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By: Contextures Blog » Excel Twitters 20080830

Contextures Blog » Excel Twitters 20080830 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:06:00 +0000

[...] were more Excel Twitters than usual this week, and some of that was thanks to Dick Kusleika, who decided to record all his activities in Twitter. I didn’t include those — you can [...]

By: Tulipdog

Tulipdog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:15:00 +0000

I use twitter and have found a number of uses for it - like getting recommendations for a restaurant.
However, I thought you might be interested in http://www.ididwork.com/ for keeping track of your tasks. I just started using it last week and I really love it - you can tag and set time for what you accomplished. I found I spend way more time that I thought fielding questions and troubleshooting at work. Ididwork lets you export to a spreadsheet and get a graphical representation of your tags. It's pretty new and I already sent them a number of suggestions - but I think it has lot of potential.

Oh and P.S. I really love your Excel tips

By: thomas plagwitz

thomas plagwitz — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:27:00 +0000

Cheers, looking into both http://search.twitter.com/ and Twitter clients now.

Hm, I should tweet this: ad hoc workgroups, as Dick's help tweets demonstrate, seem another intriguing application of twitter. May require better search and semantics, though.

By: Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:06:00 +0000

Thomas, you can do your research through Twitter Search: http://search.twitter.com/

By: tim

tim — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:20:00 +0000

i didnt get it to start with either
but then i found twhirl - a messenger type application that displays all your tweets and the people you are following in an application on your desktop
makes it make sense - now its like you are in a huge groupo conversation and you can chime in when you want to
hope that helps
go to http://www.twhirl.org
cheers

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:12:00 +0000

Mike – Dick wants to know if you work on commission.

By: Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:41:00 +0000

140 characters or less? It's like high tech haiku.
Here's a sub-140 character joke for your Twitter.

A man & a boy walking in the woods at night. Boy says I'm scared. Man says, You're scared? I'm the one who has to walk out of here alone.

By: doco

doco — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:38:00 +0000

Hmmm… How to go to mars … 140 words or less.

By: Harald Staff

Harald Staff — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:29:00 +0000

Lots of people over here telling us that Twitter is the next big thing. Did get a decent username for once
http://twitter.com/excelguy
and found that excruciatingly boring in public is still excruciatingly boring. Oh well. Hand over the userform.

By: thomas plagwitz

thomas plagwitz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:42:00 +0000

I’ve read with great interest Debra’s recent blogs on tracking “Excel” on Twitter. Taking the personal diary idea one step further, Twitter could be a market research tool.

However, when trying to explore his further, I ran into this: “Tracking is an SMS or IM only feature that allows you to receive all twitters that match a word you’re tracking”, “IM is temporarily unavailable while we work on making it better.” – let me know if I am missing something…