Posts Tagged ‘microblogging’

Significance of Micro Blogging in Today’s World

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Do you know the concept of micro-blogging? Well, if you are a regular visitor of Twitter, you must be strongly aware of this concept. Today’s web professionals and businessmen prefer to socially network with the intention to raise their business standards. The micro blogging concept in this context is one of the best ways that can let almost the entire world know about one’s business activities. So, if you can create blogs and update it with all your business offerings and services, you can surely fetch plenty of customers to work with.

By writing brief texts within 140 characters, people post blogs in Twitter. In fact, you can also do the same if you are willing to bring your business to limelight. Celebrities update everything regarding their social life and activities through Twitter. Well, the Facebook fever has also taken the entire universe in its domination. The concept of micro blogging is also utilized here with the intention to draw traffic and prospective customers to one’s business site.

Now, if you are planning to create a blog, you can either take help of some professional or know the right ways of making it look attractive and professional. Make sure that you write enriched contents with effective keywords, images, videos and links. So, if you are planning to widen your business channels, micro blogging can help you do so.

Seven Applications of Twitter for Education beyond Books

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Enough of SEO! All my previous posts are related to SEO in direct or indirect ways. I have written a lot about the application of social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook in search engine optimization and social media marketing. This time, my focus is on the use of Twitter in education. Twitter is a technology tool of online education for modern day learners to connect with other students and teachers around the globe. Data gathering, communication with experts and information exchange are the ends of Twitter activity.

Global Connections –You can make connections across geographical boundaries on Twitter. Follow Twitter users who are from different geographical locations of the world and different academic backgrounds. It will attribute a global dimension to your Twitter profile.

Information Exchange – Twitter is a platform for international information exchange programs. Have online discussions and exchange information with your intercontinental connections on Twitter, once they start following you. Get to know about the culture, tradition and atmosphere of their cities.

Creative Boost – A tweet is a string of 140 characters. You should have a creative bent of mind to sum up a piece of information within a limit of 140 characters. It delivers a creative boost to the writer in you. It will help you utilize your creative potential to write pithy and punchy taglines or concise ad copies in the advertising industry.

Make an Online Survey – Students can conduct a survey on any current affair, historical event or scientific issue among their Twitter followers using Twitter Poll at twtpoll.com. Once the data is collected from the survey, you can analyze the data, draw graphs and develop data tables to build a picture of the survey topic.

Improve Vocabulary – Select a word and tweet it among your Twitter followers requesting them for synonyms, antonyms and homonyms of the word. Gather all responses and enrich your vocabulary. It helps you keep in touch with the network. Isn’t it a wise use of the social network?

Communicate with Experts – Build a network of experts or professionals on Twitter from different walks of life. Develop questions of 140 characters and tweet the questions to them, if you are doing a project on some issue. Response from the experts in your network will add value to the project.

Share with the Network – The give-and-take policy applies on Twitter too. Share your disciplinary topics on English, Math, Science, History and others with the network of other students via tweets. It will keep you followed by them on Twitter.

Thus, the application of Twitter goes beyond social peripheries to online teaching and learning. So, parents should not have any reasons to prevent their children from using the social networking site. The use of such online learning tools as Twitter is a breath of fresh air to the students who at times get bored with reading books.

Microblogging – the Latest SEO Phenomenon for Brand & Business Promotion

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

What is next to blogging? The answer is definitely microblogging. The idea of microblogging is good for those who are in utter poverty of time. It is gaining momentum among not only social butterflies but also professionals owning business sites. Social butterflies make use of this activity to keep up with their online fans and followers while business website owners take fancy to it to promote their products and promulgate the latest service news among their customers. Microblogging has captured the essence of search engine optimization for website promotion. You can optimize microblogs with SEO measures to market your business and promote your brand on microblogging sites.

Twitter one of the most popular social networking sites has become a prominent platform for microblogging. It has grown into a most haunted hub of microbloggers. Much smaller than a blog in size and strength, a microblog can be a comment or a keyword-based micro-description on some product. Twitter followers are nuts on twitting, a microblogging activity in vogue. Besides Twitter, a few social networking sites are there to serve as microblogging platforms with a wad of features and functions. To name among them are FriendFeed, Tumblr, Plurk, Yammer, Sweetter 2.0, Jaiku, Microblogger and Spotjots.

Yahoo too is going to jump to the bandwagon of microblogging in English language countries with its Yahoo Meme in English. This step of Yahoo to draw the masses is sure to put Yahoo in stiff competition with Twitter, Tumblr and other microblogging sites. Yahoo Meme allows users to share text, images, music, videos in the form of microblogging. Moreover, you can specify your microblogs with a title optimize them with keywords and tag them with an avatar.

Then, go with the wind to catch this innovative networking fancy and share with me how you do feel.