Posted by Juanita Reyes on July 4, 2010
If you have ever pondered about the best twitter brands out there and the individual sectors from which they come from, then hopefully this post will manage to answer your question. Some of the biggest names choose to utilize Twitter because, unlike other social platforms, it gives them the powerful chance of connecting with their consumers.
Chevrolet is one of the best twitters in the vehicle business. They have opted for Twitter in order to introduce themselves more to the general public, to get familiar with clients’ thoughts about their brands and, why not, to even clarify myths. Ford is another important name from the cars industry that finds this system extremely useful and helpful in generating feedback from clients. What the official Ford tweeter says found incredibly empowering about this was the humanizing characteristics of this media strategy.
For the travel sector, twittering can prove to be extremely productive. The best twitter found it to be the fastest, least expensive and easiest way for a business to update their offers and also make sure that they are seen by a large number of people.
But probably, more than any other sector, the entertainment industry has to gain from twittering, as it is the business that generates the biggest amount of interest from the audience. Like the best twitter perceived it, twitter is the absolute easiest way for actors, suppliers and others as such to get their names and faces known, to connect and build long-long lasting relationships with their respected fans and for casting directors to find candidates.
Twitter could very well be, from this point of view, a real haven for the entertainment industry. This is due to the overpowering exposure that this kind of network offers. Moreover, when it comes to the effects of exposure (profit, interest, reputation, facilitates communication), this network delivers.
Like other companies, the best twitters from the entertainment industry find this activity extremely joining and compelling, but the biggest advantage that thy mentioned was the humanizing element. This social connection enables them to put aside the business-like vocabulary and show their ability to communicate casually, like in a normal conversation.
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Posted by qpen on December 5, 2009
Social media continues to move mainstream, with social media terms entering the common lexicon. This point was driven home on Tuesday, as CNN.com reports that the New Oxford American Dictionary has named “unfriend” as its Word of the Year, beating out a field heavy with
technology-based terms such as “netbook,” “hashtag” and “sexting.”
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” said Christine Lindberg, a language researcher for Oxford’s U.S. dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.”
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines “unfriend” as a verb that means to “remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.”
As you might expect, news of the honor awarded to the word “unfriend” spread quickly across social media sites, and not all of it was positive. Many people were upset that the New Oxford American Dictionary selected “unfriend” and not the similar term “defriend.”
“Frustrated that ‘unfriend’ is the word of the year. It’s definitely ‘defriend’ when referencing Facebook,” one Twitter user wrote, adding the hashtag #dictionaryfail.
Posted by Jim Slate on November 30, 2009
Social networking technology has changed the way communication works. There are a variety of new levels of interaction that are possible. This is not only connecting people in new and unique ways, but it is also allowing people to tell stories across a whole new range of media. On the cutting edge of this new technology, creative individuals are experimenting with the basic elements of the story itself.
Roleplay is an act of imagination, where you gather a group of people together, and each one assumes the role of a character. Then they act as that character, in order to further the story. Everyone adds their own perspective to the piece, and the resulting story is made up of the whole.
Social networks such as facebook were created to allow people to tell stories. You are supposed to use them to tell the story of you real life, through the use of pictures, videos, and written submissions in a variety of forms.
This ability to tell stories can, with a little tweaking, be used to tell fictional stories. You don;t necessarily have to talk about yourself on these networks, you could sign up as just about anyone or anything you can imagine.
The story can then be told and expanded on through a series of interactions with others on the site. These can be other fictional characters, or they can be real people. The addition of extra people to the story breathes new life and energy into the tale, invigorating it.
The problem is that most of the big social networking sites expressly forbid their members from creating fictional characters. They want the site to remain a haven for real people to interact. This is often stated in their terms of service,a nd violation can result in your character being banned from the site. While this rule is usually not strictly enforced, its presence alone is enough to hamper most roleplaying endeavors.
http://www.RolePages.com is a community that was created to fill the void in creative social networking. Similar in structure to facebook, the site describes itself as being a social network for fictional characters. Members are encouraged to sign up as anyone that they can imagine, and then to tell the story of their character through a series of forums, blogs, chat rooms, as well as through the submission of pictures, videos, and audio files.
Social networks are a new frontier in the art of communication. Using them as a medium for telling stories is a trend that is just starting to catch on. As the sophistication of the technology increases the ability to create fictional works using these tools is only going to improve.
To read more about this subject visit RolePages.com an in character roleplaying social network where you can sign up as anyone or anything that you can imagine. There you will find more information on facebook roleplaying, as well as an eclectic cast of members including werewolves, vampires, fairies, psychics, aliens, madmen, monsters, demons, and anyone else that you can imagine.
Posted by Dr. Tom V. Morris, PhD on September 12, 2009
Unless one has been asleep or living on the moon, they know of Twitter. It has evolved into the world’s greatest cocktail party, and no one has to clean up afterwards, or even pay the tab. It’s the new electronic campfire we sit around to talk and laugh and even sing. It’s an endless conversation like no other, and it’s just starting to pick up steam. We’ve all heard about how news breaks on Twitter before it hits any of the traditional journalistic outlets, and how it’s being used by emergency responders in difficult situations around the world. But the potential overall cultural impact of Twitter is just beginning to be evaluated and processed. Twitter is the new water cooler for the creative class — the social break room for people who don’t work in an office. And for those who do, it’s the ultimate coffee break. With five or ten minutes of total immersion, you can be socializing with people all over the country and around the globe, sharing quick tales of weal and woe that range from the mundane to the supernatural There’s instant advice, encouragement, and information to be had any time you stick your toes into the Twitter stream – if you’ve found a good spot on the bank of this wild new river to perch. I’ve been using and enjoying this novel social medium and “micro-blog” website under the carefully devised codename, TomVMorris, for about six months. And I’ve briefly mentioned it in a couple of previous blogs. Given all this, as a philosopher I admit I have a keen eye for something that surprised me at first given the millions of tweets that run down the Twitter stream….wisdom, or what I have coined “Twisdom, my term for Twitter wisdom.
This social network we call “Twitter” is not about an international announcment or your less than 100 followers how you slept last night or what your dog ate for breakfast, though that is certainly permitted. And it’s not just about high profile persons, or who can attract the most followers the quickest. It’s about building a new form of community. It’s about learning. It offers support, inspiration, and daily motivation. And it’s also about fun. But the most important aspect of Twitter may be that, if you do things right, you begin to surround yourself with an incredible group of people eager to share their best questions and insights about life. They’re all seeking new wisdom and hope. Twisdom is has evolved from it. There’s collaborative thinking on Twitter at a level and in a form I’ve never seen before. Almost every day, and often many times a day, a topic comes up that causes me, as a philosopher and simply a curious individual, to ponder a bit, and then share the results of that pondering in the Twitter-allowed one hundred and forty characters or less.
One comment will spark another, and before long, people of different ages and walks of life from around the world are engaged with me and each other in an extended conversation of brief bursts that add up to new realizations for everyone involved. I’ve gone from two followers to several thousand without doing anything to “build a following” on Twitter. It’s just happened. This means that, when I send a tweet, that many people in principle could read it right away. And if they like it, they can retweet it, or copy and send it on to their followers, many of whom might then, if they also resonate with what I’ve said, send it on again, and then maybe even become my direct Twitter followers as well. In turn, seeing their use of my own little thought, I might join their circle. It’s almost unimaginable how far a single tweet can go in its effort to do a little good in the world. The new connectivity of Twitter is immensely and surprisingly powerful.
At first it was mostly my younger friends almost demanding that I try out this new social network while my peers and same-age contemporaries, others were warning me to stay away. Now understand both perspectives. As an experiment, I once clicked on the universal Twitter stream named “Everyone” that was available for a while on the basic Twitter web page. This immersed me in the main current of tweets from all over the world. I refreshed the page every four seconds, scanning and reading everything I could as fast as I was able, and I did this for a stretch of less than fifteen minutes — a seeming eternity in TwitterTime. It was quite an experience.I didn’t see any quotes from the deep thinkers. There were no deeper musings on life. There didn’t seem to be much real social interaction. There were just lots of soliloquies on the painfully trivial. There were several outbursts of obscenity. There was a full stream of complaining and venting. There was also some high-pressure marketing. But there was almost nothing like what I see in my own little Twitter stream every time I log into my favorite social network.
As is the case of most that we do in the world, Twitter is what we make of it.I have met many people who utilize it to think, touch lives, work together, and support each other. My little community there is an amazing circle of novelists, cartoonists, comic book writers and illustrators, editors, consultants, corporate and personal coaches, journalists, executives, marketing experts, moms, dads, and various celebrities who sometimes appear on Twitter as just real people with a strong interest in ideas, and in being helpful with their time, rarely if ever Twittering about their work. It’s a self-selected collection of vibrant and generous personalities thinking and playing together, using an unspoken set of netiquette rules, making the dynamics of Twitter quite an unexpected, but surprisingly nice journey for me.
In the short bursts of thought and commentary that Twitter allows, we can all turn into philosophical aphorists. Critics may be tempted to dismiss what results as nothing more than fortune cookie wisdom, without the cookie. But the nuggets of insight, or twisdom, that Twitter allows can in principle be much more than that. What we find in Twitter exchanges won’t typically replicate the results of a Yale philosophy seminar, or a colloquium at Notre Dame. It’s a place not for abstruse theory but for practical insight. And yet the insights can run quite deep. As Steven Johnson recently said in a Time Magazine cover story on the whole phenomenon, “Twitter turns out to have surprising depth.” One tweet can change your life, or on a much smaller scale, make your day. If you don’t use Twitter already, you may find it at times unexpectedly helpful for a contemplation of the wonder and mystery of your life. I’m not saying that you’ll always find world-historical profundity on Twitter. Twisdom is often more down to earth and humble than that. It’s frequently just a reminder of something we know and need to live. Or it’s a slightly new angle on an old realization.
Perspective may be the key. Or it’s a call to action, and an inspiration take the initiative. I believe Twitter has taught me to think more lucidly. I’ve experienced new insights there that have arisen in a genuinely novel way, out of the collective thinking that occurs in short bursts, and on the run. But that’s how we do most things these days — in short bursts, and on the run. So perhaps the twisdom that has come about in the same way may be well suited to the situations we confront, and the insights we need, at precisely this moment in time.If the idea of Twisdom interests you, one way to explore it is to find me on Twitter, as TomVMorris. I will be more than happy to introduce you around to the sages there that I already know, the people who inspire and touch my life on a daily basis. And, who knows, you may even end up pondering some of the mysteries of life with Oprah — or at least find out what she had for dinner.
Dr. Tom V. Morris founder of the Morris Institute Of Human Values is a philosopher and author. “Twisdom is his 20th book, available at Amazon as are his others. Morris taught philosophy at Notre Dame for many years and has even trademarked the word “Twisdom”.
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