Me and Twitter

I am a passionate user of Twitter and especially in the last year I learned a lot about how to use it and made reliable connections with other Twitter users.

However, I have a couple of frustrations about:

- Wish I can have more interactive tools, mostly chat-wise, mostly for the lists you are in.

- 140 words it's a good ratio, but maybe in some cases the conversation is strictly limited.

- The new Twitter looks very clumsy and hard to manage properly.

- Excepting this new Twitter, there are not too much features introduced regularly, despite a need for improvement.

- I wish that, following Facebook's example, to restrict permanently the access to my information of somebody I blocked. It's fair like that, isn't it?

That's all for now. I should prepare my list of #FF.

Do you still rely on blogging?

If you'll ask me, I will definitely answer "yes"! Twitter and Facebook are useful tools, but nothing more than tools, for widespreading information on facts and figures and ideas. But still, you need to provide a reliable base and this is made of your coherent ideas that you can express and introduce on your blog(s). I still trust it!

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Zootool

No, it is not a social networks for funky pets...Not at all.

Zootool is a collaborative network collecting, organizing and sharing favorite images, videos and links all over the Internet, created in Germany, but speaking English. After building your profile, you can share links from other platforms as Delicious, Facebook, FriendFeed, Tumblr or Twitter. For the real geeks, it is available as application for Smartphones.

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The Social Network, the movie

Image by jdlasica via Flickr//Mark Zuckerberg, in the movie of his life

I avoided for a long time to see the movie about Facebook - or rather, about Facebook founder - because I am more interested in the phenomenon than in the personality. If not Mark Zuckerberg, somebody needed to create this network, as it was in the air of our time: a new generation, new skills and needs. A documentary movie was for me more tempting than an artistic movie.

And, I was right. The movie is focused on Zuckerberg's personality - his conflictual and clumsy social connections of the creator of a popular social network -, with some vague suggestions about the ways in which academia faced the online challenge, or the need to reconsider the intellectual property. From the artistic point of view, I couldn't see anything memorable.

But I don't regret I've seen the movie because I realize now what I will expect from a real documented production about social media and its influence on our times.

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On Pictures and Words

Image via Wikipedia//The new connectivity

As I am managing several Facebook, Twitter accounts and a couple of blogs - in fact I feel sometimes as a big media owner, even my empire is a very not-for-profit and it keeps me so busy than I do not have time to appear on TV - I am trying to focus on a lot of details, in my efforts (not too desperate yet, but though...) for increasing visibility and getting some profit.

One important aspect is the personalization. Trying to find for each account and blogs representative pictures. It will be far too easy to simply post a picture of myself (which I did only in the case of my personal accounts). My idea is to find the right visual representation for each of them. Not posting a picture is, in my opinion, decreasing the visibility and the seriosity, as you might look as a spammer' account.

Another aspect is updating. As my financial resources are not generated - by now - by this social media activities, and beyond the job I have my family, a very intense social and cultural life and lots of other interests, I have to portion more than perfectly my time for answering to posts, planning the writing schedule, documenting for articles. Sometimes I have to rest a bit, but this is a very insignificant part of my life, anyway. But, as far as I started this "job", I have the ambition of updating at least once the week all my outlets. And by updating I understand more than posting some links I am reading - which I do to, but trying to offer more than this. And, by now, I think that I was able to keep a certain balance.

What I do not like is when I see people who limited their presence at opening an account, adding friends - on Facebook - or occupying a virtual space - on blogger or Twitter - and nothing else. I have, for example, a couple of academics on my Facebook list of friends. All of them, I know, are very active in their real life. Some are having thousand of friends on Facebook. But, they hardly post a link to an interesting article or a comment in months. What is so difficult, when opening the Facebook for confirmation of 100 friends request, to post a link? It rather a matter of creating habits and using some very valuable tools in connecting with people. The same with Twitter. You have new followers - you are announced about this in your Inbox ? If you don't have time to greet them by "names", at least have daily or every two days or when you are entering your e-mail - a short update greeting them. It is not killing your time and it is so so easy.

Happy networking day!