I recently re-activated my (real) Facebook Account after 2 years. I blogged about content consumption outside Facebook here already. After 2 weeks I am fed up with it already, I uninstalled the mobile app and realized I feel much more home on Twitter. So here’s a list of reasons why I think Twitter is the … Read more
Twitter is beta testing a new service. Pay $99 per month and have all your Tweets automatically promoted. I gave it a try; in this blog I share my experience and data after using it for one week. My Twitter past and the invite I have just over 7 000 followers on Twitter. The account … Read more
In recent years it has become pretty normal to publish your thoughts and ideas as Twitter threads (see here an official how to and example). Instead of writing a blog and sharing it to your Twitter account, people like to use the minimal UI of Twitter for putting out a series of thoughts within seconds. What … Read more
I got a tip to check out this little Chrome extension called Chirp for Twitter. It makes sharing text excerpts of websites to Twitter really easy, and as that is something I do often I was looking for a little tool to help with that for quite some time. The extensions page only shows around … Read more
Fresh van Root was hired to cover the MIT Europe Conference 2017 live from the event. This is a good opportunity to share how we approach such projects. The MIT Europe Conference happens every two years in Vienna. It was hosted by the Aussenwirtschaft section of the economic chamber of commerce. Luca and I were … Read more
In the last few months, many blogs have been published on how to fix Twitter. Twitter has to make a lot of people happy. How can investors make more money, advertisers reach more consumers, power users get new features, and Twitter attract new users—all at the same time? In this post, I want to focus … Read more
Over the last 12 month I changed my reading behavior for all things digital. First of all I closed my personal Facebook Account (and Instagram Account) after discovering how much time I spent on Facebook via Rescuetime (multiple hours each week). I can’t ignore Facebook for my business, so I have an account under a … Read more
Die Zusammenstellung von seinem persönlichen Newsstream bestehend aus Blogs und klassischen Medien ist früher über den RSS Reader erfolgt. Tools wie Google Reader (von Google geschlossen) oder dem Reader Feedly (hat sich als Nachfolgeprodukt von Google Reader etabliert) richten sich aber schon eher an den fortgeschrittenen Newsjunky der weiß was er lesen will. Wer neue News-Kanäle … Read more
Vor kurzem war ich für knapp drei Monate in den USA, habe dabei nicht nur San Francisco kennengelernt, sondern hatte auch die Gelegenheit als Volunteer im Rahmen des Northern California Cherry Blossom Festivals etwas mit meinen Social Media Erfahrungen auszuhelfen. Bei diesem Festival handelt es sich um ein an zwei Wochenenden hintereinander stattfindendes Event, das … Read more
Wer aktuell die Fussball Weltmeisterschaft in Brasilien im TV verfolgt wird von der einen oder anderen Bandenwerbung Notiz nehmen. Neben den Sponsorenlogo ist dann oft noch der Twitter Hashtag zu sehen. Der Hashtag ist eben nur ein Wort, und in 2014 ist es mitunter schwierig ein eindeutig einem Unternehmen zuortenbartes und gleichzeitig Fussball-betreffenden Hashtag zu … Read more