Category: twitter

Summize, a Twitter search engine

If you use Twitter the way I do, you probably struggle to stay up with the stream of messages that come your way. Summize may offer a solution. It’s a new search engine for Twitter posts, and it appears to be facile and robust.

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The service’s “About Us” section describes its mission as “to highlight the topics and attitudes expressed within conversational media.” The site pulls the posts from Twitter’s public timeline and gives a number of search options. For instance, you can:

You can also use a dropdown menu to do all of that. Plus, you can search for posts in 18 languages, and the site makes it easy to post your search results on Twitter.

Via @steverubel, about a week ago.

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Welcome, newb higher ed bloggers!

One outcome of the CASE Conference on Communications, Marketing and Technology was the introduction of at least two new higher ed blogs. (Another, more startling outcome: conference chair Tim O’Keeffe tweeted for the first time since Colgate’s big win over Bucknell. ;) )

lolcat_newb.jpgEven after the conference, you cannot escape the lolcats! LOL!

In Friday’s post, I introduced one of these newbie blogs, Paul Redfern’s Higher Ed Web Marketing. Yes, it’s yet another play off the name of the one, the only, the original higher ed marketing blog, which we discussed in item 3 of a recent Friday Five. (But Paul’s new to blogging, so we’ll cut him some slack. Plus, he’s in good company with DW [in URL if not name] and Dennis Miller.) Paul is off to a good start with some posts about the conference.

Another new blogger emerging from the conference is Eddie Merille of Florida International University. Eddie’s posted some thoughts about the conference keynote presentation by Fritz McDonald of Stamats, and a good response to the question, How can web 2.0 help me market my institution? FIU is already leveraging some web 2.0 tools, like YouTube, Flickr and Issuu, for marketing. Nice work.

So, I’m pleased to welcome these two newbs* to the blogosphere. Blog well, blog often.

*Yes, that’s newbs, not n00bs; and there is a difference.

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