MediaBlather

This week Paul and David answer some common questions from their audience, and cover a wide range of suggestions on such things as their favorite add-on tools for Twitter and other social media sites. Specifically they discuss:

• Where any federal agency can download apps at Apps.gov – apps for federal government workers along with social media contacts for each federal agency
• There are lots of innovative uses of Twitter for notification, including this one from the Massachusetts Transportation Agency
• Flickr photo sharing can be used to demonstrate more than just your vacation pictures, including this page that shows you dozens of different screen shots of URL shortening services.  David’s favorite shortening service is bit.ly for the moment. Here is another innovative use by Dell with various picture collections.
• When it comes to recommended frequency of posting on blogs and Twitter,  Paul and David disagree about the specifics, you’ll have to listen to hear why, but you might want to consider timing your Tweets according to the time of day.
• Speaking of which, here are two tools that can schedule your Tweets into the future (there are lots of others and many companies offer mobile phone apps as well):  Tweetdeck and Seesmic
• There are a number of third-party Twitter tools that can help you keep track of statistics, including TweetStats which will graph when you have Tweeted.
• A number of tools can post to multiple sites with a single click or email, including Twitter, WordPress blogs, and You Tube, including Pixelpipe, Ping.fm, and Posterous.
• Some other helpful Twitter tools include Dlvr.it, which picks up RSS feeds and set rules to post to particular sites and Knowem which can help you reserve your name on hundreds of different sites quickly. There is also Tweetmeme and Wefollow, both of which can be used to follow trends and keep track of what is being Tweeted at any particular moment. Twittervision can be used to find people in your local geographic area who are active with Twitter.
• Tools to follow people in a specific industry, or share lists of Twitter users, include Listorious and  Tweepml. It seems that Buzzable has gone out of business, as Paul mentioned in the podcast.
• Quora is a site where you post questions and track answers via Tweets.

There is a lot more suggestions from both hosts. You can download the podcast (21:05) here.