Nurturing Both Personal Brands and Corporate Brands Can Build Bottom Lines

July 14th, 2009

Meghan ButlerHow does one concurrently brand their personal and corporate selves? All too often, the distinctions between the two are not fully understood by company and employee alike. The two types of branding become wrapped together into one effort or are kept entirely separate. Personal branding and corporate branding should be treated as more »

New study on social media use of Fortune 100 companies

August 19th, 2009


A recently released study by Burson-Marsteller gives insights into Fortune 100 companies’ levels of activity and engagement in social media platforms. The results, seen here, reveal a number of noteworthy findings–definitely worth checking out for proof that social media is here to stay, or just for reinforcement that your own digital efforts are within the top tier.

Legal Tech Detective: Discover the Skeletons Hiding in Your Word Doc

December 29th, 2008

Whoever said that technology makes life easier has never sued anyone or been sued in a case involving the use of electronically stored information (“ESI”). Gone are the days where documents exchanged in discovery are pieces of paper existing your files. more »

100 Twitter Tips, Tools & Resources

June 23rd, 2009

twitter logoTwitter has exploded into a must-track resource for news, rants, consumer reports, public health, shopping deals and emerging trends. But if you’re looking for something or someone specific, how can you expect to carve out a niche and listen in on just a single thread of conversation? Select Courses’ list of 100 tips, tools and resources for Twitter research (republished below) will help you keep it all together.

Directories and People

Expand your network and locate specific tweeters using these directories.

  1. Twitterholic: Find out who the most popular Twitter users are at any given moment.
  2. Social Brand Index: Use this directory to find competitors and potential clients on Twitter.
  3. WeFollow: This directory categorizers users by tagging.
  4. Twellow: Twellow is a popular people directory for Twitter users. Search by location, friends, followers, keyword or by category.
  5. Who Should I Follow?: Let this tool help you find new friends on Twitter.
  6. Tracking Twitter: Discover which Twitter feeds are the most popular in media, entertainment and consumer products.
  7. Just Tweet It: Find people to follow by clicking on industry categories like education, domainers, aviation, filmmakers and more.
  8. twibs: With twibs, you can look up businesses who tweet.
  9. twittervision: Find random tweeters whose conversations pop up on a Google map.
  10. Twemes: Twemes is another word for hashtags, and this site follows popular subject matter and keywords.
  11. Tweeter Tags: Declare your tweets by tagging yourself on this site. Then, find other like-minded users to follow and research.
  12. Twitter Fan Wiki: This research source finds conversations, non-person Twitterers, feature requests, fakers, media and more.
  13. TwitterPacks: Find people according to their “pack” or interest group, like coaching, baby boomers, or organizing experts.
  14. Twubble: With Twubble, you can find more friends and popular Twitter users.
  15. GovTwit: Find Twitter names for government agencies and people here.

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