Well, I have to admit now that perhaps I judged too quickly. Twitter…can you ever forgive me?

Social Media Revolution by Erick Qualman is a powerful video – I encourage you to watch it. Then sit back and think – where are you going right now? Your business? Your brand? Yourself?

Things like this give me ideas I can’t quite grasp. Something that sticks in the back of my mind until days like today when it all pulls together in a cohesive, solid knowledge of what needs to be done. I did my research, I learned what I needed to learn, and when the situation arrives to use that knowledge, I have it.

I’ll be honest – I don’t have a plan right now, and if you ask where I am/my brand is/my business is going, I would have a hard time putting it into words. But I know what things are going to be the important vehicles to get me there: this blog; Twitter; Facebook; my iPhone. Arming myself with knowledge, even general, unstructured knowledge of these items is going to be immensely helpful.

Doing without the old program for two and a half days (60 hours, to be exact) was doable. Information that was needed for the weekend was sent out early so everyone could continue and mission critical tasks would not be lost.

To be honest, I don’t know where the mistake actually lay – whether the new program hadn’t been tested properly for the immense load that would be placed on it Monday morning upon release, whether the program wasn’t supported well enough with the computers it needed to run, or if it was just a crap program put together by amateurs. Regardless, the worst problem didn’t happen on Monday, when things went down.

It was imperative that we had access to the information. Instead of shutting down the new program (after we crashed it – no, stomped it into the ground and raked it over with some stilleto heels) and bringing up the old one, they tortured us for almost two weeks. We lost business. We lost trust. Basically, it sucked.

Now I’m hearing really good things about Twitter (I love Twitter) and retweeting. They are planning to officially support retweeting, so no longer will you have to copy and paste and retype user names – it will all be done by the click of a mouse. But the best part is their implementation plan. They are giving app developers time to integrate the new API before they release, thus creating tons of happy users of 3rd party clients.

Sure, not everything will work immediately, but there will absolutely be at the very least a chance to make things work, and good app developers will let their clients know about the potential problems before there are actual problems.

This is a good plan. Good plans can save you, and your clients, and your employees, a lot of pain and suffering. And it can save you from lots of disgruntled clients and employees. Really, it doesn’t get much better than this.

I usually find Facebook to be too noisy. With the other services, it’s pretty easy for me to filter out stuff I don’t want to read. With Facebook, it’s a lot harder – I tend to have to dig around a lot to see interesting things.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

But the fact remains that there are family members and folks I used to know that don’t use Twitter (or I haven’t found them yet), and I know they’d like to be updated on what happens with DH and I, and so I am in search of a way to send my Twitter posts to Facebook.

This morning I (very briefly) tried the Twitter Application to send my Twitter posts directly to Facebook. I must say, I took an immediate dislike to it, although not through any fault of the application itself. It brought my posts over, after I gave it access, and even gave me one page where all my Twitter stuff was. Since I’m not looking to have all my Twitter stuff in one place on Facebook, but rather simply to have my updates posted on my wall for my friends to read, this was unnecessary for me.

There’s another Facebook application called the Selective Twitter Status Application, which also might be a good fit for me. Instead of blasting all my (sometimes pointless) tweets, it will just add the ones I append with the #fb hashtag. This isn’t a bad idea, but once again, at heart, I’m not a Facebook user, I’m a Twitter user. I don’t want to install another application to my Facebook page.

The optimal situation for me would be if Iconfactory offered Twitterific for the PC, and then if Twitterific would also feed updates to Facebook. Although I would love to be a Mac user, my pocketbook simply cannot afford it right now. I do, however, have an iTouch, and I really enjoy the Twitterific App for posting and reading updates.

From the wonderful Mashable article Twitter to Facebook: 5 Ways to Post to Both, only one other option appeals to me, and it’s the one I’m going to try. Tweetdeck is a Twitter Client, and I have several friends who use and enjoy this. There is even an iPhone/iTouch App, so I may try it there, depending on my success on the PC. I will be sure to report my satisfaction (or dissatisfaction, as the case may be) on Twitter, so be sure to follow me there!