Manage TweetUp’s With Twtvite
TweetUps are becoming a common occurrence in towns and cities around the world. We’ve even had a few tweetups and twitter picnics here in Grand Junction, Colorado that have been highly successful.
For those of you that don’t know what a TweetUp is, it’s a physical meeting that started from a Twitter conversation and invite.
And all the TweetUps that I’ve been to have started with the incredibly easy to use Twitter event management tool at Twtvite.com. Twtvite is a contraction of Twitter and Invite -Twtvite.
It’s easy to use, allows people to RSVP as Yes, Maybe and No, and has an export option to get nametags printed for all your Twitter friends to wear.
So go to Twtvite.com and start your local TweetUp… it’s amazing what you can learn about your twitter friends when doing a face to face.
Microsoft Bing Webmaster Guidelines
Microsoft has published a document that guides webmasters on a path that will help them SEO there site, specifically for the Bing search engine.
It’s only 24 pages, and is large type with lots of images and graphics, so it’s really an easy read. It’s not what I’d consider a technical document, but does outline some of the basic practices that webmasters need to consider when designing sites and optimizing them for search engines.
One nice thing is that it goes a little bit about how the Bing search engine handles Adobe Flash sites, and its ability to locate “skip flash intro” links.
But a bad thing that I didn’t like, was that Microsoft is putting their own meta tags into the Bing search engine, so we’re getting away from website standards again. They have a “nopreview” tag, that for all intents and purposes is the same as the “noindex” tag.
Read the Microsoft Bing New Features for Webmasters document, and tell me your thoughts.