Tweeting for Business & Chief Tweets

Interesting read over at NYTimes, How Twitter Can Help at Work. Also, new twitter application for employee-to-employee tweeting, Yammer. Cool Video on their site.

UPDATE: Just found this cool CEOs on Twitter content over at BusinessWeek. Worth checking out and following some of these guys.

Twitter Handbook is Here!

Exciting evening development. The Twitter Handbook was just been released. Check it out, it’s free. I’m scanning through it now. What do you think, 181 pages on a 140-character medium? Looking forward to the upcoming dialogue on the handbook!

Wonder how long it will take for me and my fellow PR brethren to monetize the insights. So many vultures out there trying to sell “the twitter solution.” I can tell you one thing, being an early adopter or first in your industry to get on Twitter puts you in a good competitive position. BUT… I have a hunch that many of us, passionate strat. commers, will toss our savvy to wind and go hog wild – spamming and promoting with dollar signs in our head versus relationship development in our hearts.

Hope us PR flacks get it right this time! Personally, I’m doing my best to be smart about it. In a new world like Twitter, one must rely on his/her instincts. In my case, those instincts are deeply rooted in strat comm theory.

… Alas, when I start talking “theory,” I know it’s time to log off.

Seven Years of iPod Bliss

I’ve had two models of the iPod over the years… The not-so-trusty 3G behemoth and the 2G Nano (apple green) – still use the 2G almost every day. Love the Nike Plus running kit (on my second kit).  Very cool timeline on Gizmodo.

 

What do you think of the new Nanos?  When are they going to offer custom colors and designs. Thought Apple would get on top of that trend a while ago. I mean Nike has been offering NikeID (design your own shoe) for how many years?

Loving Google Chrome – Search Replaces Address Bar

Just saw an interesting post over at Web Strategy by Jeremiah. Helped crystallize my thinking around why I love Google Chrome so much – aside from the cool design and snappy features… 

The search box circumvents the address bar
After playing with Google’s Chrome browser for the last few days, . Google “Address” bar, which is just called a “Box” is really a search field that anything entered into it will deliver a webpage (it first looks at your historical activities) or renders Google search results, or of some other search engine of your choosing (Including Twitter search). As a result, it’s become apparently that I no longer need to enter in URLs to my browser for 99% of all tasks.

[Chrome is a nod to the future, the address bar is really a search bar. URLs will be an anachronism]

 

…is what I mentioned in Twitter with a flurry of agreements back from the community. Lori MacVittie expands further on the idea and agrees that like engine parts in our car, or IP addresses, they mainly go invisible as we drive to our real world or online destinations.