She told me that she felt like she didn’t think she was really using it correctly. I told her that there really isn’t a “correct” way to use twitter, but I was curious as to what made her think that.

She had some really interesting insights about how she uses twitter and ways she would like to see it be improved. These were things that I had not really heard from a lot of users or really from the general tech community so I thought I would share them with you all.

The first thing that she felt was missing was a facebook type of “wall-to-wall” view, for your conversations back and forth with one person. I know that there are some apps that do this but Rosie mainly uses the main twitter web page when she is at a computer and twitterific on her iPhone. She would like these features to be built into the main twitter site.
However you can use search.twitter.com/advanced to search for conversations between specific people.

She also was really wishing that she could see her list of followers/following in alphabetical order. This was something I never felt the need for but I was really wondering if other people might find this helpful as well.

Rosie also became frustrated that she could not just DM anyone. She wants to be able to have a private conversation with anyone, no matter who is following who. She said that it was kind of strange that you might be able to have a one-way DM conversation if you were DM-ing one of your followers who then could not DM you back because you were not following them.

Her last insight was that she felt that the interface and general feel of twitter was a little childish. She couldn’t really explain why she felt that way, but I thought it was interesting none the less.

If you want to follow her she is @rosesness on twitter.

I would love to hear your thoughts on her thoughts.

Last week was Internet Week here in NYC, and in the few days since I have had a lot of time to reflect on this past year of me being a part of this amazing community. I have been spending the majority of my time lately looking for a full time job, and that has put a lot of my passion projects on hold.

I got into this “new media” space because I was passionate about online video and I stumbled upon Social Media by accident. I was perfectly happy going on facebook and reading apple rumor sites. I had almost no desire to be on twitter, to be a blogger or a podcast creator. Then I started watching video podcasts and I realized that I wanted to create content as well.

As much as it seams like I’m busy, I know that it is not an excuse for letting my passion for online video fall off. What’s it All About has hit a few bumps in the road, and I feel as if I am back to square one with the project. However, instead of being discouraged I have decided to modify what I was doing.

Very often people will ask me questions, either on twitter, or via email. For example, the other day someone asked my about #followfriday best practices. I get asked questions about social media all the time. So, I am just going to start answering them on video, here in my room. For right now I am thinking that I will just put these videos up here on Random Sarah because I am not really sure that they are part of the What’s it All About brand, and I’m not really sure what that brand is anymore.

You can ask me questions on twitter or shoot me and email

I would love your feedback since you have all been an amazing part of this journey.

p.s. I am still working on the user generated “I am a geek” video, but so far I only have 5 submissions so keep them coming!

I have met SOOO many great people and had the opportunity to be a part of such a great community. I am so thankful.

Over the last few days I have known that this anniversary was coming up and I have had some time to reflect on why I got into this space in the beginning. I was looking through my archives from last April which was my first month of writing randomsarah.com.

My writing has changed a lot, my style on video has changed a lot, and the content that I choose to put out has certainly changed. But I think it has changed for the better.

I am very happy with where this blog has come in a year. I have learned a lot about community, blogging, video blogging, podcasting, wordpress, SEO, and so much more.

I have been feeling that my current obsession with tumblr has taken away from my blogging here, but I am making efforts to change that. I signed up for ProBlogger‘s 31 days to a better blog challenge, which will start on April 6th and I will try my best to post EVERY DAY. In addition to that, I also am participating in Video Blogging Week, which will take place from April 5th-11th and will be one new video a day.

Last night I attended an event at New Work City for Runway Project called Resume 2.0. Whitney Hess was speaking about picking your one liner that describes what you do. It made me realize that I am doing so many things, how can I condense them into one line?

I talked to Whitney after the event and she helped me remember why I got into this space in the first place, I started this because I wanted to do online video. I was watching a ton of podcasts and I knew that video podcasting and online video was something I wanted to do.

So I am going to work more on focusing my efforts toward my end goal. I thank you all for contributing to this blog over the last year and supporting me. You have been the BEST Community I could ever ask for! Thank you all for continuing to inspire me to be better.