From the monthly archives:

November 2009

10 Twitter Users Share Why They Use Twitter

Nov. 20, 2009

As a follow-up to my December 2008 blog post describing Twitter in 14 ways, and countless articles since, I feel there is no better time than the present to revisit the question why people use the social media tool.
Why do you have a Twitter account? I realize this may be self-serving, but consider me curious. [...]

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Social Change, Me, and My Mustache

Nov. 19, 2009

What started as a few days last week opting not to shave led me to remember Gradon Tripp’s desire to fight prostate and testicular cancer and Mike Schneider’s video of shaving as part of a 10-year-old global movement every November “to change the face of men’s health” called Movember.
Purposefully choosing not to grow a mustache [...]

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How to Write Blog Content For Your Readers (or Why Metrics are So Important)

Nov. 18, 2009

Note: This blog post is graphic-intensive. If you can not see images below, you may want to visit the blog directly.

The most important aspect to consider when writing blog posts is you.
I’d be lying if I wrote anything different.
You.
When I write blog content, I keep of a mental log of who you are, what keeps [...]

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Why Unfriending is Important This Year

Nov. 17, 2009

You may not appreciate when someone unfriends you on a social networking site, but the action verb has a lexicographical importance to the New Oxford American Dictionary which announced unfriend as its 2009 Word of the Year.

From the press release:
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary [...]

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Do You Care That @BarackObama Doesn’t Tweet?

Nov. 16, 2009

The blogosphere is abuzz in the wake of President Barack Obama’s statement in Shanghai last night that he doesn’t use Twitter, nor has ever typed a tweet. MG Siegler at TechCrunch reacts and opines:
This is interesting considering the Internet, and social media in particular, was considered a large part of his ascension to the Presidency. [...]

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12 Million People Tweet 27.3 Million Times

Nov. 16, 2009

…every day.
Think about that for a moment. Brian Solis indicates this is comparable to the number of Yahoo instant message status updates sent every month, with the caveat Yahoo has five times more users than Twitter.

Swedish research firm Pingdom tracked every Twitter message sent from October 21 to November 11 and published their findings that [...]

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Finish Her Sentence Anonymously

Nov. 15, 2009

You can see what Sarah Morgan wrote by clicking here.

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