Twitter holiday helpers

These Twitter-based services will help you save money and stay organized through the retail (er, Christmas) season and beyond.

Find a Wii or WiiFit

Those of us shopping for a Wii or WiiFit (and who isn't?) need all the help we can get. These Twitter bots keep checking major retailers and tweet links when they detect available stocks.

• WiiTracker (twitter.com/WiiTracker) sends updates like this:
  

Costco.com has the Nintendo Wii Super Mario Galaxy Bundle in-stock for $350 http://tinyurl.com/ytfnmd 11:11 AM Dec 5th from twitterfeed


• NowInStock (twitter.com/NowInStock) and NISWiiFit (twitter.com/WiiFit) check stocks
  at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and other retailers. (www.nowinstock.net). You'll get a message like this one:
  

Nintendo Wii Fit in stock for $89.99. Go here http://tinyurl.com/6rab3l 2:00 AM Nov 28th from web

Get a PC or laptop deal

Dell Outlet announces deals via Twitter at twitter.com/delloutlet. For example,

20% off any Outlet Inspiron™ Mini. Enter code at checkout: SDN2Z85FXG5XD9 http://tinyurl.com/6gk7cq - expires 11:59PM CT 12/8. Online only 7:06 AM yesterday from web

New offers posted for Season of Savings this morning. 15-20% off select Dell Outlet products: http://tinyurl.com/5tamne 9:44 AM Dec 4th from web

Track gift shipments

TrackThis (twitter.com/trackthis) sends you package tracking updates by direct message. Send TrackThis a direct message with the FedEx, UPS, USPS, or DHL tracking code first and a nickname for the package, like this:

123456789123 Macbook Air

They'll send you a direct message each time your package changes location.

trackthis Macbook Air: In Transit To: Lousville, KY 09:25 am April 16, 2008

Have a holiday secret you can't wait to share?

Spill the beans to SecretTweet (secrettweet.com). The secret will be posted publicly but completely anonymously at both secrettweet.com and twitter.com/secrettweet.

Tweet Sheet

Finally, get Jason Theodor's super-portable, super-simple "Tweet Sheet" so you'll always have the command list with you.

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Chicago Agile Project Management meetup

If you are an Agile practitioner you might be interested in the Agile Project Management meetup. The meetup is new with 40+ members and meets monthly.

Dec 2nd's topic is user story life-cycle patterns from backlog to production, a topic of interest to business stakeholders and business analysts in addition to project managers and engineers.

Get information at Chicago Agile Project Management at Meetup.

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