Archive for the ‘Social Media Tools’ Category

What is Twine and Why You Should Use It

Twine LogoTwine is a social networking site that allows you to connect anything you find online within one inter-twined conversation. From Facebook, Myspace, Digg, De.li.cous, Bebo, Twitter, blogs,  etc… all are connected within a conversation or twine in one place.

Essentially a very robust comment stream with multiple contributors. These interests help to group your personal interests and also allow you to connect with other Twiners that share your interests as well.

A Twine can include: Bookmarks, Pictures, Videos, and soon more. Also other Twiners then can leave comments on your Twines and the links to the content giving praise or criticism to those links. The power of Twine is where you can create Twines and share insights, links, posts, and other content within the twine. Others who are interested in the same topic can add comments, additional links, posts, blogs, videos, the list is endless.

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Analytics for Social Media

I’ve been testing and using what I consider to be a great application for tracking my social media activity.

SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media. You wouldn’t run an important web-site without tracking your traffic patterns, nor should you invest in social media without understanding how it’s working for you.

Here is what I like about Swix:
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