Alex de Carvalho

Twitter updates for 2008-10-28

by Alex. Average Reading Time: about a minute.

  • It’s great to know peo­ple are get­ting work from our local mee­tups, I just heard of another case today. A solid tes­ti­mo­nial to our com­mu­nity. #
  • Of course the corol­lary to this (http://twitter.com/alexdc/status/978192107) is, the com­mu­nity is there to feed, and not just to feed off of #
  • @DearYvette Thanks… this was from Mobile Mon­day Miami. We’re final­iz­ing deets for next 2 mee­tups, hope­fully hosted by a major man­u­fac­turer #
  • How to feed your com­mu­nity? Talk about it. Bring a friend to mee­tups. Vol­un­teer to help. Write a blog post. Pub­lish pic­tures. Do a preso. #
  • @onajide I hear you. #
  • Check­ing out @lsal77’s new ser­vice, flipshake.com #
  • Whichever social media con­sul­tant or blog is advis­ing peo­ple to use auto­mated DM responses to new fol­low­ers on Twit­ter: please stop. Thanks. #
  • @swhitley I’ve been won­der­ing as well, but such advice is prob­a­bly on some blog posts some­where with “tips” on using Twit­ter. It’s too bad. #
  • @steaprok Agreed: auto­mated, tem­plated direct mes­sages com­modi­tize and dehu­man­ize us. #
  • @A_F That’s even sad­der, isn’t it? They’re old-skool mar­ket­ing experts, imho. They see every­thing as a chan­nel. #
  • @reybango Not sure about run­ning a social media work­shop soon, I’m now try­ing to set up Social Media Club South Florida. #
  • Next web and tech mee­tups in Miami / South Florida: Refresh­Mi­ami tomor­row night, Social Media Club Nov. 10th, Mobile Mon­day Dec 8th. #
  • @powersellingmom I’d love to! I’ve never been to Ocala but I’ve heard it’s nice #
  • At the screen­ing of One Water for the Ft. Laud­erdale Film Fes­ti­val #