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By: Do you need a Facebook Page, or Group? | Custom Web Design and Management by GingerWench

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:26:40 +0000

[...] don’t “Do Facebook” This is probably the main concern my clients come to me with. They know they need to have a presence on Facebook, but they’re not sure how to go about it. When they go to the homepage of Facebook, [...]

By: Sudha Jamthe

Sudha Jamthe — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:23:47 +0000

I liked your nice article, neat focused summary like a powerful tweet.

I came here from a pingback to my Mashable article about twitter tools. Glad you found it useful.

Best,
Sudha

By: Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:49:53 +0000

Yes, thanks for reminding me, Kimi… In my effort to keep the article a digestible length, I sometimes forget little details like HOW I group people using HootSuite! I have one group named “IMVU” that collects all the tweets of my IMVU friends, and one named “Design” that captures all the web design contacts that I follow.

I usually run one panel as search results for a term I’ve chosen for that particular day. If I’m working on SEO for a site I manage, perhaps my search panel will be set to capture all Tweets containing the term “SEO”, for example.

As far as monitoring the chatter for search terms in your niche? Well, that’s just priceless. Marketing research is going through a metamorphosis right along with the growth of social media. But… that’s another article topic all together.

By: Kimi

Kimi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:48:07 +0000

I use HootSuite as well and absolutely love it. It’s perfect for me since I have several Twitter accounts and they are all for very different things. Silly me hadn’t considered making a column to pull out a select group of people so I could have their updates more readily available! Thanks for the tip on that one!

I prefer Twitter over RSS feeds because the power of 140 characters is astounding. It only takes that little space to get big information out. I know what’s going on. What happened. I get it NOW and in a personal fashion! It’s much better than having to read a full web page and realize that there was no information I cared about – thus wasting everyone’s time.