Tonight on the Profitable Social Media show we address how geotags on Twitter, GPS in your phone, and a myriad of software apps coming out this year will revolutionize the way local businesses interact with customers.

@24k will be our special guest. You may recognize Chris as a past guest. He’s been very active in the Las Vegas scene and one of the most connected people here.

We’ll be talking about many of the ways that marketing is changing through local access and

location aware apps.

Other guest will be stopping by to share their views on video sharing for small business, and local community networks.

Have You Been Getting Local?

Share your best tips, success stories, and plans for adding location aware or localized marketing to your business. Comments and questions below will be reviewed and addressed  during tonight’s show.

Listen to the show here

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The Twitter.com API (Application Programming Interface) as allow thousands of applications to interact with Twitter and helped to propel Twitter’s rapid growth.

Now Twitter Support for Open Source will allow programmers even more hooks into Twitter for faster development and new features.

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Here’s a guest post via video from @mpdotcom

A fine example of expanding existing relationships, Travis talks about his blog posts, explains why he thinks HootSuite is a smart move, reviews a book tweeps will love and encourages more interaction.

What to you think of his style?

Did you jump over to his blog and subscribe?

Want to see more like this for cool tweeps?

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The twoddler application is basically a Fisher Price Activity Center enhanced with pictures of family members and friends, and an Arduino board inside. All activities are captured by sensors connected to the Arduino board and are processed in two different ways: 

• activities are translated into Twitter messages and posted on the toddler’s personal Twitter account
• activities are send to another Activity Center and will generate effects (e.g. colored lights that blink) on your friends activity center.

Not ready for Christmas though.. read about the research here

Twoddler: Twittering Toddlers from Bart Swennen on Vimeo.

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You can’t hide when your friends have this app:

I’m looking for apps that will locate tweeps without the iPhone. Post a comment if you have a link.

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TweetMic is a simple and intuitive Twitter client app for the iPhone that allows you to make high-quality audio recordings or “Tweetcasts” and publish them directly to Twitter. There is no limit to how much you can record and you don’t need to sign up for any additional service to start using TweetMic.

Application Features

• Incredibly simple and intuitive interface
• Quickly record audio and publish to Twitter
• Review your recordings before publishing
• Easily overwrite old recordings by hitting “record” again
• Create unique and engaging Tweetcasts in no time
• Ultra high recording sound quality
• Unlimited recording time
• Uses your existing Twitter account, no additional signup
• Navigate and listen to your published audio tweets
• Your tweets stay live unless you delete them
• Easy management of your audio tweets at tweetmic.com

Say More in Less Time

With TweetMic you can publish tweets much faster, and you don’t have to break away from the moment to type anything. The energy and emotion of your voice conveys far more information to your followers than just words alone.

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If you have been worried about the time you spend on Twitter, you’ll love Flutter

For a bit more serious ideas on one to be more productive on Twitter, join us for Friday night Fun on the Twitter Radio Show

Friday Night, 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Pacific and 4PM Hawaii

Be sure you have a BlogTalkRadio account so you can connect with us in the chat room. Then log in a few minutes before the show and meet people who are building a network on Twitter just like you.

The TwitCast is also available on iTunes here

Do you have a question about Twitter. Send a Tweet to @WarrenWhitlock or add a comment here.

Technorati Tags: flutter, nano blogging, twitter video, twitter radio

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I’ve been using PeopleBrowser for a while and have been sharing it with a few friends.

So far, it’s not been as fast and responsive as some other options.. but I think it holds a lot of promise… especially in integrating Twitter with other social media

Meanwhile, some tweeps, like @philreinhardt think it IS the best interface for Twitter. Phil posted this review on his blog comparing, compaing Twitter on the web, TweetDeck and PeopleBrowsr

I’ll be posting more on the advanced features of PeopleBrowsr, and other mulit-platform clients

What’ YOUR opinion? What freatures to you need most to be able to keep in contact with all your connections across all the social media platforms.

Post a comment below. Be sure to inclued your Twitter @ handle so we can follow you.

phil reinhardt, tweetdeck, twitter, peoplebrowsr

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What if there were a way to plan your blogging and twitter post while planning your other marketing activities?

We’ve talked about TweetLater and how a good balance of live, real time tweets mixed with some scheduled tweets about your current promotion can save you time and get results.

Now you can co-ordinate these tweets with blog posts, status updates to other social media sites and your schedule for business, marketing and even your personal life.

The service is called PostLater. This is a highly configurable tool for every blogger. You will want to add this to your blogging arsenal

In my consulting practice, I deal with successful authors and business people that are reluctant to blog or post to social media sites because they are concerned about the time commitment involved.

I know this is an issue for most bloggers. Most of the successful bloggers that are blogging as a part time activity use some form of schedule to get it all done. Some resort to paying an assistant to handle all the posting to make sure that posts go live at the times readers expect them.

One client writes most of his business advice posts weeks in advance. He has a strong following and great content. When I asked him how he did it with his busy schedule of speaking and consulting, he admitted that he paid a full time assistant to handle it.

By regularly posting useful original content that is helpful to readers, authors build up a following online and receive requests for interviews, business propositions and an increase in leads that are looking for more of what they see you do online.

Imagine how much money he’s saving by switching over to PostLater. When I told him how it’s only $9.95, he asked “is that per post?”  The price is really so low that you’ll wonder if it’s a mistake. No, that the cost to you for as many accounts and posts as you want each month.

Have you been using TweetLater, PostLater or similar scheduling tools?

Please share your experiences, results and ideas below.

Technorati Tags: postlater, schedule tweets, twitter tools, social media marketing

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