Alex de Carvalho

Twitter updates for 2009-05-11

by Alex. Average Reading Time: about 2 minutes.

  • RT @cmwooll: Com­ing to #PRACC work­shop tomor­row with @sky­diver and @alexdc ? tweet with #PRACC so we can fol­low the con­ver­sa­tion! #
  • Not a cloud in the sky. On the road now, on my way to Naples for #pracc con­fer­ence w/ @cmwool @print­page @sky­diver #
  • Naples Bay Resort: very nice. #pracc http://pikchur.com/72h #
  • Meet­ing up w/ Peter Shankman @skydiver, talk­ing about @astro_mike http://pikchur.com/72o #
  • RT @AnnLuck Wow, StartPR.com is amaz­ing! I had no idea peo­ple were talk­ing about my com­pany on twit­ter! (thanks!) #
  • The sun sets on The Miami Her­ald http://www.flickr.com/photos/adc/3518124003/ (Flickr) #
  • Just learned we need to bor­row a pro­jec­tor for tomorrow’s #SMCSF meetup. Can any­one in Miami or Broward help? It’s from 7-9pm #
  • “Mak­ing Social Media Part of Your Mar­ket­ing Mix” #pracc http://pikchur.com/73v #
  • Can some­one con­firm this? RT @gaillamarche: Dell makes $1mill a day on twit­ter via @alexdc #pracc @richar­dat­dell @lionelat­dell @bri­an­bres­lin #
  • “Dell says Twit­ter pro­duced $1million in rev­enue over the past year and a half through sale alerts” http://bit.ly/Ljoxd #pracc @gail­la­marche #
  • “Just because the tools are there doesn’t give you the right to use them.” @sky­diver on social media #pracc #
  • “The rea­son things get too big to fail is because no one knows what they’ve been doing” @sky­diver on trans­parency #pracc #
  • RT @brianbreslin: the Dell fig­ure was for first yr of sales via @delloutlet, but they’ve grown from 12k to 480k fol­low­ers since feb2 #pracc #
  • “The aver­age age of the nightly news viewer is … dead.” @sky­diver on rel­e­vance #pracc #
  • “The press release as we know it will be dead within 24 months” @sky­diver on rel­e­vance #pracc #
  • “What replaces the press release is rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion to the right influ­encers in the way they want it” @sky­diver on rel­e­vance #pracc #
  • “I have about 1,400 domain names. I know … admit­ting you have a prob­lem is the first step.” @sky­diver #pracc #
  • RT @ShelleyA: @alexdc And jour­nal­ists with over­stuffed email boxes won’t be sad­dened by the press release’s demise. #pracc #
  • “The aver­age atten­tion span of the MTV gen­er­a­tion is 3 min­utes. Today it’s 140 char­ac­ters. That’s 2.7 sec­onds to hook them” @sky­diver #pracc #
  • “We live in a soci­ety where we expect to be treated like crap. Treat every­one well, they’ll be fans for life” @sky­diver — top of mind #pracc #
  • “It’s so much fun to be smart on the web because so many are not. Be a lit­tle smarter than every­one else.” @sky­diver #pracc #
  • The Poken relies on net­work effects http://www.doyoupoken.com See also Min­gle­Stick @sky­diver #pracc #
  • There’s a sim­ple post­ing rule: Preacher — Par­ent — Boss. If it offends any of these, don’t post it. @sky­diver #pracc #
  • The sec­ond a photo is taken, it is pub­lic. Don’t do stu­pid things. @sky­diver #pracc #
  • “You don’t know every­thing about me. You know exactly what I want you to know. And that is a good strat­egy.” @sky­diver #pracc #
  • “If you’re not hav­ing fun, ask your­self what you’re doing wrong.” Peter Shankman @sky­diver #pracc #
  • RT @RichardatDELL: @alexdc the answer is Dell made $1 mil­lion on Twit­ter last year #pracc @bri­an­bres­lin @gail­la­marche (Thanks, Richard) #