Anith Gopal

LookingGlass is a new technology that Microsoft has developed to make Social Media data (twitter, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) useful to organisations and to make those conversations happening out on the internet actionable and measurable.  As the social media phenomena snowballs, it will be increasingly valuable to Government to listen to and to make proactive use of this information as a way to measure sentiment about policies and initiatives, forge insights about citizens and better target public services.  We all hear about how social networks are driving more traffic so it is useful to understand how this environment is changing and evolving to get better traction with public service digital marketing efforts.

I’ve been giving some thought to how I can better leverage various communications and social media to help promote the great work that folks in the Microsoft Developer Community (and beyond) are doing, and one of the channels I’ve been using is Twitter . For those of you who might not be aware, I’m on Twitter as devhammer , and I also have another account, CommMegaphone , which I use primarily for new event notifications when events are added to Community Megaphone .

  By Kristin Bockius , State & Local Government Social Media Marketing Manager Warning: don’t do social without social middleware Let’s face it. The adoption of social media applications is growing among state and local government organizations. At the same time, questions are still looming about how to best leverage the applications to reach citizens, promote programs or share information.

I’m headed to Tuesday night. I’m looking forward to helping with some Expression Web workshops and spending time at the Microsoft booth. I’m also hoping to meet a lot of people face to face

Although I’ve now officially left Microsoft I still have a few Microsoft shares, and like everyone else in the company I watch the price closely to figure out when it’s a good time to sell. However not being in the US adds an extra level of complexity to that question, as prices in USD but if I sell them they’ll be converted to GBP. This means that my “true” price has to take into account the current exchange rate, which has fluctuated a lot recently with the weakness of the pound.

Today I noticed a billboard for a local hospital advertising the use of Twitter to alert followers about current ER wait times. I thought this was a very clever and practical use of Twitter and it left me pondering other ways brick and mortar businesses could leverage Twitter.

Combining 2 of my interests of language and Twitter comes the news that the words Twitter, Twitterati and Twitterverse   will be added to the next edition of the Collins English Dictionary (30th edition) The entry under noun will read: "a website where people can post short messages about their current activities" and under verb it will read: "to write short messages on the Twitter website".

What is Gnomedex all about ?

어제 잠깐 트위터(@synabreu) 를 통해 전달해 드린 이 소식은 SPB 소프트웨어를 알고 계시는 Follower 들에게 폭발적인 관심을 보였습니다. 바로 위의 사진에서 저와 함께 찍은 분이 Spb Software 의 CEO 분인 Sebastian-Justus Schmidt 분이십니다.

At first, I thought this sounded like only half an idea. There are already some great Twitter clients in the Mac software space, most of which have integrated search functions built right in, so how does Incoming! carve out a niche by offering search alone?

If you didn’t manage to catch Newsnight last night then you can see a replay on of the highlights of the interview with @ev on the BBC site:     The full interview Newsnight program is available via YouTube via UK tech crunch London is the capital of Twitter, says founder @ev Rob Technorati Tags: Twitter

Nora Kelly and Erin Dolan from MSDN together with Geoffrey Emery (from TechZulu ) interviewed me while I was at TechEd this year in LA. Geoff had a lot of funny questions but were edited from the video. Gave my recommended apps that I use for working with Twitter on my Windows Phone .