When news first broke of Jay Leno being pushed back into late night by NBC, the masses began siding with Conan O’Brien, also affectionately known as “Coco.” He became the most popular he had been for what seemed like his entire career, as he faced unemployment from NBC.
While Conan was host of the Tonight Show for a mere 7 months, his popularity has not died down since we all tuned in to see his last show and it was only a matter of time until Coco came to join his fans on the internet–starting his very own twitter account.
@ConanOBrien became active on Twitter a mere 19 hours ago and since then his identity has been verified by Twitter and he has accumulated over 270,000 followers and has been listed over 6,000 times. He has only tweeted once since his account has become active, but that isn’t stopping his fans from flocking to his Twitter account.
Will you follow Conan O’Brien on Twitter? Do you think it’s about time he hopped on the Twitter bandwagon?
CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, has resigned and as only appropriate for a CEO of an IT company, he went out in style, tweeting his resignation. But it wasn’t just any old tweet, it was a full on tweet-haiku. Yeah, pretty awesome.
Schwartz has officially become the first Fortune 200 boss to tweet his resignation, which isn’t too big a surprise, considering he was the first chief executive of a major company to come out with a public blog of his own. He had also pushed the Securities and Exchange Commission to treat blogs the same as press releases and filings in matters of disclosing critical business matters to investors.
The reason behind Schwartz’s resignation is said to be because Sun was recently acquired by Oracle, which acquired the company after I.B.M. had moved to buy them out, but when negotiations came to a standstill, Oracle moved quickly to grab it. In an interview conducted last week with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, he had stated that he fully expects Schwartz to resign, rather than play a role in the new Sun/Oracle company.
While it is not well-known what is next for Jonathan Schwartz, he had stated in an e-mail that “with a few million businesses and a few billion consumers on the Web, rumor has it there are some interesting opportunities to be had.” and he is completely right; you never know what’s going to happen when it comes to an IT professional joining the ranks of the recently unemployed, but I’m sure the right company will snatch him up, perhaps a company with the same innovative ideas and mindset for the internet and blogging world.
Twitter was recently branded as the most used word of 2009, with Barack Obama coming in second and H1N1 coming third.
But how do we know what words people are saying the most in a particular year? Well, Twitter was crowned the winner by Texas-based algorithms company, Global Language Monitor (GLM). Other words people like to say a lot are vampire, which we can blame on Stephanie Meyer and her Twilight series as well as True Blood, and of course, the word stimulus, which makes sense since we’re in the middle of a global recession and $800 billion sure is a lot of money to be pumped into the US economy–and still have more people living below the poverty line since the Great Depression.
This definitely shows how big Twitter is, not just as a social networking site, but as a daily part of our lives. All of the really big news that has broken over the past year or more, I have heard about first on Twitter and a lot of other people have remarked with the same sentiment. Twitter is easy for anyone to hop onto, it’s accessible and that is why it has seen so much success covering pretty much any and every topic imaginable.
So what do you think? Are you on Twitter? Do you Tweet your days and nights away or still not understand why everyone is on it? Also, don’t forget to follow WomanTribune on Twitter!
Please note that this week’s Monday Mingle was recorded on Tuesday night and posted Wednesday afternoon. Hopefully future Monday Mingles will actually pan out to be posted on Monday; we’ll see.
Now it’s your turn! Go get your camera and join in on the fun! Eighty MPH Mom has her linky up all week so you can record your video for Monday Mingle any day of the week. It’s a great way to meet other great bloggers out there and also get to know a little more about the people you’re reading.
Here are the questions for next week:
1. Talk about a breast cancer awareness program and post a link to that site. You can wear pink if you’d like, or do something else for Breast Cancer awareness (this whole step should be simple).
2. What is the closest you have come to meeting a celebrity? Or have you ever met a celebrity? (this can be ANY celebrity- famous author/singer/actor/even blogger LOL)
3. Would you rather lick a grocery cart handle or lick a bus stop bench?
4. Do you like to sing? Are you a good singer? What would Simon Cowell say about your singing? Feel free to sing a short song if you want.
5. Make up a limerick about Monday Mingle! (you know – limericks? “There once was a man from Nantucket….”)
Facebook is a daily staple in many people’s lives. It has a tremendous impact on people who want to get back in touch, stay in touch, contact companies with any questions or comments you may have about their line of products or their business ethics, and it also allows you to receive the latest news and special updates from your favorite websites.
And Woman Tribune has just joined that list of websites you can keep track of on Facebook! We have recently created a Facebook page where you can receive the latest posts you may have missed and share news, ideas and stories with other like-minded women who also read Woman Tribune. We also have plans to offer exclusive giveaways only available to our loyal Facebook fans, so there’s your incentive to become a fan right there!
So how do you become a fan? It’s easy. Just go to our Facebook page and click ‘Become A Fan’ and you’re all set and will begin seeing our updates on your Facebook home page immediately!
Now it’s your turn! Go get your camera and join in on the fun! Eighty MPH Mom has her linky up all week so you can record your video for Monday Mingle any day of the week. It’s a great way to meet other great bloggers out there and also get to know a little more about the people you’re reading.
Here are the questions for next week:
1. Have you ever had any surgeries or have you spent more than one night in a hospital? What for? (only if you want to tell, of course!)
2. Does your spouse do any of the cooking? Is he/she a good cook? Be honest…
3. Do you speak any foreign languages fluently? What (if any) foreign language did you take in school?
4. What are your best budgeting/saving money tips?
This is my first week participating in Monday Mingle, which was created by Eighty MPH Mom. So glad I could join other great bloggers out there who are mingling it up!
Now it’s your turn! Go get your camera and join in on the fun! Eighty MPH Mom has her linky up all week so you can record your video for Monday Mingle any day of the week. It’s a great way to meet other great bloggers out there and also get to know a little more about the people you’re reading.
Here are the questions for next week:
1. What would you think about having our spouses vlog with us one week? Would yours make a cameo appearance?
2. Do you have pets? Tell us about them!
3. What are your favorite sayings or movie quotes?
4. What is your favorite kind of music? Favorites bands/artists and songs? Best concert you ever attended?
5. What are your favorite drinks (alcohol or non)?
National Grandparent’s Day is September 13th, but not many people know that, which is why it is one of the most overlooked national days of celebration all year long. But this year is different; Grandparents.com and MomSelect have teamed up to celebrate Grandparent’s Day and they’re inviting moms, dads, grandmothers, grandfathers and grandchildren to take part in the celebration via Twitter.
I have always had a very unique respect for my grandmother. I come from a so-called “unconventional family,” being raised by my father, grandmother and aunt; my grandmother and aunt have always been and still remain to be the mother figures in my life. Some of my most-treasured memories that I have are with my grandmother; we have both always been night owls and we would go to Wal-Mart in the middle of the night when the store was empty and we would do whatever shopping that needed to be done. Afterward, we would go back home and she would make a pot of coffee and for the next hour or two we would sit at the kitchen table, drinking coffee and talking about whatever came into our heads. It is my grandmother and these long talks that we had once or twice a week that I have to thank for my deep understanding and passion for Democratic politics and the women’s liberation movement, which is why I started my personal and political/feminist blog, Menstrual Poetry. It is because of my grandmother because of my “unconventional family” that I know just how much a grandparent will do, both for their children and for their grandchildren and that is why I am thrilled that Grandparents.com and MomSelect have teamed up to celebrate and spread the word for others to celebrate National Grandparent’s Day.
The Grandparent’s Day Twitter party will take place Thursday, September 10th from 8-9PM EST. People will be swapping stories about their grandparents and being grandparents and they will also be giving away prizes that would make terrific Grandparent’s Day gifts!
You can find the discussion on Twitter by searching for hashtag #grandparents. If you want to participate in the Twitter party, RSVP here. Your registration will count as an additional entry to win a $25 e-gift card from Target.com. Additional giveaways will be held throughout the evening, including two $25 gift cards to 1-800-Flowers and two gift cards to Snapfish.
For updates as well as prize information, make sure you are following @ResourcefulMom. You can also follow us on Twitter @WomanTribune.
For even more chances to win great prizes, if you tweet the details of the Grandparent’s Day Twitter Party (including hashtag, date and time) between 8AM and 8PM on Thursday, you will eligible for a separate drawing for another $25 e-gift card from Target.com.
Facebook has an absolute plethora of applications; they easily have hundreds of applications, if not more, that appeal to pretty much everyone. I have noticed an application frenzy around Facebook as of late. While applications have always been very popular on Facebook, it seems as of the number of people visiting their Facebook applications has grown exponentially and seem to only be rising as time goes by. From personality and ‘What character from this television show/movie are you most like?’ quizzes to games you can play with and against your friends Facebook applications have been growing to meet the rising demand for them.
The reason why Facebook applications have done so well and are continuing to pick up the pace is because frankly, they are addicting and one game that has been the source of a great entertainment and procrastination for all is Farmville–an application that lets you be a farmer and grow crops and raise animals living on your own, virtual farm.
Farmville lets you grow numerous crops like strawberries, eggplant, soybeans, peppers, and numerous others and lets you raise animals like cows, pigs, horses, and ducks. It is incredibly cute and very, very addicting, especially when you get into the awards you can get from achieving small milestones like harvesting a certain number of trees or the amount of times you visit and help out on your friend’s farm and start purchasing decorations like whitewash fences (to keep your animals all fenced in while they are getting ready for their feathers, wool, milk, and eggs to be collected!) and haybales, carts, outhouses, and garden gnomes. And of course, a farm is not complete without a barn, tool shed, and of course a farm house for your farmer to live in.
Over 7 million people are playing Farmville daily, but if you’re one of the few people to actually have never heard of this game, it’s time to start your own farm and get in on Farmville. However, you may want to clear your schedule for the next week or so because that’s how long you’ll be staring at your farm, waiting for crops to go, and decorate your space.
And if that sounds a little like what your life has looked like over the past few weeks, be sure to follow Farmville on Twitter @zfarmville where they announce all of the new crops, decorations, buildings, and more that are put into the game and announce all the cool stuff going on within the Farmville community, like one person who made an entire farm that looks like Super Mario.
The awesome women from the social media for women website, kirtsy, are embarking on a journey to spread their knowledge of social media to the masses! kirtsy editors, founders, and friends will have fun, FREE, gatherings to show you and yours cool things that will help make your online life easier, smarter, and definitely more interesting!
Registration is now open through Eventbrite and you can see the dates and times below:
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