Is social media changing the world?

New post at Kilgannon Says: We’re in the midst of some rather transformative times. Especially if you happen to live in the Middle East.  Some are crediting Facebook and Twitter as key catalysts that helped to overthrow a 40-year dictatorship in Egypt. This phenomenon has spread throughout the Arab world…

Browser based Twitter apps. A down-and-dirty review.

Image via Wikipedia Note: A few weeks ago a published a review of desktop Twitter apps. Desktop Twitter apps are great but browser based clients are pretty darn robust these days too and certainly worthy of your consideration. A colleague of mine was recently having problems with her AIR app…

27 tips for business tweeters. Or a Twitter cheat sheet.

Image via CrunchBase A few months ago a client asked for a cheat sheet on how to uses social media tools. Here's more or less what I gave them on Twitter. See something important missing, let me know and I'll add it. Note: This list isn't a substitute for a…

Managing the noise. What to do about Twitter overload.

Image via Wikipedia So you have already drunk the Twitter Koolaide. You've been tweeting awhile and now you have a few hundred followers and are following more people than you can keep track of using Twitter.com on your browser. And you're beginning to feel that you're probably not getting all…