...I want to discuss the possibility that we are living at the end of a great arc of history, which began with the invention of moveable type. There have, of course, been other transformative steps in communication during that half millennium – the invention of the telegraph, or radio and television, for instance – but essentially they were continuations of an idea of communication that involved one person speaking to many.

That's not dead as an idea. But what's happening today – the mass ability to communicate with each other, without having to go through a traditional intermediary – is truly transformative....

I’ve seen people use some rather hefty plugins on their blogs to display their recent Twitter action and a couple of people have asked me how I display my tweets. Well, I’ll tell ya! The essential bits are only about 3 lines of code.

visual voicemail for twitter

First...Enter your business, keywords and responses into my automated response system and then your customers can request that information over Twitter.

Half of the team that founded Etsy, along with a former Etsy and Amazon.com product manager, have quietly launched a new startup. Postling is a centralized platform for small businesses to publish to the social Web.

What follows are 10 examples of how New Hampshire businesses and organizations of varying shapes, sizes, and industries use social media platforms to advance their objectives. While new national and international examples are cited in Herman's class (as well as everywhere you turn in mainstream traditional and online media), fellow business owners and passionate professionals are experimenting and succeeding right in our own backyard, and results are rolling in.

If there was a popularity contest between social media platforms, I am sure Twitter would be the winner. Networking, trends, and search features all On its own,

We all know that Twitter’s starting to reach the mainstream (um, Oprah?) and has been seeing significant growth over the past couple of years, but with all of that growth comes such massive amounts of noise that you can start to feel like you’re being pecked (or tweeted) to death. Here are a few ways to save your sanity:

TwitterHawk can help you do market yourself or your product on Twitter to people unknowingly interested in what you have to offer by means of targeted marketing.

I love a shortcut, and regularly make use of a range of keyboard shortcuts on Twitter. There are more of them than you might imagine. As such I have aggregated a bunch of commands to provide you with one handy cut-out-and-keep / ‘bookmark on Delicious’ guide.

We offer practical tips and advice for anyone who uses the web for work, especially those who want to use the web to be more productive, more connected.

Discovering what really works in sales and marketing optimization through testing and research. Editor/lead twit: Hunter Boyle

Traveler, foodie, dad, dedicated geek and CEO @TopRank with 12+ years in online & digital marketing focused on SEO, public relations and social media.

Head of content, editor, social media, marketing, great food, good wine, writer at www.annhandley.com.

Social media strategist, speaker & trainer. Helps companies understand the 'social' part of social media. Click link to see what I do. Founder of #blogchat

Twittbot is an interesting Twitter companion service that allows you to create Twitter groups. First you create a new Twitter account to represent your group. Then you head over to Twittbot and bind the Twitter account to a Twittbot, picking a security level (anyone can post, or just a few invited users can post). Now anyone (or anyone with permission, depending on your security type) can @reply your group account, and the message will be reposted to the group account.

Want to build a Twitter group that brings like-minded individuals together? We provide all the steps to make it work using free Web tools. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on Webware.

One of the most demanded features for Twitter has been the ability to create groups. Here is a roundup of some of 11 ways to create groups on Twitter.

Based on my close observation of Twitter (I have written the first article about Twitter already in March 2007) I have identified five use cases how business can use Twitter for their business...

Twitter launched the first phase of its Verified Accounts program moments ago, meaning that celebrities, musicians, athletes, actors, public officials and

Newsweek said it best: "Suddenly, all the world is a-Twitter." Simple and powerful, Twitter is a must for nonprofit organizations. I created and manage a portal to nonprofits on Twitter @nonprofitorgs and based on my experience using site, I have crafted ten of my favorite Twitter Tips for beginners:

Industry specific guides to Twitter, by profession

With the Twitter fail whale popping up all the time, you never know when something tragic might happen. No one want to lose all of their Twitter tweets,

Visible Tweets is a visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces.

TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit status updates to Twitter via your iGoogle homepage or Gmail Account.

Over the last two months most of the storefront businesses in Boulder (where I live) have joined and started participating in twitter.  I was sure a vendor was

Search Twitter for keywords and have results delivered to your feed reader.

I have been working on a new startup called Edglings (see www.edglings.com). It's a product company, building applications that dovetail with Twitter, trying to make the experience of Twitter richer, deeper, and more social. How do I and my partners...

Of course you'd like to think that most of your daily conversation is weighty and witty but instead everyone chats about pedestrian nonsense with their pals. In fact, that ephemeral chit-chat is the stuff that holds human social groups together.

what does your social network look like - by twitter handle, city, keywords, etc...

Twimailer is a nifty service that launched recently that makes Twitter BACN (”email that you want, just not right now“) more useful and informative ( example).

"Tired of shallow e-mails from Twitter when someone follows you? Want more information right in your inbox? Check out Twimailer."

We make tiny choices every day. Those choices become habits, and those habits to behaviors. your.flowingdata helps you see that it's the little things in life that count by letting you collect data about yourself and your surroundings via Twitter.

I was lucky enough to get in on the Gmail beta when it launched and I haven't looked back since. Even though I've had an account for almost three years and I get over 100 emails a day, I have...

How to use the social-networking service Twitter.

With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of Twitter.

David Spark recounts 12 great tales of social network defriending on sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

We are hearing all this talk about the power of twitter and a lot of us do it for fun.  Heck! nothing better than being considered Twitterati or

Please share your tips and ideas for mastering Twitter. The ideas that the community submits and votes will be considered for inclusion in the book, and 10% of gross royalties will go to a charity the community selects! (Post your charity as an idea and categorize it "NOMINATE THE CHARITY")

TwitPay is a simple way to send payments via Twitter

Tweetup Badges help you put names to faces in the offline worl

Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog. In my

With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of Twitter.

Microblink was founded on July 27, 2008 as a weblog to provide the latest news and thoughts surrounding the world of microblogging. In addition to providing news, the site is dedicated to providing commentary on microblogging usage and its future as a communication channel. Coverage on the site spans across all communities, platforms, applications and services in this budding industry.

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I created this snapshot guide to help you extend the reach and the efficacy of Twitter for your personal brand as well as the brand you represent. This is the first part of a multi-part series. If you’d like me to review and include additional tools and services, please share them in the comments and I’ll integrate into the next rev.

Reppin' the Reputation Tools We've talked before about getting set up on Twitter and now that so many in the real estate industry are actively using Twitter,

FriendOrFollow.com helps you manage your Twitter contacts. Submit your Twitter screen name to find out who you're following that's not following you back, and who's following you that you're not following back.

FireStatus is a Firefox 3 extension that allows you to send status updates, notes and URL links simultaneously to multiple social networks and services, like Twitter, FaceBook and FriendFeed. It also displays updates from these services in notification popups, for a more "live" communication with your friends.

Xefer will breakdown any public Twitter user’s posting frequency by day and time. Only the last 800 tweets are counted.

Businesses should lose their inhibitions over using the microblogging tool to get closer to their customers