The Basics

EverNote allows you to capture a web page, screen-shot, photo then attach a note and organize the information. With a quick search feature you can organize all your thoughts in one place and then send it to your phone or Twitter account when you need a reminder.

What They Say

Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web.

Pros

• capture, store, search and remind – very robust
• can use with web or phone
• great dreamcatcher

Cons

• not integrated directly with Twitter

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

EverNote is a very robust tool for capturing ideas and information online. Will use to capture my dreams and goals.

Visit EverNote to get organized: http://www.evernote.com/about/home.php

Have a chore to remember?

The Basics

Twitter Reminder brought to you by Twitter Gears provides a simple interface that lets you send up to 5 messages to your Twitter Account a reminder at a specific time.

What They Say

Have you got something to get done today, pick up some milk, pick up the wife from work or just remember to put the washing on?

Get twemember to message you to rememind you about the little things!

Pros

• very easy interface – type username, messages and send

Cons

• not integrated directly with Twitter

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Twitter Reminder is a great reminder tool, especially if you love simplicity. Will use to keep track of my tasks.

Visit Twitter Reminder to remind yourself: http://www.mytwittergears.com/twitter-reminder/

The Basics

MyChores helps you set up  tasks, work as a team to complete, track progress and stats. Then receive email, RSS or Twitter reminders to get jobs done.

What They Say

Any recurring tasks. Although most people use it for household chores, there are several other conceivable uses. For example, a homework planner; a list of friends you wish to keep in touch with; a record of the jobs you do at work on a daily or weekly basis, or customers you should contact regularly.

Pros

• simple registration
• can set up team tasks and send reminders
• easy updates to twitter account

Cons

• not integrated directly with Twitter

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

MyChores is a great reminder and task list tool, excellent for collaboration. Will use with a team.

Visit MyChores to get organized: http://www.mychores.co.uk/

The best way to manage your tasks. Never forget the milk (or anything else) again.

The Basics

Remember The Milk lets you manage tasks through a growing list of apps – email, twitter, google. New way to create and manage to do lists, post reminders, organize  tasks and share jobs or  events you need to attend.

What They Say

We created Remember The Milk so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand

Pros

• great for reminders
• simple way to prioritize and manage

Cons

• not integrated right into media

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Remember The Milk is the only reminder and to do list tool you need. Forget calendars and complicated tools.

Visit Remember The Milk to get organized: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

There are many Twitter clients available, some robust and some with a single or limited purpose.

Learning what to look for in a twitter client can help reduce the number of hours and tools required for your social media experience saving you valuable time, energy and money.

This is very subjective, everybody has different tastes, opinions and requirements.

1. Does it support your O/S?
2. Is it high capacity? If you can’t access it quickly, what is the point.
3. Desktop, web based or mobile
4. Is it clean and simple to setup and use? Are the streams easy to follow?
5. Can you manage multiple accounts? Is it easy to jump between them?
6. Can you manage and view your followers? Block, Report spam.
7. Is there a spell check feature?
8. Can you shorten your url’s?
9. Can you customize it to create groups, lists, favorites, search, keywords and other parameters?
10. Can you schedule & manage all your tweets? Sent, DM’s (in and out), @ replies, Scheduled, etc.
11. Are the conversations easy to respond and follow? Threaded?
12. Is there search, keyword, hashtag and other application integration like audio or picture sharing?

That’s a lowdown list of what to look for in a twitter client. If you ask these questions you will eliminate all the clients that don’t meet your needs and hone in on the one that is right for you.

Let me know what you look for and share with me anything I might have missed.

1. Use it to create a brand image for your name or company
2. Find people with similar interests
3. Find local users
4. Discover great causes in your location
5. Give yourself exposure to people that you might not otherwise have found
6. Look up the experts and get some information
7. Use a directory for research and analysis

There ya go. There are dozens of directories for twitter – twitter list directories, twitter hubs, twitter by location and so on down the line. There really are endless reasons to use a twitter directory. What’s your reason?

auto dm is a waste of time

I’m pretty sure it’s not just me. I think it’s time to banish auto dm  on twitter or at least have a rethink. The dm feature is a great tool to connect in a private conversation with any of your followers but it becomes hard to do when your box is full of spam type message that say “thanks for following, I’ve got a gift” or something along those lines. A private message is something that should benefit a user in a way that adds immediate connection and value.

I’ve seen very few well done auto dm messages and the time it takes to remove them all or go through them to discern which ones are real is a vast chore.

One solution might include auto @reply instead, which would make a user consider the value instead of splashing out a message across the board that everyone can see. If a message doesn’t contribute it wastes time (in that instance). The other problem is how do you as a user choose the ones to reply to.

Maybe the follow process should be refined or a little more difficult. I go to great lengths to choose my followers and actually manually review most of them. I want to find users that not only have common interest but ones that create quality tweets and have a small enough community that it will allow them to interact with me on a regular basis.

share your solutions and thoughts

Curious then, what do you guys think about auto dm? Do you have any solutions and ideas to make it a more efficient and pleasurable experience? Should it be banished. I’d love to hear some thoughts and solutions, so please comment and retweet this article to create a dialogue that will provide an effective long term resolve.

The Basics

Twitter Karma helps you sort and filter your followers. Login and WHACK your profile and retrieve your follower list. After you’ve filtered you can do a mass follow or unfollow on the users you have marked.

What They Say

Twitter desperately needs page navigation on followers / following list. Also sort functionality by type (reciprocated or not) is a must.

Pros

• does an effective job filtering and sorting
• quick unfollow or bulk unfollow

Cons

• would be nice to integrate into a client or twitter
• profile views limited
• perhaps batches of 25 to make review easier

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Twitter Karma is an effective follow management tool. Will add to list of followers.

Visit Twitter Karma to manage your profile:  http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

add the twittley plugin to your website

The Basics

the twittley button is a simple way to have your users retweet your posts for all their users to see without even leaving your site.  The post will also appear on the twittley site with updated stats.

What They Say

Harness the power of social networks and viral marketing with the Twittley button. Millions of users use Twitter as a social network so it only makes sense to get your link out to those users.

Pros

• simple set up with code, integrated with some bookmark plugins too
• variety of colors to choose from

Cons

• need more variety in style and size of button

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

twittley button is an essential tool to add to any website. Am already following this one.

Visit twittley to find great communities: http://twittley.com/

discover and share with Twitter friends

The Basics

twittley is a perfect way to find info, share it and promote your article or ones you find on the web. A social site that helps you find great content and offers several ways to promote it online. Weighted index by “karma” with search, rss, commenting, url shortening and community type features.

What They Say

The more you participate on Twittley & Twitter – the more Karma points you earn. The “weight” of your vote is calculated using this system.

Pros

• no account setup with great community tools
• excellent search and quantity of content

Cons

• are there any?

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

twittley is an essential search, discover and share community. The toolman will follow this community.

Visit twittley to find great communities: http://twittley.com/