or compare terms
TwitterPoster, is a mashup created from Twitter that provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of Twitterers
Twittertale tracks the usage of naughty words in Twitter
Twitterverse shows the most popular words and phrases on Twitter
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.
TwitterTroll is another Twitter search engine that searches tweets
12 Tools To Synchronize WordPress And Twitter
If you are a blogger and a tweeter, chances are that you are looking for ways to synchronize these two powerful platforms to use them effectively. There is more to synchronizing wordpress and twitter than sending a auto-tweet when you publish a post. Here are a selection of 12 free tools to sync twitter + wordpress.
Anwanore’s Widget allows you to post latest tweets into your blog.
RSS to Twitter will convert PHP script to feed RSS to Twitter.
Sidebar Widget allows you to create a highly customizable widget for the sidebar. This will work if your wordpress theme is widget-enabled.
SimpleTwitter enables you to easily add Twitter messages to wordpress theme.
The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
Twitter Badge is the official javascript code that allows display of badges showing your tweets.
Twitter Feed posts your blog updates to your twitter account. You must login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
Twitter for WordPress – Another plugin that creates a twitter widget.
Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
Twitter Tools – This plugin by Alex King allows you to archive your tweets, make blog posts out of them, send tweets from your sidebar and lots more.
TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
Twitt-Twoo allows you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates. Stylish and easy to customize from the options page.
Warren Buffets Secrets For Internet Marketers
I came across a story of Warren Buffett that truly inspired me (and transformed me).
Secret # 1: In my adult business life I have never had to make a choice of trading between professional and personal. I tap-dance to work, and when I get there it’s tremendous fun.- Warren Buffett
If you enjoy what you are doing, you will be able to give your 100% on it and still feel energized to do more. This will have a positive impact on your business.
Secret # 2: I just naturally want to do things that make sense. In my personal life too, I don’t care what other rich people are doing. I don’t want a 405 foot boat just because someone else has a 400 foot boat. — Warren Buffett
Don’t focus your attention on your competitors instead your energies on your goal.
Secret # 3 “I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.” – Warren Buffett
Talk only about things you really know. Keep it simple and see how well you can help people solve their problems.
Secret # 4 The best way to own common stocks is through an index fund. – Warren Buffett
Invest simply and wisely. Don’t go after every product that launches. Start small and develop one step at a time.
Secret # 5 I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit-forming. – Warren Buffett
If you want to succeed as an internet marketer, you need to have a mentor who has learnt the finer nuances of internet marketing through experience, network and passion.
Secret # 6 If you’re doing something you love, you’re more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money. – Warren Buffett
Making money isn’t the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose.
I hope this article helps you to find a better you.
Web2.0 Technology Trends 2008
Wikipedia definition of the term “Web 2.0″: It describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web. According to Tim O’Reilly:
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform”
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has questioned whether one can use the term in any meaningful way, since many of the technology components of Web 2.0 have existed since the early days of the Web.
ReadWriteWeb.com posted this presentation on 7th Mar’2008 on the Web2.0 technology trends 2008.
Later on 29th May’2008, ReadWriteWeb republished an updated version of the latest web technology trends, 2008.
Its amazing how web2.0 has changed our web experience, the ease of interaction, socializing, communication, broadcasting and data dispensing.
Are you leveraging the power of web2.0 effectively. What are your thoughts?
Keyword Monitoring With Tweetlater.com
Transparency In Marketing – Does It Work?
In the present world of (internet) marketing, we hear words like cut-throat marketing, black-hat marketing etc. But will Transparency in Marketing work?
Lynn Terry of Clicknewz.com has demonstrated that, integrity and care for customer/blog reader is more important than her commissions (which is quite contrary to the present marketing trends). I’m sure many of you can relate, if I tell you that I bought so many products that were absolutely crap. And you wouldn’t even have anybody to address the issue to.
Lynn promoted a great product and a lot of her subscribers willingly ordered through her link, including me. And many of us had issues due to technical difficulties faced by the product developers. Lynn goes out of her way, by traveling six hours to deal with resolving issues that caused trouble to her subscribers.
Leadership is about vision. But leadership is equally about creating a climate where the truth is heard and the brutal facts confronted. There’s a huge difference between the opportunity to “have your say” and the opportunity to be “heard”. The good-to-great leaders understand this distinction, creating a culture wherein people have a tremendous opportunity to be heard and, ultimately, for the truth to be heard.
When you conduct autopsies without blame, you go a long way toward creating a climate where the truth is heard. If you have the right people on the bus, you should almost never need to assign blame but need only to search for understanding and learning.
You MUST read the entire post on Lynn Terry’s blog to learn a live example demonstrating “transparency in marketing”.
Kudos to Lynn Terry,
Shri
Are You A ColorLover, Good News For You
COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. It gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
The COLOURlovers™ is highly active community and is updated with information and examples of the way colors are used in the real world — along with news articles on color trends and interviews with top creative professionals. Here everyone who is interested in the practical applications of color can find an index of color trends as they are happening. Together, they create a color trend index for the entire world provided by users of color worldwide. It’s a tool designers and artists of all kinds use to work with colors in new ways and quickly find out what’s hot and what’s not. This site allows anyone to find their inspiration for color by searching, sorting and filtering through keywords to a color scheme that interests them… or create and share your own!
It represents a new way to think about color and design. Creative professionals gather into an online community where they can share ideas about color and influence others.
Points are given for activities that share the love. A point break
down follows:
Submitting a new color: 5
Commenting on a color: 2
Comments on your color: 1
Voting for a color: 1
Votes for your color: ? equal to the vote
Submitting a new palette: 5
Commenting on a palette: 2
Comments on your palette: 1
Voting for a palette: 1
Votes for your palette: ? equal to the vote
Commenting on a profile: 2
Comments on your profile: 1
A perfect must-join community for web, graphic designer, marketers and any one who loves colors.
Shri.
Hedge-hog Marketing And Fox Marketing
A hedge-hog believes that life revolves around one big idea, one ultimate truth. If we could discover the right ideology which will lead us to end up an overnight success. If only we can get at that one idea or truth…
A fox in contrast believes that life is about knowing many things. The real world is the world we see- take it or leave it with its imperfections. Consequently, a fox’s ambition is limited to getting the majority of little things right, and then the big picture will automatically improve. As long as the bulk of little things right and then the big picture will automatically improve.
If you have been working on projecting your products online, you might have realized that, there is no one marketing stream that chanelizes your dream traffic, sales/conversions. You will need to find the right mix of various channels like seo, article marketing, social media networking, forum marketing, tech marketing, email marketing, PPC, SEM, social bookmarking n bla bla bla. You need to work with trial and error method till you find your right mix.
So what kind of marketer are you? A hedgehog marketer or a fox marketer. What are your favorite marketing channels? Are you spreading yourself too thin or not spreading at all? Would like to hear your thoughts and ideas.
Shri
50 Time Management Guidelines For Business Owners
Planning:
- Plan your time but do not let it control you.
- Assess your work – projects, tasks, etc – and allocate priorities
- Arrange and allocate your priorities into categories A, B, C and D.
- Throw away D’s.
- Keep the C’s to be read during non-priority time.
- Date and time check the Bs: they are usually important but not urgent.
- Sub-prioritize your A’s – A1, A2, A3 etc.
- Do the A1s now, then your other As – not those attractive Cs.
- Chop the big task down into smaller, more manageable pieces.
- Estimate the finishing time for a task, not just the starting time.
- Always ask the questions: what? Who? Where? Why? When? How?
Operating
- Use the “To Do” system
- Have a daily “To Do” list – particularly for your A items.
- Review your daily list, first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening and plan your priorities.
- Keep your daily “to do” list always in sight
- As you clear each item, delete it in brilliant red – just looking at a list of completed tasks makes you feel even better.
- Do not include too many items – remember the jobs which always crop up unexpectedly.
- Maintain a second to-do list for longer term tasks for those to which a date cannot yet be given.
- Transfer items form the second list to the daily list whenever relevant.
- Use the to-do lists, do not ignore them – they are probably your most powerful time management tools.
- Write it down: do not try to keep your to-do lists in your head – keep that free for actually doing them.
- Leave some time for the unexpected.
- Have the things you need constantly to hand in one place.
- Identify and concentrate on the high-yield tasks if you have the choice.
Telephone control
- Master your telephone techniques
- Plan your telephone calls: use telephone to-do lists as telephone agendas.
- If possible arrange a specific “call back” time – Do not just say “I’ll ring you later” or even worse “you ring me later”.
- If interrupted during a task by a telephone call, before answering jot down your next thoughts. When you return to your task, you will know what you were going to say next.
- Cross-index your telephone directory: name as one entry, organization as the other.
- Quickly get the purpose of the call, it is pleasant to socialize (gossip?), but it wastes a lot of time.
- Make sure you get a call-back name and number correctly: do not hesitate to ask for information until you have got it right.
Discipline
- Time management is 99% self-discipline.
- Do the unpleasant task first, or as early as possible, particularly if it is your A1. It is most people’s experience that these tasks usually turm out to be less unpleasant than was anticipated.
- Use the recommended time management techniques, they have been proved to work.
- Learn to say ‘No’
- Make sure you do it right first time: every time you have to re-try, you are wasting time.
- Avoid procrastination: get on with it.
- Set yourself deadlines for most tasks and stick to them if at all possible.
- Stick to the task you know MUST be done.
- Do one thing at a time.
- Actually have something to do: even if it is constructive relaxation.
- Always be on time yourself.
- Handle paper only once if at all possible.
- Read only what you must: the rest can be read in your ‘C’ time.
Traveling
- Do not leave it until the last minute to set off.
- Do not be a one-side-of-the-town-to-the-other commuter: plan groups of visits within easy range of each other.
- Use car cassette learning or iPod learning.
- Use voice recorder on your mobile or other device to record your thoughts while driving.
- Use train time to: read, write, brainstorm ideas with yourself
Summary
- Plan what you have to do: how it is going to be done, where it is to be done, by when it has to be done. Why has it to be done at all??
Everything you do should contribute to your self improvement and thereby the improvement of your business. So use this checklist at regular intervals to review your progress and assess how much you have acheived – you probably be pleasantly surprised.
Modified and re-written by ShriNagesh to suit contemporary entrepreneurs, Original source: “Training and development” April 1988, in an article by Leslie Rae FITD, p.40
I made this checklist available as a pdf download. If you wish to have a hard copy, you are free to print it and stick it around your workspace. Here is the link to 50 time management guidelines for business owners pdf.
You might find my blogger’s goal sheet useful. You can read the post or download the pdf too.
Good Luck
Shri
Schedule Blogposts With Postlater.com
TweetLater is now offering similar functionality to bloggers who want to better organize their time by scheduling blog posts.
With PostLater you can write several posts when you’re experiencing that energy and inspiration boost, and then drip feed them into your blog. And, you don’t need to tie up your time by being in front of the computer at the date and time you want those posts to appear on your blog.
As you know, some platforms support future-dated posts, others don’t.
What if you could schedule posts from one central console to almost any blogging platform?
That’s what PostLater does for you, whether your platform can future-date or not.
Check it out. The list of supported platforms is impressive.