Twitter Walls

If you know me you know I like to use Hootsuite to manage my social media feeds. Hootsuite has started offering a free service called #HootFeed. #HootFeed is a free tool built for sharing twitter feeds with an audience. You can projected it on the screen or wall behind presenters, in common areas at conference or special events or on your laptop at a trade show, all without having to refresh the screen.

And…it’s not just for the conference and event scene. You can display a feed in lobby of your office or in meetings at your office.

Twitter feeds can be an important tool if you want to see what people are saying about a specific hashtag while a speech is going on or while an event or meeting is happening.

How can you harness it? Let us know in the comments section.

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The Sky is Falling!

Yesterday, Amazon had a server problem for their cloud-based clients. You can read more about it here. What does that have to do with social media? Well, several social media sites like HootSuite, SCVNGR, Reddit, Quora and Foursquare use Amazon’s services to host their content. So, when Amazon’s cloud server went down, some social media sites did too. Some were down or sluggish for 15 hours or more.

While this was a black eye for cloud computing, it also made people scramble to find their backup plan. What kind of redunancy or back up plan do you have in place if your social media platform(s) go down? In social media, you can have more than one avenue to get your message out.

What backup plans do you have?