Archiving Twitter Nuggets
Twitter can provide an amazing quantity of great ideas and links on a daily basis, if you follow people and organizations who/which both:
- Share your interests.
- Use Twitter to share links.
With so many outstanding ideas and links being shared daily, it is important to consider how these resources can be efficiently saved for future use.
To date, my primary ways of saving Twitter resources shared by others for later reference have been:
- “Favoriting” the tweet by clicking the empty star by the tweet either on the website or in my favorite iPhone Twitter application, Twitterfon.
- Retweeting the tweet so I can both share it with others and find it later in my own Twitter stream/feed.
- Clicking the shared link and then using my social bookmarks (Diigo which cross-posts to Delicious) to save and tag the website for later use.
This evening I read that the Evernote web service has been updated to permit Twitter users to dynamically save Tweets to Evernote. After you follow EverNote’s MyEn account on Twitter and click the link EverNote sends as a direct twitter message, you can link up your EverNote and Twitter account by logging into the EverNote website. With that setup complete, simply include “@myen” in a Tweet to save it to EverNote. This is a new and innovative way to archive good ideas as well as links from Twitter friends.
How are you saving and sharing “good finds” from Twitter?
2 Comments
Julia
Wednesday, 6th May 2009 at 2:16 am
I’m cross posting in Delicious–my twitter is all about the edtech nuggets I find so that I can pass them on & network with other nugget droppers. Was way too many for me to blog without missing a lot of good tools/sites/apps–but the 140 char. on twitter was great. I really wish an app would be created to crawl through my tweets and import into delicious or other bookmarking software. I have put a request into a couple programmers–not one myself–but as yet haven’t seen any betas. If anyone reads this & will attempt to create–sign me up to beta test.
That said, you have to remember that you–hopefully–have new followers periodically. So from time to time, I post a reminder in Twitter that my url tweets are captured on my delicious page.
twitter: jhengstler
http://www.delicious.com/jhengstler
Anne Mirtschin
Wednesday, 6th May 2009 at 6:55 am
Speaking of twitter, thank you so much for attending our student summit today. The students were so excited when they saw someone come into their room as they thought that they may just be them. An authentic audience makes such a difference.
I like the idea of evernote picking up tweets etc, so I shall go and register for evernote now. Thanks again.
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