I first understood the need to get twitter updated quickly when I noticed that others were beating me to the punch on stories that I was posting at work. Allowing others to tell your story negates your influence in the community. When it comes to your story, you want people coming to you, so you can influence and control the conversation. People and companies were taking an RSS feed from Bizwire and posting to twitter with “twitterfeed” faster than I could, manually.

With a twitterfeed account, you can add RSS feeds that update twitter and other destinations, automatically. So I set up an account and gave it a go. I noticed that the initial story I posted took a while to get to twitter, and never made it to facebook. Additionally, couldn’t find a way to get twitterfeed to differentiate my fan page from my profile on facebook. I don’t want design related material getting posted on my facebook profile, I want it to go to my fan page. In my attempt to check the documentation and look around for answers I found “dlvr.it” and procured an invite. Once my invite was accepted via email, I configured my account –  and this post will be the test round. Once I click publish on this post, it should update both twitter and facebook, immediately.

If you have a website with an RSS feed or a blog with a feed and you’d like to have your news, press releaces, blog posts, or any content connected to an RSS feed pushed to twitter and/or facebook, dlvr.it may be for you. I’m hoping it’ll work for me. If you’re one of my clients, followers, or fans that either follows me on twitter, is a fan on facebook, or subscribes to my blog via email, once I publish this, you’ll get this post and you’ll know how to update twitter and facebook automatically from your feed.

CoTweet

CoTweet provides very handy and easy to use tweet scheduler. You will be able to schedule tweets for any date and time without any limits.

After much testing, following the September launch of m.tampaelectric.com, Tampa Electric’s new mobile Web site, I felt it was high-time I posted the accomplishment here. The design, production and launch of this mobile site has been a year-long goal for me and I finally carved out the time in the schedule to meet this goal. Tampa Electric, a fairly conservative company, is usually a wait-and-see type culture as opposed to a “lets be the first and lead” when it comes to communication. However, this seemed to be an easy sell — from my boss, all the way through the executive board, everyone agreed that this was a great idea. Lucky for me as this was tied to my performance review goals and rating.

NickFranceDesign.com has a mobile web site as well. A different URL is not needed to access it as it utilizes a WordPress plugin called WordPress Mobile Edition. If you browse to this site on your mobile, you will be served the mobile edition by default. If you want to browse the full site, just scroll to the bottom of any page and click “Exit Mobile Edition.”