Social Publishing
Twitter Tuesday: Scheduling and other automation
One of the popular things to do on Twitter is sharing links to websites, articles, images and videos. In order to ease the sharing process and make sure they are sharing everything, many users are automating their Tweets. Services such as dlvr.it and twitterfeed or HootSuite provide ways to autotweet content and schedule Tweets. I used to do this for my blog posts as well. There has been some really good examples lately of how scheduling can be go terribly wrong. Right after the Aurora shooting a Twitter account belonging to NRA Tweeted: "Good morning shooters. Happy Friday! We...
Cure for social media exhaustion
Do you ever get that feeling you want to close all your social media accounts, stop blogging and throw your computer out of the window? Well, maybe I'm exaggerating now. However I'm guessing you unfortunately know that feeling of being tired, bored and frustrated with all the sharing, pinning, plussing and Tweeting. The social media exhaustion. I know that feeling. And I know a cure for it. Or a way out of it, if that sounds more appropriate. I have noticed that each time I get to this point, changing something helps. Be sure to really want the change. Due to all the changes those who have...
Twitter Tuesday: Of profile pictures
You can upload a picture on your profile on Twitter. The picture is shown by each one of your Tweets and of course on your profile page as well. It's part of how your followers identify you and your Tweets, as they skim their Twitter feed. Therefore it's recommended to have a distinct picture and not to change it too often. Headshots are usually the best, some use logos as well. The problem with logos is they don't show personality and people like to follow and communicate with people. I highly recommend to upload a profile picture, if you want to actively use the service. The...
Twitter Tuesday: #hashtag #mania
Hashtags are the way to label, sort of categorize, Tweets. They consist of one word (no gaps, apostrophes or other special characters) starting with the hash sign (#). You can search and track hashtags to keep up on Tweets over certain topics. And they are widely overused. At first the hashtags were just something the Twitter users did. It wasn't any sort of a built-in feature of Twitter and back then only third party sites were offering any decent ways to follow and track them. Actually hashtags originate from IRC where they were used to label channels. Soon after they got a quite popular...
Get more likes on Instagram
I don't have that many followers on Instagram. Not a popular kid around there, you know. So up until lately my photos have received quite a little buzz if any. Up until lately, when I started to do a couple of new things. The following tips are based on my own experiences. Oh and if you are interested to see my photos, just follow me. See you around! Use hashtags Like on Twitter and then some, you can use hashtags on Instagram. Hashtags such as #food or #cameras. Use popular hashtags (see what other's use). Be sure your image actually fits the tag so you won't be seen as a spammer. B...
Twitter Tuesday: My story
Since I've been doing these Twitter Tuesdays for eleven weeks now (that's over two months!) I decided it's time to tell what's my story and approach on Tweeting. I joined Twitter four years ago, in June 2008. Back then it was still sort of an upcoming service. There were quite little active users (compared to now) and the celebrities hadn't taken it over yet. Back then teens didn't write Tweets at all. When I joined the world of microbloggin Jaiku was still kind of thriving. It had potential and it was extremely popular amongst tech folks and especially my fellow Finns. I never really li...
Twitter Tuesday: Mind your (bio) language
Recently I noticed something funny about Finnish users' Twitter bios. Bio is that short, less than 160 characters long description on a Twitter profile. The thing I noticed about the Finns' bios was they often had a description on English, while they were tweeting (mostly) in Finnish. It doesn't seem like biggie, but actually the bio is kind of a business card of a Twitter user. Or a handshake. A good bio isn't just a description of the person, but it also tells what to expect from their Tweets. If a person writes on their bio they are a social media something, I expect them t...
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