This is the set of links that I used to demo Twitter by going down through this list to show why Twitter is such a valuable marketing tool.

Introduction

Over at the American Express Open Forum blog, I explain how to not look clueless on Twitter. The first five ways are:

1. Don’t tell other people how to tweet.

2. Don’t tell the world that you unfollowed someone.

3. Don’t ask people why they unfollowed you.

4. Don’t constantly tweet mundane updates and babble.

5. Don’t use a small picture for an avatar.

Over the weekend we upgraded Alltop to version 3. The primary functions that this version addresses are improved navigation and search. Because Alltop has grown to over 700 topics, we needed a better way for people to understand what Alltop does and to find topics that interest them.

Version 1. Circa March, 2008.

Evernote is a great service to save emails, receipts, web clippings, and pictures. Here’ s a list of fourteen ways that you can use it to organize your life. Basically, whenever I get a significant piece of information, I dump it into Evernote for archival purposes. Check it out.

Hope to see you at Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas on October 15-17, 2009. This conference is the first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting new media including: Blogging, Podcasting, Social Media, Online Video, Music, TV, Radio, Gaming, Entertainment, and Communities.

Many so-called experts are trying to fill young people with fear about what they should post in their Facebook accounts. They make the case the school admissions staff and company recruiters are going to check your Facebook page and ding you for the stupid things you did. (Who among us has not done something stupid when we were young, but I digress.)