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So, I’ve found many different IP checkers from many different sites, but none of them really have a short url. IPChicken, IPPlease, all are like 9 characters, add the .com and it is at least 14 characters. Instead, I decided to launch an eight character ip finder. Check out IPPlz.com. It provides you with a quick way to view your IP in under 8 characters!

Also, check out the sponsors at http://thenextintech.com, and the blog I write for, http://techgeist.net. Enjoy.

Hey, I just wanted to tell all of you that I didn’t forget you guys. I am currently working night and day on a project at http://thenextintech.com. I am working on a WordPress theme for them, and finishing all the bugs and stuff. Once this blogging network gets going, I will be taking the position as the main IT guy for both our main blog and hosted blogging network. If you are interested in what we are, drop me an email at chacha@chacha102.com.

Once that blog goes live, I will be writing for it frequently and with the way we have it wired, the content I write will also be published here. So just wait a couple of days and I assure you the posting schedule will get back on track. Thanks for any of you that are still waiting for content, I really appreciate it!

Awhile back, a NextTech logo started appearing on my site. This is because I joined (and co-founded) the NextTech Group, a group of bloggers that collaborate together. Well, soon we will be taking that a step forward.

TheNextInTech.com, will turn into our main blog that will have 4 authors writing about all things technology. This includes my posts about how to become better using the internet, posts from Alex Wilhelm, Holden Page, and Michael Klurfleld. Currently the site is in a design stage, but should be reaady to launch soon. 

So what are we going to do? The NextTech Blog is going to be the main blog that all 4 of us focus on. It will contain news, opinion posts, and all sorts of content about technology. We hope to offer a great variety of opinions about technology from people that will actually be using this content in the next 60 years. Because we will be the ones actually using it, our opinion on technology should be some of the most prominent opinons shaping new servies and products. 

Aside from our central blog, NextTech will offer a free blog hosting service, NextTech Blogs. We will allow you to host your own blog on our service, without limitations like javascript. Because we are so small, we are easy to work with to get the service customized. You can simply email me, chacha@chacha102.com, and we can get new plugins or themes set up for anyone.

If you are interested in this project, and might want to help out, email me at chacha@chacha102.com.

The first step to managing and sorting through your Twitter list is finding people to follow. Depending on how much information you want to receive, you can place your limit on how many people you actually want to follow. Here are some services to help you get started.

iFollowBack.com

One of the first tools to find people to follow that I would recommend is iFollowBack. Everyone who signs up is required to follow 90% of everyone else on the site, so you are almost guaranteed that it will increase your audience. It is really simple to go through and follow a large amount of people, and I have made a good number of friends from the service. Simply sign up, and start following. Each page has 20 users on it, all with ‘follow’ buttons that allow you to follow them directly from the page. 

Twollow

The other way that I find people to follow is by having Twollow, a passive following engine that follows people based on keywords, run in the background. I just pick some keywords I am interested in, and Twollow will follow up to 15 people a day that talk about those keywords. I especially like Twollow because it fills up the real estate that I don’t. If I am only following 1,900, it will pop the number up to 2,000 and keep me at my max.

TwitterKarma

The last of the weird named tools that I use is called TwitterKarma. It basically allows you to do large tasks of following/unfollowing people. I simply enter in my user name, sort by who is following me, but I’m not following them, and do a bulk follow. This allows me to follow everyone who is following me, because they are the people most likely to respond to me and create a conversation.

Tomorrow, We will focus on how to manage the people you follow, and sort through them to get the active ones.

Many times, we have a lot of things to say about a certain subject. This often results in really long and annoying posts because everyone has more sites to visit, more articles to read, and more things to do! In order to help you all out in digesting this information, I’ve decide that in order to address large topics, I will go to the tactic used by my local pastor: Series.

Basically, over the few weeks, you will see a series of topics regarding the topic ‘Building Your Twitter List’. All of these will relate to the subject on how to build your Twitter list, and then will be compiled into a single page, and ‘something’ will be done with it. Most likely it will be posted as a single, giant, guide for everyone to see.

“BUT I DON’T WANT TO WAIT!!!”

I realize that some people are impatient and don’t want to wait for all of this knowledge. So each series will have its own Google Document with all the sections of the series in one place, for all to view. There is a drawback to this. The document will only show as much as I have written up to the point. It might show more than posted on the site, but I can only write so fast. In this case, the "Building Your Twitter List" can be located here.

So, lets begin the series with some simple ‘meta’ information about it. Tomorrow the first informational post will go live.

Introduction

     This series "How to build your Twitter List" will be a multiple part series on how to build your list of people you follow on Twitter. It will cover how to build and maintain the people you follow on Twitter. This is simply different ways you could maintain a large list of people, and general rules of following/unfollowing large amounts of people. You may not agree with all the techniques, and if you don’t, simply don’t use them. Some methods might work for certain people, and Twitter isn’t a one size fits all type of service.

    This entire series is closely tied with my giant analysis titled ‘Untitled’ that looks at how Social Media was created and how it affects modern day society.

    If you enjoy this series please check out me out at @chacha102

Golden Rule: Friends don’t count and this isn’t Personal

     Throughout this entire guide, remember that anyone you are particularly interested in, having relationships with, or is basically not a general stranger, doesn’t count. The people you actually have a relationship with shouldn’t be unfollowed, ever. I will be dealing with rules that entail up to 2,000 people, so don’t let the important ones gets lost into the crowd.

    Although it might be hypocritical to be going into a Social Network and treat accounts as simply on/off switches, the fact is that it is very hard to manage a large amount of connections that aren’t really personal. If you don’t like following people you don’t have a personal connection with, this guide isn’t for you. I am trying to get the most value out of Twitter I can by being able to get a large, diverse following, while still keeping my personal connections intact.

I hope you enjoy this series of posts, and I can’t wait to see you tomorrow!