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Awesome Twitter Header Images

Enhance your brand on twitter with these simple steps.

Have you ever wondered how to create the cool Twitter picture combination so that your main profile image appears to seamlessly sit on top of the header image? Well in case you were wondering, here is a quick, easy-to-follow set of instructions with a screen recording depicting how to do this.

What you need to do this task:

  • Pixelmator or other photoshop-like program
  • Twitter login info
  • creativity
  • 2 images you wish
    • ...

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How to Archive Your Twitter Feed in Under 5 Minutes

Twitter is the most instant of the mainstream social media tools. Have a thought, or a message, tweet it out, and its soon replaced by the next tweet, just one note in the chorus of chirps and squawks that populates our online lives.

But, perhaps you want an organized archive of your Twitter presence. Maybe to track the effectiveness of a campaign, report back up the chain of command, or use as training materials throughout your organization. There are a number of social media services and analytics programs that provide such features, but if you want the raw data. there is no better source than Twitter itself.

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What is Vine?

February 28th, 2013
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Several weeks ago, Twitter launched its new stand-alone video sharing app, Vine. Unlike traditional videos that can be created using apps like Viddy or Socialcam, Vine allows users to capture six seconds of looping, automatically-edited video on their iPhone. The results often look like animated GIFs, which are experiencing a resurgence in popularity, and can be shared with friends across Twitter and Facebook.

How to Lose Followers and Enrage People: The VEVO Guide on How NOT to Execute a Social Media Campaign

If you’re like most Austinites, you spent the last week recuperating from the 10-day South by Southwest festivities. But if you’re like me, you also spent the last week getting over the VEVO Fiasco of 2011. What started out as a seemingly flawless social media campaign completely crumbled in a matter of days. If you missed any of the madness on Twitter, the VEVO meltdown went a little like this:

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Social media wears many different hats. Should your company be wearing them too?

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Social media can be an engager, an adviser, an awareness raiser. It can build connections. Sometimes, it can burn bridges-- how many apologies have we seen for ill-received Twitter rants? But there is no doubt that social media, if used correctly can, and should, play an important role in your company. How do we know? Let’s take a look at how one of the big guns is utilizing social networks in its marketing campaigns.

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The Buzz on Google Buzz



As more and more communication occurs online, the social web has erupted as a place to speak your mind, keep up with old friends, and stay connected with the entire world, all in real-time. But in today’s world of status updates, retweets, and message streams, it is difficult to distinguish the relevancy from all the buzz, much less to stay engaged in significant conversations.

On Tuesday, Google announced their newest innovation for the social web: Google Buzz. In an attempt to organize all your social information on the web into one place, Google Buzz is built right into Gmail as a new way to start conversations with your current friends – and you don’t have to start your “friend-stable” from scratch. You are automatically set up to “follow” the people you email often and Buzz comes equipped with a more enhanced sharing experience via photos, videos and links. More in-depth rambling after the jump.

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