Have social networkers turned into social creepers?

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Kristen Vitartas

The direction that social networking has taken over the past several years has been monumental. I wasn’t into the whole Facebook craze in college – instead the extent of my social networking knowledge didn’t extend beyond AOL’s Instant Messenger and journaling about my day on Live Journal.
Only a mere five years later, here we are [...]

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Twitter Tuesday: Twitter’s getting business friendly

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

In a blog post by Twitter this week, it was announced that Twitter has some special features in the works for businesses that tweet. The Contributors feature, which will allow multiple users to tweet on behalf of an organization, enables users to have more engaging and authentic conversations with their followers.
The feature would attach the [...]

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Polleverywhere fun and effective resource for speakers

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

For anybody that has frequent speaking engagements, Polleverywhere could be a great tool for you. Polleverywhere is an easy and effective way to poll your audiences, a la Who Wants to be a Millionaire’s, Ask the Audience feature.
Speakers can instantly poll their audience by using a poll that has been embedded into their PowerPoint presentations; [...]

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Move over TwitPic – there’s a new kid in town

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

TweetPhoto is a free photo sharing service for Twitter and Facebook. TweetPhoto lets you share photos on Twitter and Facebook, and allows interaction with any user or photo.
Like TwitPic, TweetPhoto lets users upload photos by e-mail, through the web, or on their mobile phones, but the similarities end there. 
Some new features that TweetPhoto has [...]

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Google Reader

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

Lately I’ve been hearing more and more buzz about Google Reader, but I’ve never taken the time to actually set it up and see how it can help me. This surprises me because I love Goggle – I could not live without my Gmail account, I fully utilize Google Talk, and Google is my search [...]

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Twitter 101

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

So you’re thinking of taking the leap to see just what it is that has everyone so fired up about Twitter. But you have just one question: What is Twitter?
Twitter is a micro-blogging service that started out by users answering one question: “What are you doing?” While people still post what they’re doing in the [...]

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Inside my SecondBrain

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

So, you’ve heard of Second Life, but what about SecondBrain? Don’t get the two confused – they are completely different social networking mediums.
SecondBrain is a place for you to manage all of your social media, such as bookmarks, blogs (WordPress, Blogger, etc.), and other social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and StumbleUpon, and [...]

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Organize your Twitter followers with Tweepler

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

If you’re a regular TechieBytes follower, you’re probably well aware of our (well, my) obsession with Twitter (See BigTweet; Near.ly; Twitter: The be all and end all of social media; and Diggin’ Digsby).
In keeping up with the Twitter trend, there is a brand new Twitter application on the market. Tweepler conveniently organizes hundreds of followers [...]

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Feedscrub tackles information overload

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

For those of us out there who receive our news through RSS feeds rather than spend time scouring news sites know just how fast news feeds can pile-up if left untouched for even a day.
Feedscrub actually “trains” your feeds to show you the stories that you’re interested in, and filters out the content that you’d [...]

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Share multiple links with Sharetabs

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Kristen Vitartas

Do you often have several websites that you want to share with family, friends or coworkers? How about several websites that you want to share on Twitter or other social networking sites, but don’t want to hassle with multiple updates?
Sharetabs.com provides a free service that lets you share multiple websites as tabs. Simply add a [...]

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