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LocalChirps Professional: Data Mining Twitter

November 18th, 2009

News, we’ve lauched LocalChirps Professional: Data Mining Twitter by Geographical Regions

Manage your Reputation through Social Media Public Relations
Follow the Conversation about your Company
Know when your Brand and Products are talked about
Understand when Hot Issues Boil Over

http://Pro.LocalChirps.com

What is it?

LocalChirps Professional is a subscription web application that makes it easy to watch over any Twitter conversation about your company, your organization, political issues, and so on. The application is a customized closed system configured specifically for each client. Clients choose precisely which cites and geograhical locations they would like to monitor. The application can only be accessed by users managed by the client. Unlike other Twitter public website tools, LocalChirps Professional analyzes Tweets further back in time, discards spammers and nonsense chatter, and applies Fuzzy Logic algorithms to fully grasp a conversation as it flows on Twitter.

Track the current trending topics in your city
Monitor your own set of keywords and conversations
Get e-mail alerts whenever your brand, company, politics, or cause is mentioned
Share and colaborate with team members about your reputation
Compare issues among multiple metro areas

Pro.LocalChirps.com

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Invited on the Board of EOK

October 29th, 2009

Frank is honored to be invited on the Board of Directors for the Entrepreneurs of Knoxville. They are an awesome group helping small businesses succeed. The EOK is free and chuck full of resources for entrepreneurs. Did I mentions it’s free!?! http://www.eokhq.com

Tags: entrepreneurs, knoxville, networking, small business
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Twitter-Publisher plugin for Wordpress

October 8th, 2009

Twitter-Publisher is a Wordpress plugin to automagically publish a tweet whenever a new post created on our blog. Pretty cool. To hook up Twitter-Publisher on your Wordpress blog, follow these steps.

1. Login as site-admin to your blog
2. On the lefthand menu, choose “Plugins”
3. Then choose “Add New” that expands in the menu
4. In the search box, just enter Twitter-Publisher, it will be found as the first entry.
5. To the right, click on “Install”. Wordpress will do a few things in the background and the plugin will get loaded.
6. Return back to the list of Plugins, and click on Settings under the Twitter-Publisher plugin. Fill out the settings, they are pretty easy to understand. You will need a Twitter account and enter the account credentials here.

Note: for best results, you will want to setup a FREE bit.ly URL shortening account. Just go out to http://bit.ly and fill out a free account. You put the bit.ly credentials (username and API Key) in the Settings page of Twitter-Publisher.

That’s it.

Tags: plugin, tweets, Twitter-Publisher, wordpress
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News: Local Chirps goes Global!

September 1st, 2009

LocalChirps.com has gone global! You can now find local tweets for anywhere in the world. We’ve loaded over 9000+ world cities (population 50,000+). It’s fun to follow the conversation around the world: witness breaking news events, find American Expats, get in touch with the culture for your next big travel adventure.

Here are a few direct link examples:

- Fight for Freedom: http://localchirps.com/452435143,tehran,iran
- Gondola Breezes: http://localchirps.com/487567233,venice,italy
- Our troops: http://localchirps.com/448332917,kabul,afghanistan
- Busy Germans: http://localchirps.com/502039105,nuremberg,germany