The Basics

Twitter Search is a powerful tool. Simply use the jobpost, jobs, job, employment, jobtips or various career related words with or without the hashtag to find thousands of job offers and ideas.

What They Say

see what’s happening – right now

Pros

• extensive search capacity
• real time – immediate results
• quick and painless way to reach thousands

Cons

• lots of competition

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Twiter Search is a great tool to get your resume out and search for a job opportunity.

Visit Twitter Search to find your perfect job : http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23jobs

The Basics

TwitRes, let’s you publish your full resume on Twitter. You can track and view stats and feedback. Just log in, upload your resume and share your link. Brought to you by the people at resume park.

What They Say

Publish your resume in seconds on Twitter

Pros

• quick upload
• easy to share your full resume
• can also put your resume on resume park

Cons

• one of many resume tools

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

TwitRes is a great tool to get your resume out in the twittersphere.

Visit TwitRes to get your resume uploaded : http://www.twitres.com/

The Basics

Hootlet, a file sharing tool from the professional Twitter Client Hootsuite is a handy little tool that you add to your web browser to quickly share and send web content with your twitter users.

Just drag the owl to your toolbar or save it to your favorites for a quick and easy install.

What They Say

The Hootlet is your secret weapon for sharing internet content over Twitter. Want to share a link? No need to even click away from the page.

Pros

• quick and painless install
• easy to share information without opening your twitter client

Cons

• if you aren’t using hootsuite…no dice.

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Hootlet is my tool of choice for sharing content, the only one I use.

Visit Hootsuite to set up your account (don’t forget to add the hootlet widget) : http://hootsuite.com/

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.

Hootsuite

The Basics

Hootsuite, manage multiple social media including Twitter, Facebook, Ping and LinkedIn via mobile, desktop or web interfaces.

Monitor brands, schedule communication, manage multiple users, track stats, create lists, shorten  url’s, personalize views create  feeds, embed  tweets, create groups & lists, search and review profiles and more…

What They Say

Save your time and save your sanity. Continue managing all of your Twitter profiles through one client.

Pros

• versatile functionality
• could become the only tool you need – best all in one option

Cons

• follow management integration

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Hootsuite is my choice of the many Twitter clients available. While I’ve tested other clients this is the one I use!

Visit Hootsuite to set up your account:  http://hootsuite.com/

1. it makes it easier to write (and practice brevity)
2. therefore it is easier to read (short and sweet)
3. it’s interactive (two way street)
4. makes self promotion obvious (too much means you will lose an audience)
5. you can choose your community
6. you can choose what information you want to reveal and when
7. the news is in real time
8. the reaction and feedback is in real time
9. is easily accesible
10. incredibly cheap – the only cost is your time

What do you think makes Twitter a great promotion tool?