February 6, 2012

DFW WordPress Meetup and Twitter Video

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I use WordPress as my platform of choice for all my blogs. WordPress is an incredible, free, user-friendly, open-source software platform that runs on PHP and MySQL (sorry for all the adjectives…but it really is that good!) Anyways, I attended a monthly meetup of the Dallas/Fort Worth WordPress group last weekend. While the usual format [...]

The Day the Twitter TV Show Died

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I woke up on the morning of Memorial Day to find the Twitterverse running amok with news of what sounded like a Twitter Reality TV show. This was fueled by an article on Variety Magazine’s website which reported that Twitter had joined with Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment and were creating a show described as “putting [...]

How do I use Twitter?

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My last post served as a short introduction to Twitter. Through my regular research, I found this awesome video from Howcast that covers a little of the same material and touches on some new points. If you’re new to Twitter or still researching it, it’s worth the watch! I’ve also added a few bits of Twitter lingo

What is this Twitter thing?

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So you’ve heard people talking about Twitter…or maybe you heard about the race to 1 million followers between Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and CNN (@cnnbrk)…or maybe you even saw the headlines when Oprah (@oprah) sent her first “tweet”.  Now you want to know all about it and have a million questions. Let’s answer some of those… [...]