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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

[Devils Workshop] “Timely.is – Schedule your Tweets for Maximum Impact” and 1 more...

Timely.is – Schedule your Tweets for Maximum Impact

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 05:39 AM PST

Twitter has become a great tool to promote or spread a particular startup, a blog article or a web business in general. To make your tweets reach out to more people, a new web app called Timely.is helps you to schedule and post your tweets at an optimum time.

What is Timely.is?

Timely.is is a new web app developed by the startup Flowtown Inc., which can be used to schedule your tweets for later. It works on an algorithm, which finds out the time of maximum impact at which your tweet will be read by the most number of users.

As seen below, I simply entered my Twitter username, and Timely suggested 4 time frames, in which I could reach out to the most users.

How Does Timely.is work?

Timely.is analyses 199 of your previous tweets, and calculates optimum time frames using their algorithm.

To get started with Timely, you have to sign-up and authorize Timely with your Twitter account. You will then be able to schedule tweets as shown above (Click to enlarge).
By clicking on Add to Queue, your tweets get added to a list of tweets each of which will be posted at the time of most impact. You can check the statistics of your tweets as well.
If it is an urgent tweet, you can click on Post within 30 minutes, so that Timely will choose the best time in the next 30 minutes.

Since this is a fairly new web app, the accuracy of Timely’s algorithm is not certain. Do give me your feedback about this newly launched web-app through your comments

Link: Timely.is

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DoneCal – Simple and Clean Online Calendar tool

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 12:36 AM PST

When it comes to scheduling things or setting up reminders, I use Google Calendar. Google Calendar is an awesome service but like all things awesome, it is a little complicated. The huge number of options are a little over-whelming for people new to Google Calendar.

DoneCal has a simpler interface and is easier to manage and track events.

Features of DoneCal

To use DoneCal, I needed to register to the website. A good feature is that I could simply sign-in with my Google account.
The calendar can be used as a time-sheet to clock hours of work. We can then download the full report in an Excel or CSV file.
Just create a schedule of events in the calendar and we can share the calendar with a URL. People with the URL can only view the calendar but not edit it.
There is bookmarklet which makes it compatible with all browsers.

I found DoneCal very useful if you are about to create an itinerary and then send the link to people who might want it. This is perfect when you might be dealing with people who are not always savvy with Google Calendar or iCal. Try out DoneCal and do let me know your views through comments.

Link: DoneCal

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