I owe this to @charbrown from Twitter.  Still trying to learn and make my use of TweetDeck more effective. Charles said to group your favorite Tweeters…. ones who were consistently interesting and you might want to retweet….in one group or column on TweetDeck.  That allows you to clear out some of the noise and focus, for the most part, on only quality Tweets.

Problem was I didn’t know exactly how to do that.  @charbrown to the rescue!  Here’s what he direct messaged me, with admirable brevity:

“At the top of the screen you should see several buttons.  the 6th one from the right has a couple of heads, click that ….

continued) … and it will open up a window you can name your new group, it will also allow you to add selected followers

charles brown / charbrown”

Thanks, Charles.  It’s even easier than that, since a list of people you are following pops up and all you have to do is check their name and save.  Now you’ve also just saved yourself a lot of time sorting through tweets and made your whole Twitter experience more effective.  Thanks again, Charles

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If you recall, I’ve already made a friendly note of the opinion of some that the iPhone could replace the Kindle as an eReader.  That story seems to be surging ahead.

Dan Frommer in Look Out, Amazon: iPhone Gets Real E-Books (AAPL) says: “While

Amazon’s sold-out Kindle is missing in action this Christmas, Apple’s iPhone is becoming a more attractive e-book reader: NYC-based ScrollMotion has just started selling the first of many e-books it’ll sell via the iPhone app store, including big-name books like Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass.”

While there’s plenty of e-books for the iPhone already, ScrollMotion has two advantages over its rivals: A gorgeous, feature-filled e-reader app called Iceberg and deals with several major publishers, including Random House, Simon and Schuster, Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and Hachette.”

Frommer thinks Kindle is still in the running because of the Iphone’s smaller screen size and limited battery life.  But there are always pocket sized, portable battery battery chargers and you’re already carrying the iPhone with you.  With a Kindle you’d have even more electronic gear to carry with you.  Now that’s the kind of problem I would like to have.  Wouldn’t you?

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I recently wrote a post about ebooks, mentioning it’s a good idea to start a collection of them.  I also mentioned the Kindle ebook reader, although I don’t have one yet and am waiting for the 2009 version.  Now I may not have to get one at all.

Tim Berry advises:

“The iPhone now has an application that they say (read the article at HuffingtonPost) is cooler than the Kindle for reading ebooks. And I bought the iPhone. But I also bought the Kindle. Gulp.

Oh dear … now my iPhone is cannibalizing my Kindle. It’s bad enough to be a gadget lover/early adapter adopter and all, but now the one is making the other obsolete. That’s bad for my rationalizations when I get the latest and greatest. Say it isn’t so!”

Thanks to Tim, now I will put the elegant eReader app on my iPhone and I may be able to forget dreaming of the Kindle.  Will test it out and let you know in a subsequent post.

If you’ve experience both the iPhone and the Kindle, please write in and share your views with the rest of us.

Thanks!

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Here are some free ebook resources to help jump start your business or your marketing of it.  I’m reviewing some different ways of storing your ebooks and best ways of reading them.  I started out by putting that info in this post but decided that some of you who collect ebooks just like to do it on your computers and are not into tech gadgets or eReaders.  So here it is, plain and simple, business books you may want to select from and add to your collection:

Getting Online Business Start Up

• Fail As Fast As You Can and Other Contrarian Business Secrets
• Business Planning Series (Worksheets, guides and checklists)
• 20 Small Business Ideas for Small Towns covers seven ways to generate your own ideas, so you can dream up the small biz idea that best fits you.

Getting Online – Starting Your Blog

How to Develop Money Making Niche Web Sites With Wordpress

Social Media For Marketing

Social Media For Marketing Social Media for Small Business by Duct Tape Marketing is also giving away their own ebook on using social media for marketing.

• The Impact of Social Media on Innovation – Josh Bernoff
• The Social Web Analytics eBook 2008
• The Essential Guide to Social Media

Internet Marketing and Traffic

• 30 Ways to Promote Your Website on a Shoestring Budget
• Adsense Guide
• Web Marketing Success

Marketing

• How to Market Your Small Business
• How to Make Big Profits from a Small Mailing List
• Small Business Marketing Bible

Working from Home

• Become a Global Homebusiness Pro [zip]
• Work from Home: A Complete Guide to Developing a Successful Internet Business from Home

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25 Handy iPhone Apps for Business People | Business Pundit.

For those who love their iphones:

More than 550 iPhone apps currently populate the iPhone store, and the number is constantly growing. The challenge lies not in acquiring apps, but in finding the ones relevant to your needs.

Here’s a quick-n-dirty list of some key iPhone apps for small business owners, corporate employees, and everyone in between (In no particular order. Go here for detailed reviews).

Includes such must haves as:

Feed Reader

This RSS feed reader comes equipped with autoscrolling to make getting your daily information fix easily and quickly.

Worldwatchr

Allows you to view webcams of your choice directly on your iPhone. Handy for traffic and weather info.

Salesforce Mobile for the iPhone

Instant customer information on Salesforce.com’s mobile platform. What more could you ask for?

QuickVoice Voice Recorder

A cost-effective, quality voice recorder that Gizmodo loves for its pause feature.

Oracle Business Indicators

Business performance info at the touch of an iPhone screen, including a range of analytics. No more need to pop open the laptop before that big meeting.

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