About the Twitter
I’ve been on Twitter for a very short period of time (posting Tweets maybe since last week, or so?). While having lunch with Rebecca last week, I mentioned that Twitter gave me just about the right...
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Reflections on Twitter etiquette
I have only been on Twitter for a *very* short period of time, and I’ve already been followed and un-followed, both by simple strangers *and* people I know. Strange world we live in. Anyways, I was...
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Why I’m probably going to cave to Facebook
Photo credit: Pshab on Flickr. I have been having a wonderful discussion with Beth Snow about the “BC colleges becoming universities” story that has been recently in the news. Beth put it in her...
View ArticleThose Twitter interactions
I could fill this post solely with links to other Vancouver bloggers who have discussed the idea of Twitter over the past few weeks (including but not limited to John Biehler, Rebecca Bollwitt, Lisa...
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Self-deprecating post about Twitter and me
How fun would I be if I weren’t able to poke fun at myself? Yeah, i would be VERY boring. Since the image I am going to link to is probably copyrighted, I won’t lift it off of the site. Instead, I will...
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Being a workaholic AND a blogaholic…
Hello, my name is Raul and I am both a workaholic AND a blogaholic. I don’t think I had admitted that I was a workaholic until fairly recently. I am trying to update my academic CV and I can’t even...
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New to Twitter? Use a Twitter client
I know that Rebecca has compared Twitter clients at some point, and I recall a post by John Biehler (that I couldn’t find) and one from Gary Jones by BlueFur explaining Twhirl, so apologies if I’m...
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Witty tweets
I use Twitter both as a tool to interact with my friends as well as a tool to reach out to a broader public. I’ve programmed TwitterFeed to publish my posts (I can’t use WordTwit because I’m not...
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Beyond national frontiers with Twitter
Credit: JMilles Yes I know I tweet. A lot. With over 9,000 tweets since April 2008, I have no clue how I have managed to actually maintain my followers. You are too kind! At any rate, while I was in...
View ArticleSteve Jagger’s talk about Twitter – Vancouver Real Estate Tech Meetup
I usually attend this meetup because I have a lot of friends (the organizers included, Shane Gibson and Steve Jagger) who are either realtors or do tech stuff for realtors. Steve gave a quick talk...
View ArticleTwitter and the bi-directionality of Web 2.0
While this week (and weekend) has been incredibly busy, I still managed to see Joe Solomon and Jonathon Narvey for a really quick coffee. Both Joe and Jonathon live fairly close to me, and we tend to...
View ArticleTweetDeck as a standard Twitter client
While I think Tris was the very first one whom I saw using TweetDeck, I’ve started to notice lately that many of my friends are adopting it as a tool to manage their Twitter contacts. It’s been hard...
View ArticlePetition to Twitter – change the tagline!
I know that many people who are new-ish to Twitter (or want to explore it) want to know what the heck is Twitter and how to best use it. I have repeatedly said here on my blog and on Twitter that my...
View ArticleUsing Twitter and WordPress to create and maintain friendships
As I tweeted earlier today, my posts for the day are all themed around friendships. I am a very, very blessed man. I am very lucky in that I have amazing people who inspire me every day, who comfort me...
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The use of Twitter in an academic context
And here I thought I was going to beat everyone by THIS MUCH to write about how to use Twitter in an academic context and… guess what? Somebody beat me to it. Yes, the blog “AcademHack” wrote about the...
View ArticleHave we lost the bidirectionality of Twitter this early in the game?
I have previously written about the topic of how Web 2.0′s premise is that sense of bi-directionality and conversation between content creators and users. Recently, David Gratton tweeted this: I’ve...
View ArticleTwitter has officially become mainstream – my civilian friends know all about...
This morning, I had brunch with C, B and L. My usual brunch crowd. These are friends I met while we all were doing our PhDs at UBC (in different disciplines, but we all lived in the same residential...
View ArticleTweetups Directory in Vancouver
Given that I decided to wait until April to hold a Vancouver Bloggers Meetup, I’ve been getting requests and inquiries from a variety of people on how they can find when these tweetups happen. Let me...
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Brokeback Qwitter: “I wish I knew how to Qwit you!”
I’ve been unfollowed on Twitter many, many times, and for a wide variety of reasons. At first, I did take it personally, I admit. And by at first, I mean within the first 3 months of using the service....
View ArticleTwitter as an online social space to hang out virtually and enable offline...
I am an academic. I love looking at things through the eyes of research, even social media (see my latest analysis of social media marketing here). I don’t research social media per se, as I am a...
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