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How to be Everywhere in Social Media

One of the most challenging things about being involved in social media is the number of tools you have to keep track of.  You have Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Linked In, You Tube,  Last.FM, MySpace, Identi.ca, Brightkite and many, many more.

So how do you keep track of them all and remember to keep them all updated?

The Puck has written an amazing article called Ten Steps to Being Everywhere in Social Media and it is well worth a read.  Through his article I discovered the site, Profilactic which has given me the great list in my sidebar containing all the places I can be found online.  It puts all your streams and that of your friends in one handy place, but unlike FriendFeed, you can not comment on your friends’ posts.

Also, I have found the AdobeAir application SocialAddict which pulls through the mobile version of 11 of the most popular social networking site and puts them into one handy desktop application.  I prefer Twhirl for using Twitter, but for my other sites this application seems pretty good. Maybe using this application I can stop losing so much karma on Plurk because I never seem to find the time to check in every day.

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Tags: profilactic, social media, socialaddict, twitter

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The Social Media Love-In

Darren from Problogger held a Social Media Love-In at the beginning of this week where he encouraged all of his readers to post links to all the social networking tools that they use and to friend other comments.  It was a huge success.  Darren and his trusty assistant Lara then complied a list of 538 Problogger readers that use Twitter and has since done similar lists for StumbleUpon and Digg users.

My inbox has been swamped with notifications of people who are now following me on Twitter and Plurk and I have been having a great time checking out their blogs and reading their tweets and plurks.

Darren’s social media love-in has proven the immense power that social networking sites can have in connecting people with common interests. It will be interesting to see how many long lasting connections are made from this experiment and how many people will delete most of the people they added from their friends lists after the excitment has died down.

Tags: Darren Rowse, plurk, stumbleupon, twitter

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Ratified Winner

I was checking my incoming links this morning and there was one from http://australia.ratified.org/rati/winners so I decided to see what it was all about.

According to Ratified, I am today’s winner for the biggest jump in the Ratified ratings moving up 51 places from 136 to 85. I am not entirely sure what this means, if anything, but still it was nice to see my blog at number one for something. It has given my Monday morning a nice happy glow.

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Have nuns taken up the blogging habit?

I am being stalked by nuns.  It is Catholic World Youth Day in Sydney next week and the Pope will be coming to town, thus Sydney is starting to fill up with Catholic pilgrims from around the world including lots of nuns.  In a city where it is rare to see a nun to now seeing them everywhere is very strange.  It feels like I have stepped into a parallel Catholic world.  But there is one group of nuns who I swear are stalking me.  They are a group of young nuns from Tennessee who got on my bus the other morning to travel into the City.  We said hello and chatted briefly about Catholic World Youth Day.  Now, I keep seeing them everywhere - in a city full of nuns.  It is starting to freak me out and I think I am being to develop a touch of cloisterphobia.

Seeing all these young nuns around town got me wondering about whether these nuns are blogging about their lives and in particular if we have any blogger nuns attending World Youth Day.

A quick search has revealed the blog and twitter of Sister Julie who writes A Nun’s Life where she talks about what it is like to be a nun and runs a forum for those interested in taking up the vocation.  It is an absolutely fascinating read.  Did you know that there is a difference between a nun and a sister?

A young Aussie nun Sister Sarah blogs over at The Nun Thing where she has a fantastic post entitled Sometimes it is embarassing to be Catholic where she, like the rest of the citizens of Sydney, questions the logic of the annoyance law in place for WYD. I am glad to see Catholics feel the same way that the rest of do about this idiotic law.

This is what I love about blogging, the fact that so many people from so many walks of life take part in it.  A simple Google search can uncover blogs that let you see the world from someone else’s point of view and in doing so can change the way you view others.

Tags: blogs, Catholic, nuns, World Youth Day

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Creating Fiction on Twitter

Twitter is becoming well-known for being the place online where news about major events are broken. Andrew Sayer has taken this fact to a new level and has done an amazing mock up of what his Twitter timeline would look like if there was a global Zombie attack.  It is absolutely fantastic and even this small snipet creates a wonderful sense of suspense and you are left wanting to know what happens next.

This got me thinking, is anyone out there using Twitter either directly or in a pictorial form like Andrew’s mock up to tell a story?   So I started investigation and I found Twitter Fiction, who writes a stories, or as she terms it, microfictions in 140 characters.  Meanwhile over at MInific, they are collaborating 130 character stories and reposting them through a single Twitter feed.

I am sure there are many more people out there using Twitter to write fiction, so if you know of any please let us know.

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