Category Archives: Social Networking

Twitter Services That Are Useful To Me

Posted by Rhonda

Twitter is a social networking service that can be useful to just about anyone if it is used properly. Even if you don’t want to interact with anyone (which is a major aspect), you can utilize Twitter in other ways. There are several services or bots that you can follow that perform all kinds of functions. I have listed some of the services that I have used, currently use and would like to use.

News Services

BreakingNewsOn – Good breaking news service
breakingtweets – Good breaking news service
Twitter_Tips – Great tips and tricks for using Twitter
evernote – News, tips and tricks for my favorite note-taking software
googlemaps – News, tips and tricks for Google Maps
google – News, tips and tricks for Google
wordpressdotcom – News, tips and tricks for the WordPress blog platform
echoalert – News and podcast for fans of the series Dollhouse
heroespodcast – News and podcast for fans of the series Heroes

Bots and Tools

trackthis – Very cool service in which you can Direct Message a tracking number. It will DM you back each time the tracking timeline is updated. I tested this with a UPS package and it worked flawlessly
stackalert – Great service for developers. Interacts with Stackoverflow.com
myen – I like this service so much that I wrote a blog post on it recently. Interacts with Evernote.
timer – Reminder service. Direct message with “45 Call Bob” and in 45 min you will get a reminder to call Bob. (This service works ok, not quite as well as I had hoped)

Note: Have not tried the following as they have not followed me back, which is required to make the service work. They sound interesting.

gCal – Enables you to add events to your Google Calendar via Twitter
Tipr – Allows you to Direct Message an amount and the percentage you want to tip and it replies to you with the tip amount.
forecast – Allows you to Direct Message a zip code and it replies back with the forecast for that area.

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Until later….

Posted in Reviews/Recommendations, Social Networking

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Social Networks/Blogging and Self-Improvement

May 7

Posted by Rhonda

Social networks such as Twitter and blogging in general have many benefits to help with one’s self-improvement. Some of these benefits include goal setting and overall learning.

One of the best things to do to set a goal is to tell people about it and what better place to do that than a blog or Social Network. I am still thinking about my goals, but below are a few examples of people who have posted their goals for the world to see.

As I said above, I am still thinking about my goals, but I do use Twitter to post when I go to the gym…it a makes me feel accountable, so hopefully, I will do it more.
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Another benefit of blogs and Social Networks is the learning aspect. I follow people on Twitter that I think I will learn from. It is my main reason for using it.

The other day I posted an article showing how to transfer the column headings from a SQL Server query result to Excel. Someone had just shown me how to do it that day, so I thought I would share what I had learned. I had a comment on that blog entry that gave me a much easier way to do the same thing. This is what I mean by learning. I took that knowledge back to the person in which I learned the original way. I also posted another article with the easier way and gave credit where credit was due.

In closing, Blogging and Social Networks allow normal everyday people to learn and achieve goals. I truly believe you do not have to be a professional blogger to reap the benefits.

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Happy learning and goal setting!!!

Posted in Productivity, Self-Improvement, Social Networking