Generally I feel that “Twitter analysis†is a bit of an oxymoron – it’s missing the qualitative benefits of the social connections that are made offline and/or long term.  I am, however, interested in sharing content that my core audience will find interesting.  Short of polling 1,600 people, the easiest […]
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Update 5/11/11: Before you use Formulists please read my update and the comments at the bottom of this post. Call it a 2011 New Years Resolution if you must but one of my goals for this year is to do a better job of managing my Twitter feed. Â I’m trying […]
Here’s the post I wanted to write for new Twitter users – not the step by step I outlined in “Twitter 101†(which discusses account setup). The bottom line is that, for me, Twitter is all about conversations. As always I’d love to hear your feedback either @MattSolar, by posting […]
As much as I enjoy it I’ve been horrible about posting to my blog lately, and I’m blaming Twitter. I find that I’m spending a lot more time on Twitter these days and the speed (of information transfer and to post) and audience size just blow away my blog. On […]
Increasingly I’m finding that I’m spending more time on Twitter and less time on my blog and I suspect I’m far from the only one. Blogs are great as a repository of information or in depth research but, for me, Twitter has become a much more efficient method of reading […]
By this point it should be pretty obvious that I love the outdoors and if you haven’t checked, about half of the people I follow are somehow related to outdoor-oriented sports.  Blending my passions of the outdoor industry and social media is amazing; since I can’t be outside 100% of […]
Some of these might sound obvious but a lot of them seem to be ignored by companies on Twitter. Most will probably state that they don’t have the resources to dedicate to Twitter but they need to make them. A social media manager is just as important as a customer […]
This is an absolutely terrific piece on the historic impact of social media by NYU professor Clay Shirkly. It’s certainly easy to forget about the power of social media when we take it for granted and use it for ‘poking’, and posting pictures of, friends. Shirkly states that, “The moment […]
A quick background to this post; this morning several friends and I had a conversation spawn about the value of Twitter to the masses. The discussion started between myself (@mattsolar) and my close friend, Pete (@petekuhn). Since we’re both bearish on Twitter’s value I decided to rope in another good […]