Tag Archives: twitter

Mega IA: Thinking Outside the Box

By Georgia Otto | Published: 11.18.2009
For the November meeting of the NHUPA, I did a 10-minute talk about the effects of social media on information architecture. This blog entry provides some additional resources for anyone interested in doing further research on the topic. You can also download the original slides and handout. For those who missed the presentation, I’ll give you a [...]
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Allowing Integration is Key to any Webapp’s Success

By Georgia Otto | Published: 06.22.2009
The web, as we know it today, provides a wide array of applications and social media tools, which we all use in different ways. One day, I was feeling quite overwhelmed by my own use of the web, and attempted to draw a diagram of how my various web applications were interconnected by the flow [...]
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Tweetizen – A Simpler Way to Group Tweets

By Georgia Otto | Published: 04.25.2009
I’m sure a lot of you wish you could split the people you follow on Twitter into groups based on friends, family, co-workers, or subject matter. Well you can. Maybe you’ve tried TweetDeck or PeopleBrowsr – both of which can do this, among many other things. You have to download TweetDeck and (correct me if [...]
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Three Tools to Generate Background Patterns

By Georgia Otto | Published: 01.7.2009
If you’re looking for a quick way to add a nice looking background pattern to your website, blog or twitter profile, here are a few options – besides the Tartan Maker and Stripe Generator I mentioned in an earlier entry: PatternCooler – With over 31,000 designs to browse, you’re sure to find something here that will [...]
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Top Ten Twitter Tools To Try Today

By Georgia Otto | Published: 12.29.2008
Alliteration is fun. Anyway, what follows is a list of what I believe are the top 10 tools to use with Twitter, roughly in order of usefulness:
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Snippage: Make Desktop Widgets From Any Site

By Georgia Otto | Published: 12.24.2008
Want to read someone’s tweets without actually following them on Twitter? Or perhaps you’d like to put a stock ticker or eBay listing on your desktop where you can keep an eye on it? Snippage let’s you create desktop widgets which display small portions of any website and refresh automatically every few minutes. They’re similar [...]
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Tutorial: Building Your Ultimate Social Networking Console

By Georgia Otto | Published: 12.19.2008
With hundreds of social networking websites in a constant cycle of death and rebirth, it’s fairly common for one person to have multiple accounts. Here is how you can use your iGoogle page to view and update all your social networks from a single console. For the more advanced users, I’ve included some extra tips.
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Setting the Stage – Thoughts on “Web 2.0″

By Georgia Otto | Published: 12.1.2008
Let’s get this Web 2.0 talk out of the way – does anyone else feel like it might be just a little bit out of control? I figured I’d use the special occasion of my first post as an excuse to lay down some ground rules. Well, really just one: This blog is not about [...]
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