A quick post about a new tool I found for managing Multiple Accounts on Twitter.

SplitTweet could be the answer for many peoples headaches who are trying to manage more than one Twitter account!

Quick rundown on some Features

Tweet from one input screen to all or selected accounts.

Show which replies are to which accounts in your Twit Stream. By placing a color coded box next to each Tweet in the All Tweets stream.

Show replies to you from ALL accounts and also ‘Brand Monitoring’

AUTO REFRESH of page!

And…

Looks pretty cool!

Forget expensive trendwatchers.  Most of them are now discovering Facebook and god forbid if you mention Twitter.  As soon as someone calls himself a trendwatcher, he/she is a late adopter at best.  You’ll pay a lot of money for something most of your competitors already know.

Managers don’t have the time or the skills to do the necessary research.  That’s why they hire employees, but they all have a job to do. Being creative online takes time, and face it, with smaller budgets, fiercer competition,… time spent on something that doesn’t immediately adds value to the company seems like time wasted.

I think it was Tom Peters who said CEO’s should hire kids.

Especially since a lot of the social media opportunities require a certain level of being savvy enough to understand and more importantly, to find them all.  Your solution, hire a few kids to spend some time with the company.

·   Kids have all the time in the world ·   They are more keen to try new things ·   Ever since VCR’s came into the living room they are more techsmart ·   It’s cheap.  You could probably seal the deal with a month’s supply of pizza

The company checklist

· Don’t overthink the group of kids you want to use.  It really doesn’t matter where they’re from, what they believe in or how old they are.  As long as they know how to use a computer you’re good.

· Give them at least one day to get used to the environment and each other.  Try to put them into a room that sparks creativity.   · Toys, crayons,…  No Wii’s or Playstations though, you want them to focus.

· Give them their assignment after they are settled in, this will prevent someone playing leader.

· Don’t push them.  Kids don’t respond to deadlines, orders or anything we have to cope with.

And of course, afterwards, use their findings to see what they could mean for your company. Did some of you already try this? 

I’d like to know how it went, what you did and how it turned out.