Come Join us in Home Office Warrior Room on FriendFeed

May 24, 2008

friendfeed.jpgAs you all know, I am a big fan of “micro-blogging” and “social networking” with twitter. In fact you can follow me at my twitter home page. I have found twitter to be a very good tool for networking with fellow bloggers which have some of the same interest I do. I have even connected with new clients for G2 Web Media there too.

My twitter client of choice is twhirl. It also has a way to follow the conversations taking place on friendfeed. When I first started to follow the conversation on Friendfeed, I was overwhelmed as I was trying to follow way too many people. The other day, I narrowed it down and will be adding more as I go. Just yesterday, they added Rooms to friendfeed where you can create a group of like minded individuals where you can take the conversation one step further.

In my hope to do just that and to offer a place for home office warriors to gather and have conversations about matters dealing with working out of a home office or running a home based business, I started what I have called, Home Office Warrior Room. Please visit the link and join. And if you are not already on twitter and/or friendfeed, use the links I have provided and join, it is free. And if you want, and only if they also work from home, please invite other like minded individuals to join in on the conversation. You can also follow me on friendfeed at this LINK.

Lets get the conversations going and see where this leads us.

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Home Office Warriors — Linkedin Group

May 05, 2008

HOW.jpgWe started a new group over at Linkedin called Home office Warriors. If you are interested in joining, you can go to this LINK and sign up. I hope to see you all there soon.

Feel free to promote the group on your own blog in a post if you would like. Lets spread the word and get as many home office warriors in the network as we can. Linkedin is a great tool for networking. I have seen it used as a way to stay in contact, as well as a way to get answers to your questions.

I will soon be making a group on twitter too for Home Office Warriors. And if you want, you can follow me on twitter at @GrantGriffiths.

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The twitter Tools of a Home Office Warrior

Apr 03, 2008

images.jpegI know some of you may think I am going crazy with all this twitter stuff. But, to be honest, twitter is an outstanding marketing tool if you use it right. In fact, our traffic has increased and I have come to actually know some interesting individuals from my twitter experience. And if there is one thing I have come to discover over the last couple of weeks from twittering is this. The conversations you have and the people you come to know can lead to interesting things. Just today, I was having a twitter conversation with Laura Spencer who has a great blog called Writing Thoughts.

Anyway, Laura was looking for tools to make her twitter experience better and I being the techie geek I am, gave her a link to twitthis, a great tool to send to your twitter what you are doing at that very moment. I use twitthis to send to twitter blog post I might be reading at the moment. It is like twitter on autopilot.

Our conversation also got me to thinking, why not do a post about the tools I have discovered which make my twitter experience that much better. And quite frankly that much more productive. If there is one complaint I am getting from those who I got involved with twitter over the last few days it is that they are overwhelmed with the amount of incoming tweets. And they ask, how do you tweet all you do and find the time to do anything else. I use tools. Tools available to everyone.

Here is a list:

  • As mentioned above, twitthis is one I would not be without. Works great.
  • The next one I would not want to be without is twitterfeed. This handy little tool allows you to feed your blog post to twitter. I am only feeding one of my blogs to twitter and that is this one. I don’t want to be accused of spamming twitter with my blog post. But, this tool gives you a great way to put your blog out there to even more possible readers who just might become regular.
  • tweetpeek is another one I am currently just starting to look at . However, this one allows you to create a group of twitter feeds for your company, your industry, or you community. This might be the answer for those who want to better organize the tweets which come in.
  • One that just might come in handy is TwitPic. TwitPic allows you to share your photos on twitter. You can also use this one with your cell phone.
  • FriendFeed is another one of those tools which will help you organize all of the twitters you are following and getting in. I just wish there was an easy way to import all of the twitters I am following into friendfeed. If anyone knows how, drop a comment to this post.
  • TweetAhead gives you a way to schedule when your twits might be posted. This one has some bugs on when it actually does the tweet so I am not sure if this one will be a viable tool. Time will tell.
  • Another one I have been playing around with is TweetScan. TweetScan is a real-time search engine for twitter posts. TweetScan can also do your searches automatically and email them to you if you like.

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  • TwitterFox is a Firefox add-on that basically allows much quicker posting and responding.
  • twhirl is one that I have used and it is a good one. In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact I am already using the next one, I would use twhirl as my only twitter client.
  • The twitter client I am using is twitterrific. It is Mac only and it does cost. Only $14.95, but it cost. Twitterrific sits on your desktop like twhirl, but it takes up a very small footprint. It lets you both read and publish posts to twitter.

    • Well thats it. Those are the ones I am using or trying. I know there are others out there, but I only have so much time in the day. If you know of others I have not listed, please leave a comment to this post so we all can check them out.

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    Re-Tweeted - Top Post Titles

    Apr 02, 2008

    images.jpegProBlogger did it again. Darren asked his followers on twitter to submit their best post title from the last month on their blogs. On the next page are 116 submissions he received. I have already received traffic from Darren’s great idea and post.

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    Using the Power of Twitter — The Problogger Way

    Mar 27, 2008

    images.jpegRecently, Problogger “asked his followers on twitter to nominate their best post from the past week with a URL and title.” And Darren stopped the influx of post at 73 Top Posts from the Last Week.

    It was another great idea from Problogger that I know increased his traffic. As I saw a huge increase in my own traffic here on Home Office Warrior. Darren’s request on twitter for our best post and his use of the results is just one more example of the power of twitter. And it just shows the results of what happens when you get a link to your blog placed in a top rated blog. By participating on twitter and responded to Darren’s request, I was able to take advantage of the networking power of twitter. And quite frankly, it took no more effort than pasting a URL and a quick typing of the title of the post to get a link on Darren’s blog.

    If used as more than a way to tell your friends you are going out to dinner, twitter is a great networking, marketing tool you can use for your home based business. I started using twitter a little less than a month ago and I have already witnessed firsthand its incredible power. You owe it to yourself to check it out if you are not twittering. And if you have an account and are not using it, use it.

    To see the entire list of 73, go HERE. And be watching soon for a similar request from the Home Office Warrior. If you are not on twitter, than you will miss out. And if you are not following me @grantgriffiths, you will also miss out.

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