How to Change the World: Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter

Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Friendfeed and Bloggy are good tools for building long distance relationships. That friendship can have practical implications, just as Mr. Kawasaki is writing in his blog posting. I know lots of business people on the Internet I've never met alive. Thousands read my blogs in Finnish, Swedish and English. From my location, Loviisa and or Sotkamo, it would never be possible to have a live communication with all the people I happen to know thanks to microblogs and ordinary blogs.

How to Change the World: Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter: "Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter."

At 10:15 pm I discovered that I had not brought a Macbook power supply on the trip. I was in a hotel on Coronado Island, and early the next morning I was flying to an aircraft carrier off San Diego for an overnight visit. I doubted that the carrier had Macbook power supplies laying around, so I was in trouble. I posted a message to Twitter that I was in this predicament, and within ten minutes, five people offered to bring me a power supply. I took one of them up on the offer, and he delivered it to me within an hour.

This illustrates the practical implications of a large following on Twitter. In addition, of course, there is the sheer vanity of amassing more followers than your friends. The question, “How do I get more followers on Twitter?” is unspoken because admitting that you want more followers is to acknowledge that you don’t have many. Thus, you probably don’t need this advice, but you may “have a friend” who will find it useful."

Twitter: Where's it @ for Business? - Media Bullseye

Helge: What are the advantages of Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce? Are they a total waste of time? Does Social Media and Networking bring some business benefits?

Twitter: Where's it @ for Business? - Media Bullseye: "However, many people are finding uses in Twitter that go beyond sharing messages, making friends and staying in touch. These people are doing business. I’m one of them. I’m in the communications business, but that does not automatically mean every communication tool I try, I need to spend my life on. Twitter is one tool among several that works for me, because the community is active and I have found hundreds of people with at least some relevance to my work.

Helge: I'm not a skeptic. Social Media opens new avenues and roads to people all over the world. I wouldn't spend a minute if there wouldn't be a benefit. It's not always obvious in the beginning, how to turn the contacts to euros and dollars. The first step is always an investment and the first return is learning.

What makes Twitter Work for Business?

A social network is its members. The platform dictates how you interact, but does not limit what you can accomplish. Twitter’s limits: 140 or fewer characters per message, stripped down functionality, feed into its strengths: ubiquity, and an easy source for quick responses. So how do the above people make Twitter a business asset?

Helge: Stripped down functionality. The same goes for Basecamp and we use it for global collaboration -- as an innovation platform. I guess, Ning could take over some of the Basecamp functions.

The first, obvious answer is that people at conferences have been able to connect with each other and more importantly, with those who cannot attend. More important to event organizers than the live-blogging conversational, community aspect of this (which I wrote about previously on Media Bullseye) is the promotional side. Attendees let people know the best of what’s going on, and spread that information beyond the previously self-imposed borders of the event."

Helge: I belong to "those who can not attend" in seminars all over the globe. The Twitter and Jaiku reports give me an on-site feeling of what is happening. This is important, it saves time, money and natural resources.

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Channels 2007

2007 was a year of changes. The “channel strategy” has been in formulation and looks better than a year ago. But there is still some work to do.

I got into some new services like Twitter, Jaiku and Facebook emerging as interesting services to follow.

Twitter and Jaiku have really caught my attention delivering incredible value in discovering fresh and interesting comments, news and ideas.

Facebook has ended up as a cluttered and less important service. There is too much automation and gadgetry on FB. My Twitter and Jaiku use exploded.

Stats for Twitter

• Following 386
• Followers 205
• Favorites 1
• Direct Messages 33
• Updates 813

I expect to use it more in 2008 at least in partial replacement to some blog material. I should also mention Pownc as well. It’s not yet clear what I want to use it for. I’ve 168 contacts on Jaiku.

Facebook Applications for Amanda Lorenzani

What can we do when people have problems? Amanda is twittering and how can we respond? Do we have a solution to this problem?

AmandaLorenzani hey. geeks. invent an app that
updates facebook, twitter, pownce, jaiku, blogs, makes a coffee
and walks the dog before 9am please :-D Who is Amanda?


Helge: I guess, Amanda's problem could be solved by traditional means. She needs someone to do the work for her. We have people servicing cars, cleaning offices, maintaining our gardens, washing windows, making haircuts, etc. This leads to a very new expansion of the service industry.

Someone doing my facebooking...and Amanda's. Let me know the price and delivery time? Maybe that would give me a value indication of the work i put on socializing on the Internet. We have personal trainers. How about a personal blogger? The personal facebook-keeper has to be a part of our second life organization.