Friday’s Villanova Executive MBA Alumni Conference – Follow along April 21, 2010

Hi Everyone,

I’m hoping to see many of you on Friday at SAP for this year’s Villanova executive MBA alumni conference, “Is Growth Dead?” It promises to be a jam packed day. Dare I admit a year after graduation I miss having my brain stretched that far, Friday should bring back that sensation.

Anyway, reality says many of you cannot pull yourselves away from work to get here. Many of you are just slammed, or simply not able to hop a plane to join us. And Class 10 is actually in class, I think.

We’d still like to share the experience of the day, and Twitter makes that possible. Don’t worry – if you aren’t on Twitter it doesn’t matter, you can still take part by watching what Twitter makes available.

You can pull up www.Twitterfall.com on your desktop (or on your iPhone for $.99). Tweeters at the conference will be using #VEMBA10 to mark the conference tweets. Twitterfall will allow you (even non-Twitterers) to watch the tweet stream and see what’s happening.

Here’s how it works - below there are 2 explanations of the same thing. The first is text w/ screen shots of what to do. Here is video of me explaining it, your choice whichever you digest better.

Go to www.Twitterfall.com (click on each image below to see them better.)

Once at the TwitterFall URL, you see this.

Here's how to set up the search so you can follow the conversation at the conference.

Once in Presentation mode you can follow along or interact, if you have a Twitter acct.

Hootsuite Rocks Functionality April 16, 2010

Managing Twitter gets much easier when you actually leave Twitter.com and use a different application to tweet. After experimenting for about 6 months, I’ve settled on Hootsuite. And I’ve really thought it was the best, at least for how my head works.
Today I notices a new button at the bottom of Hootsuite’s screen, call “People.” Let me tell you I’ve fallen in love all over again. It shows you followers and concisely tells you just about everything you want to know about how you interact with them (following or not), the size of their influence (via Klout score), where their located (important if you need geographic influence for a walk in business like a dry cleaner or pizza place). And it shows you all your lists. Then the little gear button on the right and you can change your interaction with that user. And then scroll through everyone.
Here’s a screen shot:

Why is it SO great? It’s simple, visually organized and still jammed with functionality. Be still my heart. (yeah my friends think I’m a geek, too.)

The People button (bottom left-ish). Click on the image to enlarge.