If you love music you have to have a play with Spotify
It allows you to search for and listen to any music of your choice. Nothing new? Its the social aspect that gives Spotify an edge. Start creating a playlist and send the link to your friends so they can share. Choose to turn it to ‘collaborative playlist’ and then they can then add their songs too.
Its so easy to use and intuitive. I recommend you give it a go.
Since attending the Future of Social Media Conference last month - I am a converted 'tweeter' or 'twitterer' - whichever you prefer. Since joining in, there are a few things that I have picked up:
Be selective with who you follow, and you will be updated with the exact news, opinions and cool stuff that you want to be - with no need to search for it. And its all in one place.
Don’t waffle - well you cant you only have 140 characters! Welcome to micro-blogging! Get to the point and thoughtfully share comments, opinions and links. Use ‘tinyurl’ your shorten your links.
Mobile apps - I found Twitteriffic to be a great free iPhone app that allows you to update on the move.
‘Retweet’ - seen a tweet that you love? Re-post it on your profile, but be sure to credit the original in your tweet.
Don’t use it for boring status updates - like what you are having for dinner etc - this is not Facebook.
Celebrities - Stephen Fry is still the most followed person on twitter - over 195,000 now. There is nothing groundbreaking in his tweets, they are simply entertaining, and give you and insight into his life - meanwhile raising his public profile. And why not.
Corporate Tweets - More and more companies are creating profiles, I think its a good thing, the audience after all select which brands they choose to follow, they are in control.
I read in Marketing magazine last week that Twitter is looking into how they can start charging for corporate accounts - no doubt the first of many tactics in the development of the revenue model.
I just set up the PlaygroupTweet where we’ll post our best blogs, and cool things the Playmates spot in the industry.
If you want to be one of the first followers - you can find us here:
http://twitter.com/PlaygroupTweet
Clare
The snow yesterday took us out of our usual routine. For those not able to get to work or without VPN access, there wasn't much else to do other than get stuck in - we had the permission to play.
The last few months have been particularly tough for all, so it was great to see plenty of smiles as the snow brought people together - or drove people apart depending on which side of the snow ball you were on!
The snow allowed some pretty impressive creativity too, with some people even breaking the mould to make snowwomen. Check out some of the pictures on Flickr
Amazing what a change in environment makes and the effect it has on all us. It would be good to be taken out of our usual environment more often.
As I look outside to see the snowmen melting away, it seems a bit sad.
Roll in the next snowboarding trip!
