Week 6 - Twitterdum and such

Before I start with anything else, if you haven't done the websort for one on my projects — please go to the following website to do the websort.  It would be much appreciated.

http://websort.net/s/A38653/


Ok. Sometimes you can't tell if something is a fad or a trend.  Supposedly, a fad is something that comes and goes whereas a trend is something that is here to stay. Barbie (TM) was a fad that became a trend — I guess.  And Tickle-Me Elmo will hopefully be a fad that stays a fad — who knows?

But I recently read the "Twitter for Dummies" book by Fitton, Gruen and Poston, and I looked at the Glossary — trying to find all of the different entities that have been spurned by Twitter.  Here's an incomplete list in no particular order:

CoTweet, Digsby, EpicTweet, ExecTweets, StockTwits, FollowFriday, FriendorFollow, FriendFeed, HelloTxt, HootSuite, LocalTweeps, Mr.Tweet, 100TXT, 140Story, PocketTwit, SecretTweet, TalkShoe, TinyTwitter, TipJoy, Topify, Tweecious, TweetDeck, TweetGrid, Tweetie, TweetLater, Tweetree, TweetScan, Tweetups, Twellow, 12Seconds, Twestival, Twhirl, twInfluence, Twinkle, Twistory, TwitBacks, TwitPic, TwitScoop, TwitStory, Twittelator, Twitterati, TwitterBerry, TwitterFeed, TwitterFon, TwitterFox, TwitterGrader, Twitterific, TwitterLocal, Twittermail, TwitterPatterns, Twitter-speak, Twittervision, Twobile, twoof, TwtVite. . .

Twell,  how was that?  That's alot of secondary digerati to digest.  I am thinking, at about three and a half years-old, Twitter has gone from a fad to a trend — most definitely.  I have been tweeting for a couple of weeks and without really trying I have 14 followers, and I am following 17 people.  I'd like to tell you that I have had the time to go through all of the above, but I am afraid I haven't.  Will I?   Probably not, but I am definitely going to pursue the ones that use marketing ploys.  And there are some fascinating ones that allow you to manipulate the Twitter API — so those I'll check out.

But this week I have spent most of the time working on the actual text of the printed version of the  Freelance Guide Project (aifreelance.com), and we made alot of progress with that. And I gove a shout out and props and thanks to Brian Bram, Michelle Yaiser and Tom Gentz for checking content for me — I really appreciate it!  And thanks to Steve Rudolfi who is the most excellent project manager in training. Check out his blog and his side of the story — it's great! 

I  also met with one of my clients this week — Carol Zander, who is the Bralady! (http://www.braladybiznewsletter.blogspot.com) and discussed how Twitter could increase her marketing mix.  We talked about a Twitter strategy and I showed her how to connect Twitter with Blogger.  She is on her way.

I thought I hit my reading-threshold  (I know that's not really a word, but hey — I am on sabBOBical — and you get what I mean), but I am going to try to tackle a few more books (in this order):  

• "The Social Life of Information" by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid; 
• "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" by Dan Asriely;
• "Remix" by Lawrence Lessig; 
• "Code: Version 2.0" by Lawrence Lessig;
• "Thinking with Type" by Ellen Lupton, and quite possibly 

That's it for now.  I am a bit tired — I admitted to someone this week that I thought that the work I have been doing for this sabbatical is a bit more tiring than regular work.  Hmmm.  I think I have to look at the leaves next week.

Last Week's Daily Events 

Friday, October 16, 2009 

• Project Management Meeting:  With John Lay, Carreer Services, and Steve Rudolfi — we accomplished much and hope to meet again on October 30th
  
• Meeting with Steve Rudolfi: Freelance Guide — we completely reformatted the FLG docuemnt and setup style sheet for it
  
• Wrote this blog
  

Monday, October 19, 2009  

• Student CD Project: Edits
• Email-a-rama 
• Content Expert Requests:  Brian Bram, Sam Roache, Michelle Yaiser. 
• Freelance Guide: Edits
  

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 

• Client Meeting: BraladyBiz
• Twitter Research
• Freelance Guide: Edits
• Websort: Sent out  invitations
  

Wednesday, October 21, 2009  

• Websort: Sent out  more invitations 
• LinkedIn Work 
• Freelance Guide: Edits
• Content Expert Requests: Tom Gentz  

Thursday, October 22, 2009   

• Freelance Guide: Edits
• Websort Work
• Content Expert Requests: Dave Griffin, Joe Griffin 

 C'est tout!