Love tennis? Like to feel like you’re a part of something bigger happening online? Then you’ll probably wish we had told you about this in time for you to participate!

But you can still watch someone swing a racket at tennis balls shot at him by a tweet-powered robot! That’s something, right?!

Yes, we explain what the hell this means below.

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Celebrities and other Twitterati can reign supreme every other day, but if you have a loved one who has served (or is serving now) in the military, Hashtags4Heroes wants to help your special someone take center stage this Memorial Day.

How?

All you have to do is tweet a photo of your military hero, past or present, along with the #HT4H hashtag and you’ll see his/her photo and story spotlighted on the Hashtags4Heroes wall.

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a garden that was visible (or not) based on the whim of folks tweeting about it? Possibly not, as Twitter trolls might kill it with ‘unkindness.’

But one optimistic group of folks, with an apparently less-jaded view of Twitter, have put their garden out there and have stunned IRL viewers with the results, bringing home the gold from the Chelsea Flower Show.

Its covering responded to live Twitter activity, changing how the garden appeared at any one time.

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How do you manage your online interactions right now? If you’re like me, the answer is probably “not very well.” I create tags in emails and reminders and lists and all that – or I favorite tweets and sometimes email tweets to myself so folks don’t get lost in the chaos that is Twitter.

But along the way, you’ll likely realize (to your horror) that you’ve let various opportunities slip by – and all because “social” isn’t easily organized. Till now.

We’re excited to tell you about a service, a social client relationship management (CRM) that will organize all of your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Google+ contacts in ways you’ve only imagined. This social CRM also integrates with your favorite apps like Hootsuite and Evernote (to name my two favs).

And better still? It just released new features – insights, signals and reminders – that will make this site the hub of your digital marketing efforts.

AND, they have a special offer for AllTwitter readers (only the fastest will snag it though, so read this quick!).

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How many times in the past six months have you read or heard someone reference the phrase “paid, owned, and earned”?

I’d venture to say that the answer is more than you can count on your hands (and maybe even your feet as well!). In this post, I’ll explore the evolution of social media marketing that eventually led us to the paid, owned, earned trifecta, and I’ll dive into a few brands that have found success employing it.

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Our Wednesday series Twitticisms is back, featuring the jocular jests and witty wisecracks of Twitter’s funniest.

Cue the laugh track:

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Internet Week NY is in full swing, and one of the most packed events so far was Joan Rivers’ keynote yesterday afternoon.

The mother of irreverent comedy was interviewed by Shira Lazar, the cofounder of What’s Trending, for a conversation about the Internet’s impact on comedy.

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Social media is time-consuming for even the most dexterous mouse-clicker.

Luckily, keyboard shortcuts abound for multiple social networking sites – and they’re all laid out for you in this handy infographic by Quintly.

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Social media is a vast, intricate, many-layered field with infinite tools, networks, and apps to help you leverage content and engage fans and followers. The days of the dynamic duo – Facebook and Twitter – are long gone.

These days, new platforms pop up daily, and best practices change for each by the minute.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a cleanly laid-out map that takes a bird’s-eye view of all the social platforms at your fingertips?

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In less than a decade, social media has empowered businesses of all shapes and sizes across almost every industry worldwide to attract and engage with fans and customers to raise awareness, drive website football and boost sales, but it’s a relationship that, by definition, has to work both ways.

Accordingly, platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have made it increasingly difficult for brands to maintain control of their online reputation, with these (and other) channels also empowering customers to proactively voice their opinion and share their experiences about these companies (and their products and services). Which, of course, is fantastic when everybody is happy, but let’s return to the real world for a moment: what do you do when things go wrong?

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