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4 online tools to monitor and optimize your social networking activities.

Polly.IM helps respond to your customers on Twitter. Thank customers for checking-in Send coupons to new followers Respond to comments about your business

Great post about the power of Twitter. It is almost so commonplace as to be trite. But it isn't trite. It is a very real part of a good teacher's PLN. Better than a search engine, the people engine of a giving, helpful group of twitters. But remember that in order to Tweet and receive, you also have to share and receive. You get back far more than you give but you should give not just ask. In short, be there for your tweeps and your tweeps will be there for you.

"increase your social popularity by using the right hashtags. Sopularity helps you to add the most appropriate hashtags to your tweets. This leads to a significant increase of the searchability and popularity of your tweets."

Ego gives you one central-and lovely-location to check web statistics that matter to you. You can quickly view the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), how many people are following you on Twitter and more.

Wondering to tweet or not? retweet or not? Tadvise can help you! Tadvise is an advisor and assistant for Twitter. It analyses your followers and also the followers of your followers and reports you if the tweet that you are going to send is interesting (or relevant) for them or not. It also recommends you several followers, who can efficiently retweet your tweet... plus more features... Tadvise aims to boost collaboration by encouraging users to (re)tweet worthy items and thus helping you to get only appropriate stuff.

Twitter's default search only goes back a week-if that-and often chokes on multiple keyword searches. Fortunately, there ARE many great alternatives, and I've included a chart comparing the nine top tweet search engines below. Here are links to each of the nine,  in order of what I've found most useful to least useful for general tweet searches (however, some are powerful in other ways)):

Really great guide to get those who do not want to do it going!!

How do we work it out? Well we simply work out which day and time they tweet most on, gives you an accurate idea of when they'll be using Twitter. Perfect time to tweet them! Results are cached for 24 hours to reduce server load.

This Social Ribbon Generator allows you to create ribbon ads that invite your visitors to check out your social networking profiles.

Busy teachers may feel that taking the time to learn how to use Twitter isn't worth the return for the students benefit, so that's why this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing.

How to prepare a presentation when your target audience is most likely to use microblogging tools such Twitter.

A cool way to post to your multiple Twitter accounts without having to log on to each one!

Many forums, Blogs, and other web services allow you to have images as part of your signature. twitsig.com allows you to display your current twitter status as an image.

Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into the "club." So, here's a newbie's guide to this new platform. We don't cover every feature of Twitter, but this should help get you started.