The iNetGlobal Conference Launches today at 11:00 am CST. There is a big team here from all over including as far away as Canada, UK and China. We will be broadcasting the event live on www.V-Cast.TV

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iNetGlobal Conference

It should be an exciting weekend. We have a lot of great things planned, including our awards ceremony tomorrow. This will be 2 days of Non Stop Excitement & Fun at the historic Palace Station Hotel & Casino right in the heart
of the Las Vegas strip!

The Conference will be held in the beautiful Trax Theater host to some of Las Vegas’ most popular entertainers.

Las Vgas is beautiful this time of year, it is 100* out side, but the dry desert heat is a a nice change from the Minnesota weather we are used to.

Special Guest Speakers include: NFL All Star: Joey Browner

Blue Diamond Executive: Jim Eng - Minnesota

Blue Diamond Executive: Annie Zhang - Toronto

Platinum Executive: Andy Anderson - Las Vegas

Business Opportunity Meeting - Product and Compensation Plan Training
Awards Ceremony - VIP Dinner - Network Party - Dancing & Fun!

Schedule Of Events:

Here is the Event Schedule:

  • Friday Night: Informal gathering at Jacks Pub 7:00 - 9:00 PM
  • Saturday Registration at 8:30 am
  • Conference Starts Promptly at 9:00 am Saturday
  • Business Opportunity Meeting 9:00 - 10:15
  • Q & A Session 10:15 - 10:30
  • Morning Training Session 10:30 - 12:00
  • Lunch Break - 12:00 - 1:30
  • Afternoon Training Session 1:30 - 3:00
  • Q & A Session 3:00 4:00 pm
  • VIP Dinner 6:00 - 7:00
  • Saturday Night Networking Party 7:30 - 9:00 PM
    Dancing & Craziness 9:00 - to whenever… Jacks Pub

Bonkers Comedy Club Show featuring Comedian Pam Matteson 10:00
(This is an optional fun activity that is going on if you would like to attend)


We Are Giving Out Over $20,000 In Cash Awards!

  • Sunday Registration at 8:30 am
  • Conference Starts Promptly at 9:00 am Sunday
  • Morning Training Session 9:00 - 11:30
  • Q & A Session 11:30 - 12:00
  • Lunch Break - 12:00 - 1:30
  • Awards Ceremony 1:30 - 3:00
  • Q & A Session 3:00 4:00 pm
  • End Of Conference 4:00 pm

We look forward to seeing you here. If you cannot attend be sure to tune in for the WebCast.

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Get Frank Kern’s Mass Control FREE!

Frank Kern is back with Mass Control 2.0 The actual physical version of his Best Selling Course goes on sale today. I have Franks course and have to say is is very good.

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In the Video Frank explains the course in detail, in a classic Infomercial Style.

Franks approach to selling is very calculated to get into the mind of the prospect and create the Desire to want what you have to offfer, making the sales process much easier and profitable.

One of the true Internet Marketing geniuses of our time, I highly recommend you pick up this course. There is a limited quantity available so don’t wait, or you will miss out.

Click Here To Get Mass Control For FREE!

By the way, for 10 people only who want to grab Franks course, I will match it dollar for dollar with AdPacs, so you will be getting the course for FREE!

This offer is good for One Day Only!

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Found a cool article written by a guy named  Abhijeet Mukherjee I thought you might enjoy.  I ran across it in a Post on Twitter, by none other than the infamous @PerryBelcher.

15 Awesome Tutorial Websites

online-tutorialsIf I were forced to choose an aspect of the internet that made it simply indispensable, it would definitely be its availability as a huge learning resource.

20 years ago, who would have thought that one would have easy access to already completed business documents, research papers of world class universities, free encyclopedias and some great books, no matter where he or she is located in the world.

The internet also boasts of accommodating tutorials to absolutely anything. Here are 15 such super-useful sites which aim to provide you with all the tutorials you’d ever need.


  1. How Stuff Works

    How Stuff Works is probably the best known How-to tutorials site. It has has a vast and diverse collection with topics ranging from food, health, computers, etc. One of the best things about this site is that it explains even the toughest tutorial in a very simple and easy to understand language.
  2. YouTube
    Surprised? Well, it shouldn’t be if you use YouTube a lot. Yesterday my younger brother bought a new guitar and the very first thing he needed to do was to tune it. So he just logged on, went to youtube.com and searched for “How to tune a guitar”. And there you go! He had a nice video explaining the process step-by-step.
  3. eHow
    eHow is another comprehensive tutorials website with detailed instructions on how to do just about anything. Like How Stuff Works, this site also covers a wide range of topics.
  4. About.com’s Video Tutorials
    About.com’s video tutorial site has a
    collection
    of very informative how-to videos and screencasts on topics which include Parenting, Style, Electronics and Gadgets, etc. I found the
    collection
    to be very comprehensive and probably better than You Tube’s
    collection
    of similar videos.
  5. wikiHow
    wikiHow, as it says, is an editable How-to site with 40,100 articles contributed by volunteers from different parts of the world. You’re sure to find some nice tutorials here too.
  6. Instructables
    Instructables is a cool Do-It-Yourself site that has an extensive
    collection
    of user submitted how-to articles and easy instructions complete with videos and photographs. It’s a community driven website where you can submit content, vote and comment on existing content.
  7. Wired’s How-To Wiki
    Wired magazine’s how-to wiki has some very elaborate and detailed tutorials focussed primarily on topics like Gadgets, Technology and Computers. You can also subscribe to its RSS feed to get them the new how-to articles directly in your feed reader.
  8. PC World’s How-to Site
    PC World, one of the best tech journals available, also has a how to site that publishes
    technology
    focused tutorials related to various electronic gadgets, hardware and software applications.
  9. VideoJug
    When it comes to how-to video tutorial sites, VideoJug is probably the largest and most comprehensive. It has videos on varied subjects like choosing a new hairstyle, playing golf, installing windows or how to kiss someone passionately.
  10. W3Schools
    W3Schools is a first class web development tutorials website which provides easy reference guides on languages like HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript. All the tutorials are free and nicely explained through various examples.
  11. NETTUTS And PSDTUTS
    NETTUTS and PSDTUTS are sister sites, in fact blogs, and definitely one of the best online resources on
    web development
    and Photoshop skills. NETTUTS explores
    web development
    and designing in detail while PSDTUTS provides some world-class
    Adobe Photoshop tutorials.
  12. 5min
    5min is a video tutorial site with a difference- the videos are short and no more than 5 mins. Like other video sites, this too covers a wide range of topics, however it’s yet to take on sites like VideoJug in the online video tutorial space.
  13. SuTree
    Sutree aggregates the best video tutorials from other video sites and covers a variety of topics like softwares, games, pets & animals etc. Like instructables, SuTree is also a community driven website and lets you find videos through tags and subscribe to the RSS feed of the site.
  14. VTC
    Although VTC is not entirely free to use, it does provide some nice tutorials on software and business applications. Out of around 66,000 tutorials, it provides 12,500 for free.
  15. Good Tutorials
    Good Tutorials has a nice
    collection
    of
    graphic design tutorials which it aggregates through various
    web design sites and blogs. And yes, it’s free to use !

So overall, with the exception of VTC, all the other sites are completely free and can certainly fetch you any tutorial you can ever imagine. Hope you enjoy using them. :)

Cheers,

Abhijeet

Written by Abhijeet Mukherjee. You can catch him at Jeet Blog where he blogs about different Web 2.0 apps and online tools and how they can help you become more productive. Photo Credit:
LizMarie

Hey cool, thanks Abhijeet and @PerryBelcher > you never know what kind of cool stuff you can come at Twitter. Every day is a new adventure!

Oh by the way are you on Twitter Yet?

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How To Make Money Online > Now there’s an overworked and often pretentious title. How many people selling Make Money Online type stuff actually make any money?

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How To Make Money Online

Making Money Online is not hard, it’s a matter of having a few simple things all working together. In over 10 years of making my living working on the Internet, I have discovered there really is no big secret or mystery to it, all you really need is a good plan to follow, and to put consistent, persistent effort into it. (In other words “Take Action”)

The Internet is constantly changing at the speed of light, and the one thing you can count on is Change. And, you need to be able to roll with these changes if you are going to Successful. I know this sounds kind of weird, but it the way it is. If you get to stuck on doing something one way, you may get left in the dust, wondering what happened.

I call it Follow The Money. You will find out that you may try a lot of different things before you really find something what works for you. That’s normal, and it’s OK. Once you find something that’s working, then follow that and see where it leads you. If it’s working you can “Ramp Up” and go for all it’s worth.

I think there are 1,000’s of different ways to Make Money Online but they all have a few simple components in common.

  • Find A Hungry Market
  • Create Products and Services for this market
  • Sell it to them
  • Repeat the process

Now this may seem overly simplified, but this is exactly how it’s done. Now it doesn’t matter if you have your own product or not. You can always sell someone else’s product. Eventually you will want to have your own product or service, this is how you can make the most money.

You need to find what works for you, and what you are comfortable with.

If you are just getting started I would suggest that you become an Affiliate for someone else’s product or service. Affiliate Marketing is a fast way to get started. Once you get a little success under your Then you can expand.

Now you may be the type of person who would do better working in a structured Network Marketing program. Network Marketing is a great way to Make Money working with other people who all have a similar and common interest. Network Marketing on the Internet is really cool as you can do everything online.

Finding the right Network Marketing program can be a challenge. You need to find one that is right for you. A lot of Network Marketing programs are based in the Health and Weight Loss industry.

One very cool program is based in the Internet Service industry, with a company called iNetGlobal . iNetGlobal provides services to the Internet Marketing industry. Geared to small and home based business persons iNetGlobal provides the essential services businesses need to market effectively online.

You can check it out at >> www.inetglobal.com

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06Jun

101 Twitter Tools For Business

Posted by Steve Renner as Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0

Now, mainstream business is recognizing that Twitter as an incredible tool for communication, and more.  Here is a cool list of 101 Twitter Tools you can use for your business.

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Twitter Tools For Business

Twitter Analytics

Is your business popular and influential on Twitter…  Check out these tools, they can tell you how you’re doing.

  1. Twitter Grader: Learn your Twitter grade, your local Twitter Elite, and find new people to follow through Twitter Grader.
  2. Twitterholic: Check out the top Twitter users and find out your Twitter stats on Twitterholic.
  3. TweetStats: TweetStats offers a graphical analysis of your Twitter stats.
  4. Twitter Friends: Carefully measure your Twitter conversations using Twitter Friends.
  5. Twinfluence: Twinfluence will measure your Twitter influence based on reach, velocity, and social capital.
  6. Tweetwasters: Find out how much time you and other users waste on Twitter.
  7. Tweet-Rank: Learn about the quality of your tweets by finding out which ones won or lost followers.
  8. Mr. Milestone: Get a tweet when you reach various milestones using this Twitter tool.
  9. Retweetrank: Find out how many retweets you and other Twitter users have through this service.

Tweet Market Research

You can use these tools, to gather information, for market research, for blog posts, and to spy on the competition.

  1. search.tEarn.com: Unique, social network for viewing photos and videos on any topic and chatting with Twitter users interested in the same subject. Search on any topic.
  2. @myflightinfo: Use @myflightinfo to stay updated on your flight’s status.
  3. Twitterverse: Check out archived timelines and tweets through Twitterverse.
  4. Twitscoop: Twitscoop shares what’s hot on Twitter at any given moment.
  5. Twitbuzz: Twitbuzz tracks the latest conversations as well as popular Twitter links.
  6. StrawPoll: Use StrawPoll to make sharing your opinion as easy as sending an @reply.
  7. Retweetist: This service ranks the hottest links being retweeted on Twitter.
  8. Monitter: Get real time keyword monitoring on Twitter from Monitter.
  9. TweetNews: TweetNews ranks stories based on the amount of related tweets.
  10. TwitterBuzz: TwitterBuzz will tell you what’s being linked to the most on Twitter.
  11. Tweetscan: Set up Tweetscan to make sure you don’t miss any @replies, and to get alerted of your search queries.

Tweet Social Networking

Find other Twitter users who are interested in your products and services.

  1. Twitter Local: With this service, you can see tweets from Twitter users in a specific location.
  2. Twubble: Twubble will expand your Twitter bubble, picking out people you may like to follow.
  3. MyCleenr: Sort your friends by their last tweets, and you can get rid of the inactive and useless accounts you’re following.
  4. Follow Cost: This tool will tell you how much effort it takes to follow someone.
  5. Tweepler: Use Tweepler to organize your tweeps based on whether you’re following them or not.
  6. Just Tweet It: Find Tweeple, tools, Twitter bots and more through this directory.
  7. TweetWheel: TweetWheel will help you discover which of your Twitter friends know each other.
  8. SocialToo: SocialToo will help you keep track of all of the people who have followed or unfollowed you.
  9. Twitoria: Reduce your clutter on Twitter by finding your friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time.
  10. TwitDir: With TwitDir, you’ll be able to search for people, and exploring categories including top followers and updaters.
  11. Who Should I Follow?: Using this site, you can get good recommendations for Tweeps to follow.
  12. Nearbytweets: Learn about all of the Twitter users in a specific area with the help of Nearbytweets.
  13. Twellow: Find Twitter users in a specific industry using this service.
  14. Mr. Tweet: Mr. Tweet is a personal networking assistant for Twitter, helping you find relevant followers.
  15. Qwitter: Qwitter will help you manage your network by sending an alert when a person unfollows you.

Manage Your Twitter Account

Build your Twitter following fast with these tools.

  1. Summize: Retrieve information on Twitter quickly to search Twitter in real time.
  2. Tweet O’Clock: Trying to reach someone? Tweet O’Clock will help you find the best time to get their attention.
  3. Just Signal: Set up a filter using Just Signal to get only the tweets that discuss the keywords you’d like to read about.
  4. TweepSearch: Put your Twitter network to good use and search your followers for specific parameters.
  5. Friend or Follow: Manage your Twitter contacts and find out who’s not following you back through Friend or Follow.
  6. TwitResponse: TwitResponse makes it easy for you to schedule the delivery of your tweets ahead of time.
  7. TwitterSnooze: Put the pause button on a particular user for a while with Twitter Snooze.
  8. Twitterless: Get notified when someone stops following you with Twitterless.
  9. Twilert: Track specific keywords to receive alerts for using Twilert.
  10. Tweetdeck: Tweetdeck has a groups function that will help you more efficiently follow the people you really want to listen to.
  11. Twalala: Put the mute button on certain people and topics for a while if you are receiving lots of updates you’re not really interested in.

Tweet Sharing Tools

Promote your business, share photos, and more using these Twitter tools.

  1. Tweetburner: Use Tweetburner to share links, and you can track their usage.
  2. Twitpic: Twitpic makes it easy to take mobile phone photos and share them using your Twitter account.
  3. TwitterHawk: Get targeted marketing on Twitter through TwitterHawk.
  4. Acamin: Acamin makes it easy to share files on Twitter with your followers.
  5. Glue: Post links to books, movies, restaurants and more on Twitter through Glue.
  6. Ping.fm: This service will update all of your social networks at once.
  7. TweeTube: TweeTube makes it easy to share videos on Twitter.
  8. twiggit: Use this automated service to share the articles you digg on Twitter.
  9. Twisten.fm: Share what you’re listening to on Twitter through Twisten.fm.


Now Get Organized

Use these  tools to automate Twitter Tasks.

  1. Twittercal: Link your Twitter account and Google Calendar to easily keep up with your events and appointments.
  2. Timer: Use Timer to get reminders about tasks through your Twitter account.
  3. TwitterNotes: Organize your notes using Twitter with TwitterNotes.
  4. Remember the Milk: Use Remember the Milk on Twitter to update your to do list.
  5. Tweetake: Tweetake will back up your Twitter timeline for archiving and more.
  6. Nozbe: Nozbe makes it easy to add and update your to do list on Twitter.
  7. Toodledo: This popular to do list app integrates nicely with Twitter.
  8. TrackThis: Send TrackThis your tracking number, and you’ll get Twitter messages every time there’s a change in location.
  9. Joint Contact: Get project management productivity on Twitter using Joint Contact.
  10. Tempo: This time tracking tool allows you to send in updates from Twitter.
  11. Tweet Later: Tweet Later offers a great way to set up alerts, schedule tweets, send thank you DMs, and more.
  12. OutTwit: OutTwit will make it easy for you to use Twitter inside of Outlook.
  13. Jott: Jott makes it easy for you to tweet without ever having to type, transcribing your voice message to Twitter.

Twitt Tools To Manage Your Life

Build relationships, manage your daily affairs.

  1. MyMileMarker: Keep track of your mileage with info sent via Twitter every time you fill up.
  2. 21Tweets: 21Tweets offers personal coaching on Twitter.
  3. TwtTRIP: Organize your travel plans and find other Twitter travelers on your way with TwtTRIP.
  4. Tweet Answers: Twitter Answers makes it easy to ask questions and get answers on Twitter.
  5. Twtvite: Twtvite is a simple event organizer that will help you create a tweetup.
  6. Vacatweet: Set up an autoresponder for your Twitter account with Vacatweet.
  7. plusplusbot: Share when someone goes out of their way to help you, or otherwise make your feelings known using plusplusbot.
  8. TrackDailyGoals: Use this site and the #dailygoals hashtag to keep track of your goals every day.
  9. ConnectTweet: Put the voices of your group or business together through ConnectTweet.
  10. Tweeteorology: Find tweets about the weather in any location through Tweeteorology.
  11. DreamTweet: Keep a reminder of your dreams and nightmares, and follow the dreams of others through DreamTweet.

It’s All About Money

Tools to manage your finances through Twitter.

  1. Chipin: If you’re raising funds on Twitter, make use of Chipin to set a goal and let your supporters track the progress of the campaign.
  2. Xpenser: You can Twitter your expenses to Xpenser and they will be recorded for you.
  3. Twittertise: Schedule your tweets and track their clickthroughs with this app designed for Twitter advertising.
  4. TwtQpon: Create simple Twitter coupons for your business with TwtQpon.
  5. CheapTweet: Get all of the deals, sales, coupons and more being discussed on Twitter through CheapTweet.
  6. Tipjoy: Like Chipin, Tipjoy offers a way to create social payments for your cause, content, or people.
  7. SalesTwit: Get contact management for Twitter with the help of SalesTwit.
  8. Tweet What You Spend: Track your cash in a really effective way using Tweet What You Spend.
  9. StockTwits: StockTwits shares the investment discussions on Twitter in real time.

Tweet For Better Health

Health and Wellness tools.

  1. Qwitter: Update Qwitter to shame yourself into quitting smoking.
  2. TweetPlot: Use TweetPlot to chart your food and fitness statistics.
  3. Tweetwhatyoueat: Keep a food diary to track what you’re eating every day using Tweetwhatyoueat.
  4. gtFtr: Use the gtFtr tool to record your exercise activity on Twittr.
  5. SugarStats: Track, monitor, and share your blood sugar through Twitter with SugarStats.
  6. FoodFeed: This Twitter-based food log makes it easy for you to track what you’re eating.

Tweet / Blog Tools

Add Twitter to your Blog with these tools.

  1. Add to Any: Get your posts shared on Twitter by using Add to Any on your WordPress blog.
  2. TwitThis: Make use of this plugin to send Twitter messages about your blog post.
  3. MyTwitter: Use the MyTwitter plugin to display your Twitter status on WordPress.
  4. Twitpress: Twitpress will send out a Tweet every time you post a new blog entry.
  5. TwitterCounter: With this plugin, you can display the number of followers you have on Twitter.
  6. TwitterFeed: Announce your blog post on Twitter with a customized message using TwitterFeed.
  7. FriendFeed: Announce your blog post on Twitter.

Find out more about my Latest Twitter Tool > TweetElite

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After years of being promoted in the Internet Marketing Community as a means of getting traffic and customers, Social Media is no longer this quirky thing for kids, it is working it’s way into the main stream. Businesses now realize that Social Media is the future of Marketing.

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Marketing Budgets Are Moving To Social Media

Social Media for business is really all about creating relationships with customers. More than just throwing out a bunch of content, it’s about engaging with your customers, being involved with a the online community, find out what they want and give it to them.

Most businesses now realize that they need to be involved with social media, but don’t know exactly what to do.Most business owners go into social media without a plan or an idea of what they are doing and wonder why they are not getting results.

They need to design and implement a clear Marketing Strategy for Social Media, Blogging as well as Online advertising, and Internet Marketing in general.

Then it’s a matter of tracking the results, from traffic, optins, to sales conversions, and find out what is working, and what is not.

In a study by Marketingsherpa (2008 Study of Social Media Marketing & PR ), social media ranked #1 as a marketing budget line item for businesses, for increased funding next to email marketing.

And there’s good reason to get involved in Social Media, as Companies that properly plan and implement a Social Media Marketing Strategy can benefits through:

  • Being Recognized as Experts in their field
  • Improving customer relationships
  • Improve customer acquisiition
  • Reduce costs for customer service
  • Improved search engine rankings
  • Increase brand awareness
  • Increase bottom line  sales conversions

Social Media is the Future of Marketing and at V-Media Marketing we help businesses to navigate the Maze and Confusion of Online Marketing and get real Solutiuons and Results.

For more information about V-Medai contact us at 612 460-4797

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04Jun

Twitter Time

Posted by Steve Renner as Twitter, Web 2.0, media

The phenomenon of Twitter has hit Time Magazine in an article by Steve Johnson entitled How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live.  What was once seen as  just a passing fad has become a way of life…

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Biz Stone - Evan Williams - Founders Of Twitter

The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It’s not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, “If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal.”

I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom ’90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams was launching a communications platform that limited you to a couple of sentences at most. What was next? Software that let you send a single punctuation mark to describe your mood? (See the top 10 ways Twitter will change American business.)

And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds. The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this “ambient awareness”: by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don’t think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.

The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn’t be taken lightly. But I think there is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we’ve jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.

In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it’s doing to us. It’s what we’re doing to it.

The Open Conversation
Earlier this year i attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists, all engaged in a sprawling six-hour conversation about the future of schools. Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants. Ten years ago, a transcript might have been published weeks or months later on the Web. Five years ago, a handful of participants might have blogged about their experiences after the fact. (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds.)

But this event was happening in 2009, so trailing behind the real-time, real-world conversation was an equally real-time conversation on Twitter. At the outset of the conference, our hosts announced that anyone who wanted to post live commentary about the event via Twitter should include the word #hackedu in his 140 characters. In the room, a large display screen showed a running feed of tweets. Then we all started talking, and as we did, a shadow conversation unfolded on the screen: summaries of someone’s argument, the occasional joke, suggested links for further reading. At one point, a brief argument flared up between two participants in the room — a tense back-and-forth that transpired silently on the screen as the rest of us conversed in friendly tones.

At first, all these tweets came from inside the room and were created exclusively by conference participants tapping away on their laptops or BlackBerrys. But within half an hour or so, word began to seep out into the Twittersphere that an interesting conversation about the future of schools was happening at #hackedu. A few tweets appeared on the screen from strangers announcing that they were following the #hackedu thread. Then others joined the conversation, adding their observations or proposing topics for further exploration. A few experts grumbled publicly about how they hadn’t been invited to the conference. Back in the room, we pulled interesting ideas and questions from the screen and integrated them into our face-to-face conversation.

When the conference wrapped up at the end of the day, there was a public record of hundreds of tweets documenting the conversation. And the conversation continued — if you search Twitter for #hackedu, you’ll find dozens of new comments posted over the past few weeks, even though the conference happened in early March.

Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles.

So there it is, in Main Stream Media, I wonder if Johnson actually has a Twitter account? There are a lot of Steve Johnsons on there.

Anyway check out my new Twitter Software “TweetElite“. I used this software to add 10,000 new Followers to my account in 30 days.

I also will be posting a new series of Free Twitter Training Videos!

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02Jun

China Blocks Twitter

Posted by Steve Renner as Internet Marketing, Social Media

China Blocks Twitter >  Censorship by a government has got to be the worst possible injustice to any citizen of our planet.  Now, after blocking YouTube they are going after Twitter and other Social Media sites.

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photo courtesy of:  China Economic Net

Here is a report from the Silicone Valley / San Jose Business Journal

Reports from China Tuesday said that Twitter, Yahoo Inc.’s Flickr and other popular social media and Web sites have been blocked there two days before the anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square.

Chinese authorities have a history of being uncomfortable with their inability to control what gets said on the Internet, most recently shutting off access to Google Inc.’s YouTube site in March after footage was posted showing the country’s China’s crackdown on protests last year by Tibetans.

June 4 is one of their most sensitive dates, marking the anniversary of when tanks were sent into Tiananmen to crush weeks of student and worker protests, killing an untold number of them.

China is a fast emerging market, especially for Internet Business. I have a number of friends from China, and we do a lot of business there. In fact we are looking at opening an office there. This type of government censorship is scary…

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