New Front Page
Twitter is a work in progress. At first, the idea of tweeting only appealed to a few but then it caught on in a big way. Now Twitter is an incredibly rich and expanding information network. Our design team has changed the front page to reflect this metamorphosis and will continue to adjust accordingly.

Official Twitter Conference
The first official Twitter developer conference will be held. It's called Chirp. The event will take place in San Francisco over two days. The first day is April 14th at the Palace of Fine Arts. On April 15th, we'll be gathering at Fort Mason right along the bay. We're looking forward to meeting in person. For info, tickets, or to watch online, visit the Chirp web site.

Fighting Spam
The Chief Scientist Abdur recently published a short piece titled, "State of Twitter Spam." In it, he explained how the definition of spam is different when compared to the common email variety. Spam is inevitable on a popular system but we fight it aggressively. Less than 1% of tweets per day are spam and we work diligently to reduce that percentage.

Location, Location, Location
A new feature has been added to the Twitter web site that allows you to attach location data to individual tweets. This feature may not appeal to everyone so it requires that you activate it first in your Account Settings. You can choose to share an exact location or a general location such as neighborhood or town. This additional context is potentially very powerful.

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Thought to share with you - The National Archives, in Canberra Australia reached 150 000 digitised items September last year.

http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/

You can explore the national library’s digital collection that contains selected items providing users easy online access to some of Australia’s most significant cultural materials.

Syndicate all of your blog posts for immediate posting on Facebook (personal page), LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Once you’ve done the initial setup all new articles will automatically appear at each platform. Below are descriptions of how it works for each network.

Make Blog Posts Appear on Your LinkedIn Profile

Let’s take a look at how you can make all blog posts appear inside your LinkedIn profile.

1. Go to your LinkedIn profile and click on Edit My Profile in the top left navigation bar.
2. Scroll down until you see a box with the headline Featured Applications. Click on the right arrow button until you see the W logo, which stands for WordPress (for those who use a WordPress.com blog).
3. Select Add this application followed by clicking on the Update Settings button on the right side of your screen. Make sure to check the box Display on my profile.
4. Type your WordPress blog address, which for most users will be http://YOURBLOGNAME.wordpress.com*.
5. Once you click on the save button your blog posts will automatically appear on your LinkedIn profile.

Sharing Articles through Facebook
Similarly, blog posts can automatically be posted at your Facebook wall once you’ve set it up.
1. Locate the panel at the lower right side of your screen once you’ve logged on to Facebook.
2. Click on the Notes button.
3. At the prompt giving you the option to import your blog, type your blog address in a similar way you did above for LinkedIn.
4. New blog posts will appear automatically on your Facebook wall. Additionally, you’ll see all your blog content under the Notes Tab in your Facebook menu.

Using Twitter to Share Your Stories
Syndicating your blog posts to Twitter require a slightly different process. Essentially, you’ll enable the distribution of links to your blog articles by signing up for a free account at twitterfeed.com.

1. Go to Twitterfeed.com to create your account.
2. Once your account is created you’ll have to verify the connection between Twitterfeed and Twitter, essentially allowing the transfer of information between the platforms.
3. Next, create a new feed by typing in your blog name. For twitterfeed, you’ll need to add the word feed, though, and the final web address you need to type is http://YOURBLOGNAME.wordpress.com/feed/*.

Once you’ve created the feed between Twitterfeed and Twitter you’ll see tweets (as messages through Twitter are called) with links to your articles.

While the concept of syndication in essence is the same for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, Facebook is the only platform that actually incorporates the entire article onto your Facebook profile. LinkedIn and Twitter instead provide links to the full articles at your blog.

Syndication allows you to effectively reach your audiences at all respective platforms without having to manually add them each time. Such a set up will help you minimize the time you spend managing your networks.


* The web addresses you use should be the ones you used when you signed up for a blog. In my case the web address for my blog is http://sociallywirednow.wordpress.com/ for Facebook and LinkedIn, and http://sociallywirednow.wordpress.com/feed/ for the connection between Twitterfeed and Twitter.

• 676,805,208 is the latest figure of users who access the internet (www.internetworldstats.com)
• There are 60 million users on Linked In within 200 different countries
• Further 8 million users on Facebook alone!
• LinkedIn Groups can be added to your social bookmark on your website

Guess who just jumped on board?

Jetstar announced this week that it was shifting 40 per cent of its $25 million above-the-line advertising budget into digital media, in particular social media, in a bid to reach larger audiences. The discount airline had previously only spent 5 per cent of its ad budget online, but after several successful campaigns on social media sites including YouTube and Twitter last year, Jetstar has decided that social media is a better investment as traditional advertising – such as television, print and radio – becomes increasingly expensive.