Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains
I like the Social Oomph site (formerly Tweet Later) and have posted to all my Twitter accounts from that app. It does several awesome things. First, you can pre-schedule Twitter postings. I ran a series on one of my accounts to promote one of my blogs by promoting other people’s blogs and sites (on that topic) as “site of the day”. I was able to schedule two months worth of daily “site of the day” postings, then walk away and not think about the project. Social Oomph took care of doing all the postings.
Say you have a brainstorm at 2 am but you know that most of the Twitter users you’d like to share with are going to be online at 10 am… you can place your tweet in the Social Oomph site and it will be posted when you want it to be, rather than immediately.
The site also allows you to vet all new followers - a truly convenient feature, and it will send you an email whenever someone tweets about a keyword you need to know about… your name, for example.
Well, here’s where I got in trouble. I set the vetting section to not automatically follow all people who wanted to connect with me, but then the site changed hands, and names, and apparently my setting got reset along the line. I ended up getting a lot of undesirable people connecting to my Twitter accounts, and I kept finding them cluttering my home page, and deleting and blocking them, wondering how they ever got followed because I’d never heard of them before!
I’m just saying… Social Oomph is a great service, but beware! If you want to use Twitter as a social networking site to contact your dearly loved friends, you’re going to want to tell Social Oomph that you do NOT want every new follower to be automatically followed back.
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TwitPic was the top choice, so I had to try it out.
On top of Mt. Shasta, Northern California.
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” — Aristotle
I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of Tweet Later lately. It is exactly what I needed to manage the six Twitter accounts I have.
My interests are so varied, I decided to divide them up. My main Twitter account is Linda Jo Martin, which I reserve for tweeting about writing and my content writing, which I mainly do at Squidoo.Com. My other sites are niches… nothing commercial and no spam… but niches just the same. For example on my Linda’s Herbal Twitter account I connect with other people who are into herbs and natural healing. On my Bigfoot Sightings account I network with other Bigfoot researchers. Get the picture?
My other Twitter accounts are FightCPS (family rights), Geniyyah (energy healing), and Independent Homeschooling.
With all these Twitter accounts to manage, I’ve found two applications that are very, very helpful. The first is Twhirl… which you are probably already familiar with … and the other is Tweet Later. With Tweet Later I can set up tweets early in the day and have them automatically posted all day long. Also I can vet my new followers there for all accounts… a very handy tool.
One more thing … Tweet Later will email out keyword alert notices. Just set up your keywords and then, should someone mention something I want to be aware of such as “Bigfoot sighting”… I’m emailed with the information once daily. I like that!
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The search for a plugin that will transform WordPress into a project management system that’s better than BaseCamp. Intriguing!
I just looked out my window and saw a swallowtail butterfly enjoying one of my nasturtiums, a scrub jay pecking at a fallen plum, and a little white butterfly examining the lemon balm. I’m so glad all these flutterbys are having a good time in my garden!
Today I’ve been thinking about refining the focus of this blog to make it more useful to me. I’m going to start my own flutterbys… stopping by this blog to record social media information for my own edification. Instead of trying to impress anyone else, I want to use this space for keeping notes to self…
So there it is. A refined focus and a new start.
“Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of answered prayer.” — Dr. Joseph Murphy