How to Get Your Business Started on Twitter

Rufous Hummingbird by brendan.lally

Twitter encourages you to post short, 140-character status updates (“tweets”) that are sent to the people who have chosen to follow your messages and to the rest of the Web.

Twitter is a great way to stay connected with customers, vendors and colleagues and send brief bits of relevant information to those who . . . → Read More: How to Get Your Business Started on Twitter

What Questions Do You or Your Business Answer? Google and Jeff Jarvis Want to Know

Some Questions Can't Be Answered By Google by Mykl Roventine

A lot of marketers, PR people and corporate executives spend a ton of time and energy writing a shiny mission or positioning statement every few years.

According to author and blogger Jeff Jarvis, figuring out which questions you or your business answer is probably a more important . . . → Read More: What Questions Do You or Your Business Answer? Google and Jeff Jarvis Want to Know

Straight From the Source: Charlie Rose with Twitter CEO & Co-Founder Evan Williams

With Twitter all the rage, I thought it was interesting to hear from Evan Williams, CEO & co-founder of the company. Jump ahead to 33:35 if you don’t want to listen to Stanford University president John Hennessy (good interview though).

The main points I liked:

Twitter is different from other social networks because it’s asynchronous. I can follow . . . → Read More: Straight From the Source: Charlie Rose with Twitter CEO & Co-Founder Evan Williams

iPhones, Google and Sherlock Holmes

Statue of Holmes at Meiringen, Switzerland

This is an excerpt of Sherlock Holmes speaking to Dr. Watson in Chapter 2 of “A Study in Scarlet” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

“You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with . . . → Read More: iPhones, Google and Sherlock Holmes