Why microblogging could be the next email

Posted by Zeta Editorial on: 2009-04-15 02:27:53

Self SEO > Online Promotion Articles

There's no doubt about it: 2009 is the year Twitter broke. But what's the point of microblogging and how can it help your business?

You know something’s hit the mainstream when Phillip Schofield mentions it on This Morning. But Twitter’s apparent overnight success took the best part of three years.

A prototype of the microblogging and social networking tool was built in two weeks in March 2006 and was launched publicly that August. A programmer called Jack Dorsey came up with the idea when he was writing software that provided realtime status updates for taxi companies. Twitter eventually became a company in May 2007. It’s estimated that over 1.78 million people are now signed up to the service, compared to just 100,000 a year ago. The company last year turned down a $500 million buyout offer from Facebook.

Its genius is in its simplicity. Users are able to publish messages of 140 characters or less via the web or mobile phones. Collectively, these form a microblog, such at this one from Zeta. Messages - or ‘tweets’ - are read by ‘followers’, who subscribe to your posts and have them delivered to their own Twitter homepage.

The result is a stream of updates on everything from what someone’s doing for lunch to the fact that they’ve just been elected US president.

Twitter may be the best-known microblogging tool but it’s far from being the only one. Facebook’s status updates and wall posts make unwitting microbloggers out of its users. Its recent redesign was a direct response to the growth of Twitter.

Tumblelogs such as tumblr and Soup extend the short-form format to include multimedia content. YonklyJaiku offers an open source take on the genre. Plurk provides a quirky, timeline-based aesthetic. And Yammer, which won last year’s TechCrunch50, is specifically designed to provide an internal microblogging tool for businesses.

With email becoming an increasing burden on people’s time, microblogging offers a compelling business communication solution. “Web 2.0 evangelists… say it can facilitate an open-ended corporate culture that values transparency, collaboration and innovation,” says Forbes.com. “Most important, it can be an effective way to build a customer-centric organisation that not only communicates authentically but also listens to customers and learns from that interaction.”

A tool such as Twitter is ideal for following news on a specific topic or for asking questions of your peers. Meanwhile, being able to update your status on the move benefits employees who need to keep in regular contact with one another: a single text can generate an update that is immediately fed to an entire group of co-workers. With the wealth of access points that microblogs offer - from Firefox add-ons to iPhone applications - it’s an elegant way to keep people connected, irrespective or time zones or technology.

The business-focused Yammer allows companies to host the software themselves but this is the exception, not the rule. Most microblogging services live in the cloud, with all the benefits - and problems - that entails. Twitter, for instance, has grown so rapidly that its servers frequently keel over, resulting in the familiar Fail Whale screen.

It’s also worth considering that microblogging is, essentially, an extremely accessible form of publishing and that your posts can appear in Google search results and across the web. It’s something that this Twitter user resolutely failed to remember, with the result that it cost him his job. There’s also the risk that, if not managed correctly, microblogging serves only to add to your digital clutter - not reduce it.

For many of us, microblogs still have the novelty value of the latest web-based cultural phenomenon. But, like email, tools such as Twitter are destined to become a central part of our working lives. Even if you do use them to update colleagues on your lunch plans.

Coming soon to zeta.net: an exclusive interview with Yammer CEO David Sacks

Original Article

Print this article

Tell a friend

User comments:

bbelviss56 - Posted on: 2010-08-26 04:12:00

Tumblelogs such as tumblr and Soup extend the short-form format to include multimedia content. YonklyJaiku offers an open source take on the genre. Plurk provides a quirky, timeline-based aesthetic. And Yammer, which won last year’s TechCrunch50, is specifically designed to provide an internal microblogging tool for businesses.
___________________________
Keyring
Birthday Gifts

royal - Posted on: 2010-09-28 13:15:13

Fantastic Article!
I appreciate the information which you offered here in your post. I am glad to found such informative article which is really good read for me.

Thanks for sharing information!
Penny Auction Software

lakota6418 - Posted on: 2010-11-11 10:34:54

A prototype of the microblogging and social networking tool was built in two weeks in March 2006 and was launched publicly that August. A programmer called Jack Dorsey
____________________
Get Motivated Seminars

seotwitter - Posted on: 2010-11-27 05:18:33

Microblogging has become one of the best ways to effectively drive a large amount of targeted traffic to your website.<a href="http://www.webmarketingboom .com" target="_blank">Twitter marketing</a> is by far the easiest and most popular form of social media marketing.

You can grow your following fast and easy with the help of <a href="http://www.webmarketingboom .com/twitter-marketing-software.html" target="_blank">Twitter marketing software</a> tools that help you manage your accounts and optimize your campaigns.

yanyaner - Posted on: 2010-12-31 02:36:07

What is your plan for the coming New Year? If you still have no good idea of how to spend the vacation, I have got an idea – why not rant or shop some interesting movie Blu-ray Disc and share the happiest hours with your family?
The great picture quality of Blu-ray movie could bring you unprecedented visual experiences. However, you need the help of a Blu-ray player to enjoy the Blu-ray movie. So if the device, such as your iPad, Mac, etc. does not support Blu-ray, you would get in a trouble. Luckily, Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper could help you solve all these problems.
Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper is a powerful and professional Blu-ray ripping tool to rip Blu-ray disc and common DVD to any popular video and audio formats. Plus, this Blu Ray Ripper can also help you convert most popular video files. Most excitingly, this Blu-ray Ripper enables users customize video effect, such as trimming video, cropping video frame, watermarking video, etc.
Now, this article would show you how to rip Blu-ray with this Blu-ray Ripper
Step 1: Download Aiseesoft Blu-ray Ripper and install this application in your computer
After launching the Blu Ray Ripper, you could see the interface as bellow.

Step 2: Load your Blu-ray Disc or common DVD.

Step 3: Customize video effect
Trim video length
The Blu-ray Ripper enables you to trim the video length by setting its start and end time. Or you can just drag the slide bar.

Watermark video
You can add any text/image watermark to your video and set its position and transparency.

Merge video clips
This feature enables you to merge several Blu-ray movies into one. You just need to choose the movies you need and click the “Merge” button.
Crop video frame
You can crop the video frame by cutting off the black edges and unwanted areas. Also you are allowed to adjust video aspect ratio: Full Screen, 16:9, 4:3 and Keep Original

Adjust video effect
You can adjust video brightness, saturation and contrast.

Step 4: Start converting
After all these settings, you can press the “Start” button to convert the Blu-ray ripping process.

cargodos - Posted on: 2011-01-10 02:31:34

DVD is the first choice for many people when they want to watch movies at home. It has high quality picture, different subtitles and audio tracks and most important, some of the DVD movies are more enjoyable than the cinema one.
However, when we travel, when the disc is broken, when we want to backup the DVD movies, when we want to share the movies with friends, when we want to make usage of the movie, what should we do?
Convert DVD to video video formats you need.

This guide aims to show you how to convert DVD to different video format both for windows/mac users.

Part 1: How to Convert DVD on Windows with DVD Ripper

Step 1: Load DVD
Put your DVD to your DVD Drive and click “Load DVD” button to add your DVD
Step 2: Choose Profile
Choose your output video profile from a drop-down list.
Step 3: Start Conversion

Part 2: How to Convert DVD on Mac with DVD Ripper for Mac

Step 1: Load DVD
Click the “Load DVD” button, find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your DVD-ROM, and Click “Open”.
Step 2: Choose output profile and settings
Selecting output format is really easy, you can chose your output format according to your devices players and the default setting works great.
For a veteran of digital player, you could customize your own settings by clicking “Settings” button to chose your own video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.
Step 3: Start Conversion

If you want to convert both DVD and videos, here is a really powerful DVD Converter Suite. It can help you to convert DVD and videos easily. It can also help you to backup the iPod music and videos to your computer.

oyun - Posted on: 2011-02-25 16:50:53

Good for the tips and solutions for it.

Oyunlar:Oyunlar
Oyun:Oyun

gizmo3653g - Posted on: 2011-03-12 05:16:15

A prototype of the microblogging and social networking tool was built in two weeks in March 2006 and was launched publicly that August. A programmer called Jack Dorsey
__________________
Warehouse Shelving
Pallet Racking

mariska92 - Posted on: 2011-04-08 03:17:52

Questions:
One: Do you still not to know how to rip DVD to the formats supported by your portable devices so you can enjoy DVD movies anywhere and at any time?
Two: Do you still not to know how to convert video from one popular video format to another?
Three: Do you still not to know how to backup things on your ipod to pc?

Now, it’s time to get rid of the problem. A professional Aiseesoft
DVD Converter Suite can help you solve all the problems.

DVD Converter Suite is the perfect combination of Aiseesoft DVD Ripper, Aiseesoft Total Video Converter and Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer. With it, your can enjoy your DVD/ videos on your portable devices at will!

You can take the following step-by-step instructions to start your conversion.

Step 0: Download and install Aiseesoft DVD Converter Suite.
After a short while, you can see the following interface:

On the interface, you can see three buttons: DVD Ripper, Total Video Converter and iPod to Copputer Transfer. I’ll introduce them one by one.

Step Two:
Click “DVD Ripper”, you can see the following interface:

Then you can use it to rip DVD to the formats supported by your portable devices.
1. Import DVD
Place the DVD into your DVD drive and click the “Load DVD” button to load DVD.
2. Set output format
Click "Profile" button to select the output format . You can click the "Settings" button to to set parameters of your output video such as Frame Rate, Resolution and Video Bitrate, etc.
3. Click the “Start” button.
If you want to your own conversion path, you could click “Browse” button to specify a location on your computer to save them. If you want to open the output folder, you can just click “Open”.

Tips
1. Click "Effect" to make special effect for your movie.
You can adjust Brightness, Contract, and Saturation of the movie, etc.
2."Trim" function is for you to select the clips you want to convert.
3. Cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen on your iPod using the "Crop" function.
4. This software allows you to join several DVD chapters into one clips by using "Merge into one file".

Step Three:
Click “Total Video Converter”, you can see the following interface:

With it, you can convert video from one popular video format to another easily.
1. Click the "Add Files" button and add the video files you want to convert to the program.
2. Set output video format
Click "Profile" button to select the output format for your video. You can click the "Settings" button to to set parameters of your output video such as Frame Rate, Resolution and Video Bitrate, etc.
3. Click the “Start” button.
If you want to your own conversion path, you could click “Browse” button to specify a location on your computer to save the converted movie. If you want to open the output folder, you can just click “Open”.

Tips
Aiseesoft Total Video Converter also has functions of Trim, Crop, Snapshot and merge into one file.

Step Four:

Click “iPod to Computer Transfer”, you can see the following interface:

You can use it to backup iPod video/audio files to computer, you don’t need to worry about losing anything.
1. Connect your iPod to your computer
When you plug your iPod into your computer, Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer can automatically load your iPod into it.
2. Choose files
Choose the songs, videos and other things that you want to backup at the top of the window
3. Start to transfer
The most important and the last thing you need to do are to click the “export to pc” button . After you click “export to pc” button a pop-up window will appear and with it you can choose where you place your iPod songs and videos. Few seconds later you will have your iPod songs, videos and other things on your computer.

Tips
1. To make your backup in a good order, you can click “Track Filter” button
2. For the beginner of iPod you can know the generation and name of your iPod from Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer. And you can also know how many spaces have used and how many left in your iPod.

Mac use: Aiseesoft DVD Converter for Mac

phoenixp160 - Posted on: 2011-05-12 06:13:03

Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems. In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don’t have a full offering.
_________________
HDMI Cable
HDMI Cables

phoenixp160 - Posted on: 2011-05-31 11:11:16

A prototype of the microblogging and social networking tool was built in two weeks in March 2006 and was launched publicly that August
_______________
Heathrow Taxi
Gatwick Taxi

luecjennifer - Posted on: 2011-07-12 13:41:04

Yes it is true the work done by Jack Dorsey is really appreciable and helped us to get better outputs
HDMI Splitter and HDMI Video Splitter

webmaster.mcintosh - Posted on: 2011-07-21 12:47:49

Yes you are right and your suggestions are really helpful for us.

Vaccume Tube Amplifiers
McIntosh MR87

lilycollins - Posted on: 2011-07-25 09:20:06

This really is such a amazing resource that you’re offering and also you give it away for free of charge.
--------------------------------------
online marketing company(Seo Services,PPC Services)

ankurs127 - Posted on: 2011-08-03 19:02:04

Stick Insects need to be be taken care of properly to survive. This will provide a step by step procedure to create a home and care for your Stick ooglaseren

ankurs127 - Posted on: 2011-08-03 19:03:06

Stick Insects need to be be taken care of properly to survive. This will provide a step by step procedure to create a home and care for your StickMonomania
monomania T-shirts
Graph t-shirts
Icky Baby T-shirts

ankurs127 - Posted on: 2011-08-08 05:09:38

The telescope is designed to operate at only 40 K (-233 ° C), while the real detector has to be further reduced in temperature to just 8 K (-265 ° C). This prevents the telescope from radiating its own infrared signal and lets you search the dim light of distant worlds. Kerrville Homes Computerhulp

ankurs127 - Posted on: 2011-08-08 09:26:08

Such a nice article on this website. It is rare these days to find websites with useful data . I am relieved I came upon this site.Alugar apartamentos para férias

phoenixp160 - Posted on: 2011-08-11 06:49:03

microblogging and activity streams will overtake email for enterprise possible that the message could be forwarded to other.
_______________
Web Design
Web Development

ankurs127 - Posted on: 2011-08-12 07:04:55

Madaxdaan ayaa waxay ka soo degeen Garoonka Diyaaradaha Aaden Cadde Airport ee Magaalada Muqdisho, iyadoo garoonka ay wafdigaan ku soo
dhaweeyeen madax ka tirsan bruidsfotograaf

deepakvermaseo - Posted on: 2011-08-12 13:27:54

Thanks for this post, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work!your post its very helpful and It is really informative read for everyone.

Crazy T-Shirts for Men

Cool T-Shirts for Men

leonardod - Posted on: 2011-08-12 21:59:20

It's quite hard to find a good site. And I think I am lucky enough to have come here for my personal statement. The posts are doing great and full of good insights.villas in Koh Samui
Apartments In Brussels
relatiegeschenken

ankurs127 - Posted on: 2011-08-14 07:59:31

vážního místa na parkovišti u domku strážců národního parku Ijen čeká pohodlný klimatizovaný autobus a v termosce důkladně vychlazené graciousbuy condo Bangkok
bangkok rent apartment
bangkok property

leonardod - Posted on: 2011-08-15 11:12:15

must be observed. Companionship is education, good or not; it develops manhood or womanhood, high or low; it lifts soul upward or drags it downward; it minister to virtue or Rocky T-shirt
Rock T-shirt thailand
70's Up Thailand
70's up bags

Denverise - Posted on: 2011-08-17 09:15:58

We are the Manufacturers, Exporters and Suppliers of Jojoba Oil in India. Production of Natural and Refined Jojoba Oil is effective for your Hair and Skin. Jojoba Oil offers Moisturizing, Cleansing, Conditioning of your body. It is also used in baby care.

Jojoba Oil Manufacturer India

Next page >>>

Post New Comment

This site does not allow anonymous comments. Registered members can login to participate. Registration is free and takes only a few seconds