With so many Nokia X6 contracts on offer it can be hard to know which to go for. Moby1 can help by comparing all the mobile deals on offer, and they also have many phone reviews.
Is it a Sony Ericsson? An LG? No itâs the Nokia X6
November 13, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Abandoning its curvaceous ergonomics which used to claim nothing sharp-edged for the human hands, Finish mobile phone leader Nokia surprised many at the Nokia World conference in Stuttgart with a sharp cornered design that from a distance could be mistaken for one of those new Xperias or Chocolates. Itâs the new Nokia X6 heralding Nokiaâs new line of X series smartphones.
Nokia must have taken a cue from the upcoming stylish smartphones from Japan and Korea to excite the crowd with a full touchscreen handset that is sure to turn heads and give some real threat to its Asian competitors.
High End Smartphone Features and Price
Nokia officially launched the X series at its World Conference event with an expected market release before the year ends. The estimated SIM-free retail price is â¬460 before taxes and subsidies. Weâre pretty sure UK carriers are now scrambling to get their hands on it as it promises to bring a new dimension in multimedia experience for Nokia fans bored with the signature Nokia designs of late.
You get a more than generous 32 GB of internal memory to store all your media-rich files to last a week on the road. No need for microSD cards.
Evolution of Mobile Phones
November 13, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
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Social Media Workflow
November 12, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Whenever I talk with people about social media they say one thing: “It’s all very well, but where do I find the time?” and that is a reasonable question.
Many think that using say Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Ecademy whilst trying to do your job seems impossible. Especially if you can’t multi-task. Also, some research now shows that heavy media multi-taskers are paying a big price and there are even some comments that some sites like Twitter diminish your IQ. ‘Scary’ stuff and obviously reports like this let you off the hook – no one wants to make themselves stupid! So, it’s easy, I’ll just ignore social media.
Better not. There is always the latest fad on the web, but sites like Ecademy have been running since 1998 and Facebook has more than 250 million users so, it’s not just going to ‘go away’.
Indeed there are emerging case studies (admittedly from Twitter) that show that large companies like Pepsi and small businesses such as Naked Pizza are finding ways to make money. Then on Facebook the big brands such as Coca Cola are there.
And things like this have happened before. Do you remember a few years ago – well, ok just a bit more than a few years ago, but certainly within the last 15 – that not everyone had a mobile phone for business and certainly not everyone had email? And now? Mobile phones and email have become so essential in business that we forget what it was like before them.
Social media is also changing the way we communicate and if you want to get a flavour of how then look at the list of well over 750 top social media sites that we have found.
So where do you start? Well if you read our recent articles Social Media 1 and Social Media 2 and you know what it’s about, how to plan it and how to behave.
This article concentrates on workflow and workflow, as I am sure you know, is the management of tasks and steps in business processes. A workflow specifies what tasks need to be done, in what order (sometimes linearly, sometimes in parallel), and who or what programme has permission to perform each task.
In the case of social media there are plenty of tools that allow you to publish once and then decide where it all goes. Of course, you want to keep it simple to start and pick just a few sites on which to get started. Many people start off by going for the big guns such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Flickr.
There is nothing wrong with this, but if you looked at the list of 750 top social media sites we mentioned you’ll see that they may not be the best places to ‘hang out’. So choose wisely by thinking through the most important and valuable activities that you could be doing via social media and make those your priority.
Creating your Social Media workflow
Once you have decided on the sites that are most important to you, you need to make your presence regular and ongoing. It is a marathon and not a sprint, so repeated, regular involvement is needed. To make sure you do this you need to set up a schedule and then a workflow.
Firstly, decide when you will commit time to social media. Maybe it’s first thing, then around lunch and then just before leaving? Whatever suits you, but like any other activity you are learning you must devote time. You are just not going to be successful otherwise. It’s like going to school for the first time a little scary but you find you soon make friends and then you play together and joke together and…….
Being a regular in any community will also establish your personal (and / or business) online brand.
Now you have to find a way to make sure it all works together and that is workflow. This can be something that is quite personal, but also, of course it depends on your position in the hierarchy, the level of independence you may have, your job and whether you work as part of a team in all of this as well as a whole host of other factors.
Where do you start?
Unless you are going to build your own systems you have to look for standard tools that may help. They exist.
For example Salesforce CRM have just launched The Service Cloud which includes integrated support for Twitter amongst other enhancements and, of course, if this is the company line then……….. But let’s assume you are not looking for a team-based, corporate focused solution.
Most sites already allow some form of cross-import so that you can bring in some services. For example Ecademy allows you to import from pretty much all the sites of which you are a member. Facebook has a whole load of apps to allow you to interface with it, but then it’s not everyone’s cup of tea as their main dashboard.
If you just use Twitter, Facebook and MySpace then something like Tweetdeck works very well. It will allow you to deal with those sites from one place and also add other data such as their directory feeds on your favourite subjects.
Ping supports more than 40 sites and allows you to interface them all to Ping so that you can post from Ping and send the message and link etc to them all. With the custom URL facility you an also set it up to post to any page on which you can put a script.
However it may be that you want something a little more ‘complex’.
Then I suggest you use one site for each purpose. That is one site for status updates, e.g. Twitter, one for reading news streams e.g. Google Reader, one for photos, e.g. Flickr, etc. etc. This way you don’t have to upload things more than once. There is a real benefit to this as each site does what it does and none of them do it all. In any case it is quite likely you have multiple memberships already because sites specialise.
Once you have decided which site is doing what you will want to use an aggregator to tie all the different sites you’ve updated / uploaded together and you will be able to share your identity across many sites.
There are a number of aggregators out there and it requires some thought if you are using a number of sites to decide on the best and the flow between them so that the sites update in the way you want with minimal effort and that you don’t start creating a loop when sites keep cross posting the same things, that really does make some people angry!
One to look at is Friend Feed which automatically imports shared stuff from the sites you use across the web – they cover 58 at last count. But not only can you import you can export too not only via widgets but also via RSS straight to your own or any other site that accepts and RSS feed.
As you can see there are plenty of ways to make your life easier out there when it comes to getting your message across via Social Media. Not only that it really is still early days and the technology is evolving all the time. Remember those 1980’s mobile phones and compare them with an iPhone and you get where we are.
Richard Hill is a director of E-CRM Solutions and has spent many years in senior direct and interactive marketing roles.E-CRM helps you to grow by getting you more customers that stay with you longer.
Social Networking: Top Tools for the Ideal Twitter Experience
November 10, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Twitter: The Ultimate Experience of Social Media(Updated and revised based on my experience through longer use).Haven’t tried it yet?I find Twitter is the most fun social networking tool – by far. It feels like a game in some way. It offers real time connection and current synchronization with those you don’t get to be with all the time. It shares interesting new happenings that you wouldn’t have known about.Tweets are limited to 140 characters – so this requires people to keep their posts short and sweet. And, to top it off, it’s low maintenance! Profiles are light and don’t need much updating. The information below may be a little much if this is your first time on reading up, but check it out for a quick orientation to TwitterLand 
.A seasoned twitterer?This article is designed for us. All in all, twitter is great left as simple as it is. However, a few tools can enhance the experience. After reviewing tons of available apps, these I find are most useful and enjoyable. Try them out and have some fun! Would love to hear your favorites as well.Regular Use:One of the most fun ways to use twitter is on your mobile phone. Be ready for the times when you think of the greatest tweets with these phone apps:TwitterFon- for iPhone Users. An easy to use tool built into your phone. This one freezes less and has great capabilities. Auto posts to Twitpic (a great, easy way to share pics on Twitter). It’s all you need! You can follow, unfollow directly from the app. You can also see DM’s and @replies easily. Links posted in tweets also come up very fast (much faster than through Safari).TwitterBerry- for BlackBerry Users. Although I am not one, this is the BlackBerry App I hear the most about. Take it from Puff Daddy.Networking: (aka finding more friends you WANT to follow)Find someone you enjoy reading and follow their followers. Another great way is to search for keywords and see who is tweeting about your favorite topics. Connect with them that way.There are websites such as Mr. Tweet who suggest who to follow based on formulas of some type, but I find the natural search works best. They are fun to check out though.You can also learn about the stars of twitter on the Top 100 List. Interesting…My top picks – who to follow:The most entertaining twitters are:@the_real_shaq – Shaquille O’Neal (Yes, THE Shaq. Funny!)@RevRunWisdom – Rev Run (Deep thoughts, refreshing ponderisms)@TheEllenShow – Ellen DeGenerous (Great ideas and fun info!)@iamdiddy – P Diddy (On a lot with uplifting and fun reads)@sumsei – Jet Magat (Enlightening concepts and entertainment at its best!)@tferriss – Timothy Ferriss (Author of 4 hour work week. Always interesting info.)@MichaelScott – The Office Character (I don’t even watch this show, but his posts are hilarious)@guykawasaki – Guy Kawasaki (Fun, interesting information, but a LOT of posts)@MACvPC – Mac vs. PC (Funny)How Many:Following: I found that following under 1,000 people was a little too slow for me. I am not on all that often, but when I log on, I like to see the flow moving. Some find it hard to be following so many people, but with the use of TweetDeck, you can keep up on all the things you want. Search YouTube for some videos on that.Followers: Once I hit 1,000 followers, the number of my followers increases much more quickly each day. It also allows more opportunity for response from your posts based on the chances of them being online at the same time.Ratios and Balance Baby: Everyone has their own taste here. Some like to follow as many as possible to get more followers. Some hardly follow anyone back. Some people like to keep a balance between followers and who they’re following. Feel what is right for you. Chances are it may change from time to time. I like to follow everyone back that follows me to keep it a mutual relationship, unless I find their tweets extremely annoying for some reason – which is rare.TwitterKarma is a great bulk follow/unfollow tool in which you can instantly even things out and only follow those that are following you, if desired. Or you can follow back everyone that is following you with a couple of clicks.ProductivityRSS Feed automatically from your blog to Twitter. This application automatically posts your blog posts as a tweet on Twitter. Great for sharing what you’re writing without any maintenance. I am writing an article to share more about fun with feeds and will post when it’s ready.Search, Tracking, & AlertsSearch the history of tweets for any keyword. Here you can also be alerted when people tweet about you or when your defined keywords are tweeted by selecting the options on the right after a search. You can be auto-notified via feed, if desired.Sync with FacebookFacebook is my second favorite social media and it has only gotten more fun with the integration of twitter status updates. Warning: this is only a good idea for those who don’t tweet too much. Otherwise, you overload Facebook with your excessive tweets. I’m one of these who tweets more than I like to post on Facebook, so I no longer integrate the two through Facebook. If you would like to set this up anyway, do this:In Facebook, add the Twitter application to allow auto posts of your twitter updates into Facebook. It may take a few minutes to go through or process once you’re done, but eventually works with a seamless feed.TweetDeck just added a new feature where you can post to Facebook as well. Love it! This is my top option while working on the computer as it’s fully integrated and most fun.For those who post more often, you may want to try this set up: I have another service through Ping.Fm which I use when I want my posts to go to both to Facebook and Twitter, while using my phone. Also works well from the internet if you’re not using TweetDeck. To post to Ping.Fm on your iPhone, use Nambu. Try BlackPing for BlackBerry.The Lingo@ – immediately followed by a user name is a mention. It links their profile by making it clickable and notifies them of your response.# – immediately followed by a word is a hashtag. It creates a search of that word when clicked. A popular example is #FollowFriday in which people recommend their favorite people to follow.DM – A direct, private messageRT – Re-Tweet (re-post of someone’s tweet)Too MuchThere are apps out there that allow auto-follows, auto-responders, special programs to tweet from your computer, tool bars for your web browser, and so much more. I find all these are unnecessary. People get irritated with the canned responses. And everything else I’ve looked at makes Twitter too much of high maintenance (AKA less fun). However, a quick search on “Twitter Tools” will bring up the infinite possibilities if you are interested. And you never know what new tools may actually be fun to use.Would love to hear your experience and your favorite apps for Twitter. Please post!Happy Tweeting!By Danielle Marie Crume@sumsette
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Save money by using Twitter Applications
November 9, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
I like to surf different websites, you can say it’s my hobby and interest to visit various websites. From past few years social networking websites become very popular it’s the best time pass for anyone. If you are getting bored then you can surf any social networking site where you can visit different profiles and can contact anyone in world. These sites have become the best source to meet your old friends. I like twitter a lot I have found it very interesting and searched for twitter applications for quite a while.
With Twitter you have the option to link it to your mobile phone or to your instant messenger. This turns Twitter into a powerful mobile communication tool, since you can both send and receive updates on your phone, and stay in touch wherever you are.
The benefit of twitter is its microblogging facility through which you can send short messages of 140 characters to your friends at same time. Spending unnecessary money on cell phones, twitter is the alternative way to interact with your friends. Even you can send messages through your laptop to your friend’s cell phone.
For the businessman and home maker, Twitter is becoming an important part of business promotion, web marketing, personal branding, and the social networking scene. It can be a great tool to get your messages out to a targeted audience and find new business leads.
There are various twitter applications and every application has different purpose. Twitter applications are the add-ons which are used with browsers. You can add these applications in your browser. There are various facilities which are provided by these twitter applications. Facilities like you can search your friend easily through specific twitter application. You can interact with your friends on common topic through specific application. You can share your interest.
Twitter applications are the special tool which gives you different looks to the user’s account and to your explorer. Various twitter applications are so user friendly and enjoyable that while using it you enjoy it. There are various kinds of twitter applications like for games, astrology, different font styles and so on.
To experience all this we find that with Twitter applications, we will receive fast and better service, Sms faster than e-mails; this creates the magic and bound the people in chat bond. Useful to broadcast your company’s latest news and blog posts, interact with your customers, or to enable easy internal collaboration and group communication and many more application are coming soon.
Pallavi is an executive of Wensil i technologies.
Everything twitter – From Novice To Expert: The Unofficial Guide to Everything Twitter – THE BLUE BOOK
November 9, 2009 by IBI · 3 Comments
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Let a Blog Enhance Your Work or Business Productivity!
November 8, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Within the blogosphere, there is a new trend called microblogging. These microblogs will help you grow and maintain your business or enhance your productivity.
Microblogs are a new form of social media that allow you to keep in close contact with friends and coworkers in real-time. You can send entries or tweats if you use twitter from your mobile phone. There is a limit of 140 characters or less with microblog sites. The most obvious advantage of microblogging for business purposes is the ability to know about small problems in real time and provide solutions to your customers, or coworkers working in the field.
The official purpose of a microblog is to answer the question “What are you doing?” This is hard to get past at first. However, you don’t have to specifically answer that question. What if you’re working on a new project, or you have a new idea? Tell your clients what you’re working on via your microblog. Ideally, the perspective client should already be lined up to buy it. The upside of the “what are you doing” question relates to schedules. You can instantly know if a coworker or client is unavailable with a simple tweat or you can find out when the person will next be available. This saves valuable time and increases the productivity of your business.
Another great feature for businesses is “follow me”. This is similar to your ability to have friends, or regular readers of your blog. If you have a group of followers, you can inform them as soon as your new project is finished.
Does your business or service have a website? If so, consider using microblog services to promote it. In general, this won’t generate as much traffic to your site because of the character limit, but it can get you more traffic than you have now. Since many sites allow you to build a friends list, take advantage of it by promoting your microblog. When you set up your new microblog, let all the people on your contact list know about it. Make sure to put a link to your website on your profile. You can also “friend” every user you see on twitter, but this practice isn’t considered good netiquette. The user has no idea why you are friending them. Friend requests are important because the users cannot see your profile and link otherwise.
Another good way to promote your site is to synchronize updates with both your microblog and website. Every time you update your blog, your friends will know to come read your new update at your microblog. IF you own multiple websites, Twitter will allow you to create an account for each of them, but consider how much time it takes to maintain each account. It is easier to put all links, and updates together on one account.
Whether you are an employee or business owner, let a microblog grow your business today.
For more information on blogging, visit http://www.microbloggingsoftware.com and http://www.microbloggingsite.com.
How To Use TwitPic To Boost Your Business
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
I recently ran across a cool tool called TwitPic that lets you share photos on Twitter, the microblogging and social media service. You can post photos to the tool from the website TwitPic.com, or from many cell phones.
The tool has been around since February 2008, and is gaining in popularity. It was the top Twitter tool in January 2009 with 1,236,828 unique visitors to the website. These stats don’t include usage of TwitPic via cell phones or other Twitter clients that have built-in support, so in reality the number of users is even larger.
If you are using any of the following twitter clients, they have built-in support for TwitPic: Twitterrific, twirl, Mobile Twitter an app for the iPhone, ceTwit a Windows Mobile phone app, Twittelator, and Blogo a Max blog editor.
In looking through many photos that have been submitted, here are the most common types of photos people are sharing:
1. Babies and puppies – Both are irresistible and are fun to share. Who doesn’t like to get a cute baby or puppy picture.
2. Sunsets – I love these too, especially at the beach.
3. Food – Especially desserts that look like works of art. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it! Mine has to have chocolate or it’s not a real dessert.
4. Events – Newsworthy incidents happening in real-time.
5. Vacations – Very cool. An instant postcard, more personal, and much more convenient when using your mobile phone.
6. Driving – Hmmm, not sure I recommend doing this but lots of people are.
A great example of a real-time event occurred in January, after a US Airways plane crashed in the Hudson River. A now infamous photo of the crash was taken by a passenger on a nearby ferry and uploaded via mobile phone to TwitPic. The photo was broadcast before traditional media even arrived on the scene. In fact, the photo was re-tweeted so rapidly by a large number of people that it caused the TwitPic service to go down for a short time.
Here are a couple of ideas on how you can publish photos on Twitter to boost your business. If you are speaking at an event, make sure to get a photo of you in action and send it out. Or, if you’re attending an event with a well-known speaker, send out a photo of the speaker.
Share photos of company events. If you want to portray a business-like image, post photos of formal business events or trainings. If you have a network marketing business, you may want to show your team having fun together.
The first step is to decide what type of image you want to portray for your business. Then just post appropriate pictures.
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Karen Sielski is a passionate online wealth builder, using her 20+ years in the high-tech industry to help small businesses, entrepreneurs, and online network marketers successfully grow their businesses online.
Great Ways to Make Money With Twitter
November 5, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
One of the hottest new technologies available online today is Twitter. It is an amazing piece of software that has adults socializing like teenagers and creating quite a stir in offices, and around water coolers worldwide. Simply put, Twitter is a social networking tool that can be access from a PC, a PDA, or Internet-ready cellphone twenty four hours a day. Of course, network marketers have joined in the fun too, looking for ways to make money with twitter.
If you are like me, and you have found yourself on the mailing list of several marketing gurus, you would have received at least one e-mail encouraging you to become a twitter follower. If you want to have people know your every move, twitter is the place to go. This tiny blog that only allows 140 characters of posting, can send out quick messages to thousands of people. And as you know, where there are people with the technology to use Twitter, there is an opportunity to make money from it.
Twitter is really a blog. It allows you to keep in touch with your friends and customers online, and to keep up with them! When you send out a message to your followers, it is known as a “tweet”. You can “tweet” by logging into your account and sending a quick message to everyone who is following you. Your “tweets” will be sent out immediately. Let us say that you are a photographer and you just won a prize for your photos in National Geographic. You can alert your 10,000 followers immediately. Who knows. You could have flowers, or other gifts waiting for you at office or home. It is that fast! You can also set up twitter on your mobile phone.
But how do you make money with twitter? Savvy marketers have found several ways to cash in on this “tweeting” phenomenon. Here are several things you can do to monetize your twittering activities and start making some cash today.
1. Create your own tools to customize twitter. This is very cool. You can either do this yourself or hire a programmer to do it. Just like they do on mySpace and Facebook, people want to be different. Get them that unique add-on application and they will buy it from you. You in turn make money from twitter in an indirect way.
2. Find tools that are already in use, and further customize them! You can make quite a bit of cash by piggy-backing on technology that is already in place. Even if someone has a customized application for twitter, you can still do something they did not think of. You can create an application for a particular phone that is popular, or some other device. The thing is to be creative in what you are doing and you will make money from twitter.
3. You can also make money by becoming an affiliate for people who have already created tools and services for twitter. This is by far the most popular way to make money with twitter. Some of these tools are available at Clickbank. You can simply get a free account there, and start selling these tools as an affiliate. The commissions are usually good, and it takes less than 5 minutes to get set up for this. Just remember to buy the product for yourself first. See how it works. Use it for a while. You can enjoy the best of both worlds; a good product to enhance your twitter experience, and commissions for sharing that experience with others.
Charlie Berger is a leading Home Business Expert and Expert Author. Has been personally responsible for teaching many how to leave the 9 to 5 grind to enjoy the financial and time freedom you always hear about but few can show you how to achieve. See what Charlie is up to now at: http://charlesberger.getmoreinfo.net/
Tips To Establish Your Online Presence: Twitter
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
What is Twitter?
Twitter is an increasingly popular online communication tool. Free to use and jam packed with potential, Twitter allows you to post and receive messages from friends, family and colleagues in real-time.
Also known as a micro-blogging platform, Twitter entries, or ‘tweets’, are limited to 140 characters. This may make entries sound too brief, but you’ll soon find it makes it easier to post on the fly – great for communicating with peers and building up a visible web presence.
How and Why is Twitter Useful?
Twitter can be used for:
* Note-taking, jotting down ideas or bookmarking websites for personal use.
* Sharing websites, blog posts and other interesting information with your audience of followers.
* Instantaneous sharing of photographs and videos from your mobile phone with your followers.
* Receiving answers to questions posed to your followers – but remember, the conversation is two way. Always be polite and try and help others as much as they help you.
* Twitter is great for making worthwhile business connections.
* Organise meet ups, or ‘tweet-ups’ with like-minded individuals.
* Publish breaking updates of news, product releases and other information in real-time.
How to Join Twitter:
* Point your browser to twitter.com.
* Click “Get Started – Join!”
* Enter your details (Remember to always use your full name or alias for consistency in personal branding).
* Click “Create my Account”.
You’re now free to begin making connections, seeding content and engaging in conversation whenever and wherever you like. You’ll soon be getting the hang of it and will be on your way to improving your web presence and visibility.
Once you have created your Twitter account, don’t forget to add it to your LookupPage profile so your visitors know where else they can communicate with or follow you. You can also tweet your LookupPage profile. More people will find it and be able to get far more insight into what you are all about.
It’s all about making a connection with your potential audience, so don’t forget to maximise the benefits of your LookupPage profile by incorporating it into every online visibility exercise you undertake.
Next week we will be looking at how to use Facebook for corporate and personal branding, so keep an eye out.
By allowing you to create or improve your online presence, Lookup Page can help you to take control of your Google CV and online reputation. Market yourself with LookupPage’s advanced technology and products then allow you to protect your reputation through its focus on simplicity, trackability and visibility.
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