Tag Archive - microblogging

There is such a thing as a free lunch

October 20, 2009
Marketing
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been trying to save some cash during this economic crisis, downturn, whatever you call it.  In fact, my friend and I were recently talking about how we need to take on window shopping as a new hobby.  Well, here’s a cheap (free) way to cure our shopping blues since being broke is the new black.

Meet Kashless.  If Craigslist and Twitter had a love child, this site would be it.  It is the first online marketplace to solely offer postings of free items in the Seattle area.  You can either post directly with Kashless or via third party listings from sites such as  Craigslist or Freecycle.  Using their microblogging design, you can search by categories, by neighborhood, or by distance.  They make the process seamless from bookmarking options to e-mail notifications, but the unique aspect of Kashless is their ability to narrow down your product and save your search preferences.  That’s target advertising (without really being advertising) at its best!

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To Twitter or not to Twitter, Part Deux

September 3, 2009
Marketing
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If you have heard about #AmazonFail, #Oprah, #HudsonRiverCrash in the past few months, you probably fall into one of these categories:

  • Taking the leap onto the Twitter bandwagon
  • On the cusp of joining Twitter but don’t want to manage another social networking site
  • Maybe considering it, but still too much effort to tell if I’ll be onboard
  • Twitter still sucks

Haters, don’t say I didn’t warn you. But thanks for keep me motivated.

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To Twitter, or not to Twitter

January 29, 2009
Marketing
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As the Jackson 5 once sang: Tweet, Tweet, Tweet-Tweet

This week, I started using Twitter after almost a year long hiatus with a few attempts in between.  And now, I’m absolutely hooked.

During my first class in the MCDM program, my professor encouraged us to play around with Twitter.  As a long time social networking site user and a web 2.0 advocate, I’d self proclaimed myself as an early adopter to new tools and gadgets.

Boy, was I wrong.

It was difficult for me to understand why I would feel the need to update my exact whereabouts practically every minute of the day, especially when I already had a tool that worked just perfectly fine.  I had been tailoring my Facebook updates to express my two cents to a closed group of social networks.  Besides, status updates become more fun when you have an audience reading your daily rants and thoughts and commenting back with stamps of approval or comic relief.

Then, I discovered that Twitter is quite different than a just fancy version of Facebook status updates.

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