Tracking the occurrence of keywords in twitter through one of the automated tools is a quick way to add value to your experience.
Brands often use this approach to track mentions of their products and companies, developers can use it to track mentions of their favorite languages, frameworks, and open source projects, and anyone can use it to track mentions of their hometown, their own twitter username (to make sure you don’t miss any @replies).
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At this week’s North Shore Web Geeks meetup, Leslie Poston of Uptown Uncorked and Mashable gave a quick presentation on how to manage your online identity.
(Photo from Marc Amos via BrightKite)
You can find her own recap here (with slides). Here’s some random notes I jotted (on my phone to evernote) I found interesting:
Don’t try to actively manage identities / profiles / updates on the 600+ sites out there. Don’t let your profiles rule your life.
Instead, choose just three: she chose Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Why? Those are the ones which seem most useful to her for locating clients, getting key news updates, and keeping in touch with friends. Your three may vary.
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Open Parenthesis is a blog about free and open source software, next generation internet strategy, and the assembled web, written by John Eckman (me).
I'm a Sr. Director at Optaros, a professional services firm offering strategy, design, development, and consulting services to enterprises interested in leveraging free and open source software.
