We frequently write about Twitter and its many benefits. We frequently visit our sister site at AuctioneerTweet to see what auctioneers are saying on Twitter. Today, however, we noticed something new. Actual items are now being sold on Twitter using the auction method of marketing.
Walt Kolenda, better known as AuctionWally, has conducted several Twitterauctions, as [...]
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It’s no secret that we’re enamored with Twitter. Our AuctioneerTweet site has over 45 auctioneers listed and it seems we’re continuing to add several each week as more and more auctioneers join Twitter.
Twitter is useful. It’s replaced instant messaging and reduced our use of email and Facebook. Even [...]
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As an effort to build and grow the community of auctioneers using Twitter, we launched a new website yesterday called AuctioneerTweet at – where else – www.auctioneertweet.com.
The concept is simple. Any auctioneer with a Twitter account can join and have his or her tweets included in the AuctioneerTweet timeline. A member list on [...]
Even though our enjoyment of Twitter has caused Facebook to go the way of MySpace for us at AuctioneerTech – something checked infrequently, usually at the behest of the automated emails sent any time something happens – we still recognize the importance of contact lists. The hundreds – some have thousands – of friends on [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One of the users we follow on Twitter recently posted this amazing article about company website design.
Some of the highlights:
Social networking is about people engaging with people. Individuals do not want to build relationships with brands and corporations. They want to talk to other people. Too many organizations throw millions into Facebook apps and viral [...]
Have you ever wanted a quick way to learn all you can about a website? A new web services called dataopedia.com makes it easy to view data like web stats, registrar information and links and stories from social networks. Note that the first search for a website seems to be a little sluggish, probably because [...]
Read the rest of this entry »You’re listening to the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast for the week of 15 September 2008.
AuctioneerTech – Technology, auctions and auctioneers – auction tech for the auction industry
Hello and welcome to the third episode of the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast, tech roundup one. We’re going to cover some of the previous two weeks’ stories from auctioneertech.com. We’ll talk [...]
Twitter is a popular social network that can be called ‘micro-blogging’.
Think of it as a way to post updates about what you’re doing. These updates can be sent by text message to update your status on twitter.com. Through the use of various plugins, you can incorporate these status updates into Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, Friendfeed and [...]
