Chris Spagnuolo is a social media maven, blogger, cyclist, food and wine lover, and an agile software development evangelist from Ft. Collins, CO. 2009 promises to be a stellar year for professional cycling around the world. The return of Lance Armstrong has more fans than ever turning out at early...

Stuart Foster is a marketing consultant in the Boston area. He specializes in brand management, social media, and blog outreach. He authors a blog at Thelostjacket.com. Tweetups. You can’t escape them. They are pretty much ubiquitous these days. The @ nametags. The random awkward conversations...

Lon S. Cohen is a writer and social media strategist. He is @obilon on Twitter. Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free. It’s equivalent to getting higher education. I’m talking about Masters level stuff. And it’s a...

Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck. Thankfully the...

Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck. Thankfully the...

We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around. Some of them don’t quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won’t find any of those brands here. We’ve handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the mic...

Like it or not, Twitter has become a huge phenomenon. Some even say this micro-blogging platform has threatened the life of blogs, especially those personal ones. Of course I won’t say it goes as far as that, but it’s a good idea to keep both of them close together, so that either side d...

If your Twitter experience has been a little hum-drum recently, check out these tools to help you make the most out of the biggest microblog network out there! Twitter Classification Script for Greasemonkey One of the most effective ways of quickly gauging the quality of someone you discover on Twit...

I’ve had a Twitter account since the early days, but I haven’t really used it all that much. I’ve tweeted occasionally and I’ve even set up several of my feeds to automatically tweet for me, but I never really got twittering. That is, until I got myself an iPod Touch. Now I c...