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Re: 3 Reasons Facebook Trumps Twitter for Business

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:24:40 -0000

I must say that reading your comments on facebook made more since to me than any article I've read so far. I'm going to have to rethink my position on facebook and with your thoughts and ideas in mine I'm sure my second time around using facebook for business will work.

For, like you, I had not had much luck trying to make my facebook page a good business tool. But in reading your article I can see that your points are well taken and with just a little work I'm sure that facebook can now be what I though it should have been right from the beginning.

Thank you so very much for your incite.

Re: 5 Holes That Twitter Needs To Fill (And Soon) - AllTwitter

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:35:33 -0000

Well I agree with most if not all of what you've said but before Twitter can get anything new added they are going to have to fix the mess they have now. They can't reliable offer basic services on anything approaching constancy.

So Twitter like all of the social media sites has many ways it could improve their system but first they have to get it working. That's just not happening now. There is no time of the day or night I've found that I can get anything but constant problems with sending, updating, or receiving any part of their stream.

Soon it won't be can we improve Twitter it will be can we save Twitter. Lets hope they wake up before it's too late. I would hate to be posting on FaceBook my eulogy for Twitter.

Re: 5 Holes That Twitter Needs To Fill (And Soon)

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:35:33 -0000

So Twitter like all of the social media sites has many ways it could improve their system but first they have to get it working. That's just not happening now. There is no time of the day or night I've found that I can get anything but constant problems with sending, updating, or receiving any part of their stream.

Soon it won't be can we improve Twitter it will be can we save Twitter. Lets hope they wake up before it's too late. I would hate to be posting on FaceBook my eulogy for Twitter.

Re: 5 Holes That Twitter Needs To Fill (And Soon) - AllTwitter

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:41:05 -0000

Yes blocked only means that they can't send you tweets but they can still see your tweets AND they can still send tweets out mentioning you by your tweeter @name.

Blocked should mean that they can't read, send, or comment on your tweets as well as not be able to send tweets containing your tweeter @name

Anything else leaves you open to abuse at the hands of those who chose to continue to stalk or harass you on twitter

Re: 5 Holes That Twitter Needs To Fill (And Soon)

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:41:05 -0000

Yes blocked only means that they can't send you tweets but they can still see your tweets AND they can still send tweets out mentioning you by your tweeter @name.

Blocked should mean that they can't read, send, or comment on your tweets as well as not be able to send tweets containing your tweeter @name

Anything else leaves you open to abuse at the hands of those who chose to continue to stalk or harass you on twitter

Re: The downtown Wichita plan: Will this time be different?

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:09:29 -0000

Well lets hope this plan is going to go forward. So many have failed to get more than started before they have been changed. The dancing fountains we bought are a very good example of the problem. Why after several year's can't the city pick a place and get them installed. It's never going to happen if every time it comes up they start discussions all over again. Anyway so far the fountains only dancing has been around their storage area. And I'll bet by the time we finally get around to putting them in somewhere they will need work from sitting so long in storage. Sad to see something that would really bring people downtown sitting in some basement wasting away. But that is the story of downtown development in Wichita, do a study (costing thousands), approve a project or two, stop all work, approve a study (more money again), approve the new study, approve a project or two, stop all work, well you get the idea. Lets just finally approve something and stick to it for a change. No plan will be perfect, nor will any plan please everyone. But approving plans just to let them die to approve more plans just doesn't make sense.

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:50:08 -0000

@simbeckhampson I'm not sure it's android that keeps your popups from working I changed carriers & found all mine worked Version was prob Phone carriers tweak system & disable features sometimes

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:05:28 -0000

@simbeckhampson yes I was surprised to see just how much Verizon had disabled OS features might not be your prob but maybe darn phone co's anyway

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:13:25 -0000

Darn last reply went before I was finished. Don't let your cursor hover over post comment or it will go when it feels like it... LOL
Anyway yes I can now send DM's in amplify and other overlays that I couldn't do before switching to AT&T. Had the phone flashed to work with new carrier and since then lots of things work that didn't before. Getting to the kernel level and changing carriers was the only change made. Sad that they write OS's then companies disable features and make changes just for their benefit. Just keep me posted maybe we can understand just what is going on. Who knows maybe just flashing your phone would make some of these things work?

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:15:52 -0000

@simbeckhampson well I suppose that could be the problem too so many possibilities it's enough to drive a person crazy

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:19:05 -0000

@simbeckhampson sounds like a good idea to screen cast it but I don't know an app to show a phone screen on the computer plus when flashing it all apps and such are shut down anyway as it's at the kernel level interesting problem

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:21:24 -0000

@svartling I had an I phone for a while & couldn't do some things I had to do with out flash it's always something but over all the iPhone ranks highest with consumers

Re: Most Tweets Produce Zero Replies or Retweets [STUDY]

Frank Woodman Jr — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:30:40 -0000

I agree that it's really a pretty high number (29%) of tweets being commented on or RT'ed since most tweets aren't ones that should be RT'ed or commented on. If I tweet that I'm going to lunch so people know I'm not still there why would that be something to be RT'ed. Just the knowledge that a few of the things that I like, find interesting, or want to share might be of interest to anyone is enough for me. If just one tweet or thought reaches someone through Twitter, FaceBook, Amplify, my blog, or any of the other numerous ways I reach out it amazes me. What way besides social media does the average person have to reach anyone outside their everyday circle of contacts much less a potential 29%.

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:00:27 -0000

@simbeckhampson well that's interesting playing around may have been like rebooting a computer & made it decide to work. Or maybe there was a problem in somebodies system somewhere that got fixed. That's the crazy with smart phones (computers) and all this high tech stuff. Just glad it's working now hope you didn't have to root your phone that raises many questions on possible warranty or repair problems.

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:03:47 -0000

@svartling which is nice if you have the option but the IRS and state of Kansas both have flash items on their web sites that I must use. I average going to those sites three or four times a week and often it needs to be on my phone. So flash isn't an option for me. I just wish iPhone (Apple) would allow it's users to decide on flash just for this reason as until they do I just can't be an iPhone user.

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:24:35 -0000

.@simbeckhampson just glad you didn't have 2 root U never know how that will go had 1 that became expensive brick :-(

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:58:01 -0000

.@simbeckhampson Hi Paul if you still have some invites to Curated.by I would be interested

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:28:42 -0000

.@svartling no doubt but that's beyond my control and I'm stuck until they do flash is forced on many of us

Re: http://simbeckhampson.com/2010/10/03/1161/

Frank Woodman Jr — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:21:01 -0000

@simbeckhampson Yes Paul I've found it to be useful as it's so easy mark something as important. So far it's been nice and it's easy to use and with just a click you can see things from a standard inbox view or the priority view. Just wish that I could use it with Thunderbird sadly Thunderbird can't filter it that way.

Re: The 5 Core Principles Of Any Social Media Plan

Frank Woodman Jr — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:42:13 -0000

Thanks for a very insightful article. It's always smart to back off and develop a general game plan before you jump head long into anything. And you've given us all a good start regarding social media planning. I think that often people forget the "social" part of social media. Its people and how you communicate and interact with them that determine what your final success will be and you've certainly addressed that well in your list.

The only other thing I think I would add is to be sure and chart how all your social media pieces link together. Without a good flow chart to keep track of things often you become lost and can't keep up with what are the constantly moving and changing relations between all the sites, services, blogs, etc and they end up becoming one giant spider web of confusion. And doing this has also made it so much easier for me to understand when adding anything else where it needs to fit in the whole scheme of things.

So I chart everything thing I can think of on a flow chart such as:

What URL, user name, and password belongs to each site (of course RoboForm helps with that too)
What services I use with that site (like using HootSuite and tweetdeck with Twitter)
If and how a site or blog is updated. (Through a service, by direct entry, by automation or by a third party)
When and in what order do I want posts and entries to be done. (Blog, tweet about blog entry, post blog to FaceBook, tweet about FaceBook entry)
And last but not least how are the various email lists, newsletters, and other customer relation things handled for each site, blog, or service I have.

All of this makes understanding the connection between the various parts that make up my social media environment so much easier. And even more important this information makes it possible for me to obtain maximum ROI for my time spent. I don’t find myself always looking for some piece of information it’s all right there in the chart!

Re: A New Word for Learning?

Frank Woodman Jr — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:29:25 -0000

.@simbeckhampson wow tough question I'll have to give that some thought but I will try and throw something at you. Teaching has some merit but it would be nice to get something unique but yet not to "business speak" sounding. But I understand your problem very well I do accounting and business consulting and just saying those words puts people to sleep. I guess I should get a job as a sleep therapist.

Re: A New Word for Learning?

Frank Woodman Jr — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:31:25 -0000

@simbeckhampson Yes I think of all of those and worse is the terrible memories of way to much structure for my tastes. I think that is why teaching as a word carries so much baggage. We all still see someone standing there demanding of us to stand and perform while going over a curriculum that rewarded the reciting of facts not the development of ideas and seeking of enlightenment. It's this picture that definitely isn't attractive to the older adults that you are trying to reach. These people want free flowing ideas and to develop ways, processes, and methods that improve peoples performance not tie it to rote recitals.

Re: Five Tips for Curating Vastness

Frank Woodman Jr — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:45:06 -0000

@simbeckhampson I understand Paul first come first served I need to be faster on the keyboard... LOL It sure sounds like a great idea and I'll keep poking around till I find one.

So does anyone reading this have a curated invite laying around they aren't using.

Re: Building Your Own TinyURL In Less Than 1 Hour Using WordPress

Frank Woodman Jr — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:12:41 -0000

Thanks Alex for a very good and informative article. I've seen and heard many talk about setting up a URL shorter for themselves and never really delved into doing as it sounded like more trouble than it was worth. But with your article and the other comments here it has sure changed my mind on that issue. And it's not that hard nor that difficult once someone who really understands WordPress walks you through it.
And the benefits of controlling what your URL looks like while having all the stats to work with and not be sharing them with anyone else is wonderful. I can also see how you could use it to hide affiliate links so that they wouldn't be shown and people couldn't just clip them to cut you out.
Wonderful job and you can bet I'll be watching and following your site from now on.
Frank Woodman Jr. @kstaxman (twitter & amplify) http://www.proservicesks.com

Re: Good Personal Choices – the most powerful Information Security Tool

Frank Woodman Jr — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:50:13 -0000

Security has always been about people and the choices they make not just the software solutions they choose. Most security problems come down to someone making the wrong decision. No software, procedure policy, or any other solution will work if the people behind it don't use good judgment. That is why the threat of phishing is so much worse than most other threats. By getting people to make wrong decisions all their "safe guards" are pointless. Just as the Greeks learned you can't just take any old horse at face value.