What Ven Thinks!

Twhirl is one of the Twitter clients I tried when I finally became fed up with logging in and out of Twitter and Facebook to manage my multiple accounts.  Twhirl has some very nice features and for people who need a simple client to manage a few Twitter accounts, it is an excellent choice. Here are some of the best features
of Twhirl:

• Connects to multiple Twitter accounts.
• Notification display and sound for new messages.
• Support for bit.ly URL shortening.
• Twitter search with saved searches.
• Option to change the font size of the time line.
• Single column display.

In spite of its many wonderful features, however, it didn’t take long for me to realize that Twhirl was not the right client for me. In a side-by-side comparison with TweetDeck, Twhirl doesn’t measure up.

Facebook Support:

• Twhirl: No facebook support.
• TweetDeck: Complete integration

Do you have multiple Twitter accounts? How about a Facebook account or two? MySpace? LinkedIn? Foursquare?

If you’re like me, you probably have multiple accounts at several of these sites and keeping up with them can easily become overwhelming. In the past few weeks I’ve tested several different options for managing those accounts without logging in and out of each one on a daily basis. Here are just a few of the options I’ve tried:

• Digsby
• Twhirl
• HootSuite
• Seesmic Desktop
• and, of course, TweetDeck

I am primarily a Twitter user, but do have accounts on some of the other sites and after much tinkering and testing under my normal usage patterns, TweetDeck has emerged the winner. Although there are a few things about TweetDeck I would change if I could (annoying chirp notification anyone?), overall, the features have worked out

Reading blogs on the internet is a lot like panning for gold. You have to sift through a lot of grit and sand to find the good stuff. If you don’t give up, you’ll find a lot of gold flakes that make the search worthwhile. Every once in a while, you get lucky and find a gold nugget.

Blogging Without A Blog is one of those gold nuggets.

The blog is written by Barbara Swafford. She describes herself as a wife, mother and grandmother who created the blog as a place to record the lessons she’s learned from blogging. In the process, she has built so much more. She has created a community of wonderful people who come there, not only to learn from Barbara, but to share their own thoughts and lives

According to YouTube, this video is over a year old, but I saw it today for the first time and couldn’t help being touched by it. The smile on that baby’s face is priceless. I just had to share it.

via BuzzFeed

Like most people, I have dreams, goals and ambitions for my life and, like a lot of people, I also have excuses for not pursuing and achieving those dreams.

• I don’t have enough time.
• I don’t have enough money.
• I don’t know the right people.
• I don’t know how to do it.

Then I see something like this and realize I have no excuses at all. If I’m not achieving a dream, it’s because I’m not doing what it takes to get there. It’s up to me to take that first step, then the next one, then the one after that.

Take a few minutes and watch this video about D.J. Gregory and the next time you find yourself making excuses, think of him, pick yourself up, and keep going. I know I will.

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