Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26

April 26, 2009 by JD · Comments Off
Filed under: Twitter

Murphy NC – Downtown Merchants Spring Sidewalk Sale. April 25, 9-3. Rain or shine. #MurphyNC #lt #

LocalTweeps offers new way to customize your local status

April 22, 2009 by JD · 4 Comments
Filed under: Twitter, Web Services

If you’re not already aware, LocalTweeps.com offers a way to add yourself to their directory based on your local ZIP code.

Recently, I added my Twitter account to LocalTweeps.com for the 28906 ZIP code.

Today, I visited the site to see if anyone else had added their Twitter account for the Murphy, NC ZIP code. That’s when I saw that they had a new way to update your LocalTweeps status.

So, I gave it a try.

The key is to first be sure that you’re registered at LocalTweeps.com and then, when you want to update your LocalTweeps status, end the tweet with the #lt hashtag. Make sure it is the last thing in the tweet.

I also included the #MurphyNC hash tag so the tweet would show up on other sites where I’m using that. As long as the #lt comes after the other hashtag, it still works fine.

I still have some trouble with the LocalTweeps.com site’s search function now and then. If I go to their home page and click the Search link, I can enter “28906″ and almost always find myself listed in the resulting tab.

However, when I link to the same search page, it often shows nobody listed. I don’t know if that’s a bug in their code or if my browser isn’t interpreting it correctly.

Since I live in an area where there are few people on Twitter, and even fewer tweeting about local events and news, it doesn’t make a lot of difference right now.

However, since I’ll be working with my new marketing consulting clients to help them get more out of Twitter, this should become more important in the future for all of us in the 28906 ZIP code.

It’s one more piece in the puzzle for promoting businesses, people, and events in Murphy, NC.

Act on your dream!

Tags: hashtags, local, LocalTweeps

Regained access to my Feedburner feeds

April 22, 2009 by JD · Comments Off
Filed under: Blogging, RSS Feeds

About two months ago, I was wondering about the following question:

Is Aweber or Feedburner better for syndicating blog posts via email?

I still don’t have a definitive answer to that question, so I may just offer both methods, as well as the obvious RSS feed for anyone who wants to subscribe via a feed reader.

It was on March 1st that I discovered that Google had transitioned all the feeds from Feedburner.com to feedburner.google.com. I learned this by discovering that I had no access to any of my Feedburner feeds or the associated features.

After corresponding several times over the last seven weeks with several support reps, I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I checked in at feedburner.google.com to see if anything had changed.

Instead of the annoying message that I had no feeds, I found a link to login at my old account. When I followed that link, I was able to click another link to migrate my feeds to the new system.

Basically, it turned out that I had one or more feeds with URLs that conflicted and therefore they didn’t transfer any of my feeds.

Last week, I told one of the support reps to go ahead and delete the feeds that conflicted, and that must have been the key to solving the puzzle.

I’m happy to have access to these feeds, once again, and I’ve already deleted three that are no longer in use. In the next day or so, I’ll be looking at all the others and deleting all that are no longer relevant to what I’m doing.

I never suspected that it would take as long as it has to stop using old blogs and to clean up after myself from all the experiments I’ve been doing with blogging and various ways of building websites.

Now, all I have to do is try to remember what I was going to do on March 1st.

I wonder if there will be additional problems because of the migration.

If you subscribe to any of my blogs’ or other sites’ RSS feeds via Feedburner and you encounter any problems, I hope you’ll be kind enough to comment on this post and let me know.

Act on your dream!

Tags: feedburner, RSS

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12

April 12, 2009 by JD · Comments Off
Filed under: Twitter

@ImagesByCourt Good morning, Courtnie! I’m working on them. Very soon, now. #
Just listed myself in the http://localtweeps.com local Twitter directory in ZIP 28906 #MurphyNC #
@Moonvine Good morning, Joan! It’s going to be a busy day promoting Murphy businesses. Hope your Monday is great, too! #
Just listed myself in the http://localtweeps.com local Twitter directory in ZIP 28906 #
Knit a square and make a cold child warm… http://www.knit-a-square.com/ #
I just updated my Squidoo page: Murphy, NC 28906 / http://tinyurl.com/9c6sn2 #

Tags: tweets, Twitter

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05

April 5, 2009 by JD · Comments Off
Filed under: Twitter

Looking for more people to follow near Murphy, NC. #MurphyNC #
@CCGAL Good morning, Janelle. I hope you’re having a great day, today. #
@GrowWear Good morning, MiMi. I’ve been mostly offline for a few days. I’m back! (grin) #
@Zut_Radio Nova Scotia is just a little outside my local area here in the NC mountains. (grin) #
Mike Litman writes: Don’t Discount Your Value. http://tinyurl.com/your-value #
@Mastery Good morning, Jason. I was looking at a couple of your blogs earlier this morning. JD #
I just updated my Squidoo page: Images By Courtnie – Murphy, NC / http://tinyurl.com/c2vd4k #