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Tweetcloud is super cool!

derrek.cooper — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:20:14 +0000

Check out Tweetcloud. It creates a cool looking cloud of your tweet history. You get to choose how far back. I have to say, its pretty accurate but I suspect it doesn’t check “#” (hastags). I think people that would agree that I arguably tweet a bit too much about phish and that didn’t make the list.

My Tweetcloud

How to Virtually Attend SolidWorks World 2009 via Twitter

derrek.cooper — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:17:00 +0000

Unfortunately, I will be missing SolidWorks World 2009 this year. Not to worry, fortunately, many of the SW fanatics and even some employees will be delivering the blow by blow commentary via Twitter.

For those not familiar with Twitter, dig in and try and catch up. For those that are familiar, check out the little beauty below that I snagged from Gabi Jack’s site (yea, thankfully, she is tweeting from #SWW09).

Leave it to the crew at SolidWorks and their legion of dedicated users to yet again, be thinking out of the box and leading the charge. Surely not the only vendor leveraging twitter, but there is a fairly large presence of SW folks tweeting. Check out this SolidSmack list..

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Follow CFdesign on Twitter

derrek.cooper — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:53:00 +0000

I wrote about Twitter a few weeks ago. I kind of thought it was this neat little tool that allowed me to stay in touch with similar minded people. I am beginning to appreciate how much twitter or tweets can be used to keep customers up to date on the latest and greatest.

It is interesting to me how many medias that we can use to stay connected and informed. Each person is different. Some people think Twitter, for example, takes time and effort. Others of us think that it saves a tremendous amount of time capturing information.

My New Fascination: Twitter

derrek.cooper — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:21:00 +0000

As we speak, I am sitting in London, heading home after a week of traveling in Europe on business. Spent my time split between England and Germany. I had a chance to dig a bit deeper into microblogging a bit. I’ll leave it up to the wikipedia link to give you a background and history on microblogging. In a nutshell, it is a fast way to keep those in your “circle” up to date on what you are up to. The concept exists on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites. But probably the most popular is twitter.

A few people responded to my blog posts and asked when I was going to get into tweeting, twitter etc.. I’ll be honest, I didn’t get it at first. I then saw this post on demogirl.com and it began to make a bit more sense. But then saw the awesome video below and it sealed the deal for me.

I am now a huge fan and somewhat obsessed with twitter. For a guy that travels a ton and really likes to stay connected, it is a perfect outlet to stay in touch with friends and family. I am definitely relatively new to the whole thing and we’ll see how long it lasts, but if you are interested, you can find me here.