5 More Resources for Learning to Use Twitter for Business
2. Twitter Guide
Twitter recently published its own guide addressing these questions:
How do businesses use Twitter? How does it work? How do I get started?
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101
3. Learn Twitter Lingo! (Karen's favorite!)
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/learning
"Twitter is pretty simple: send and receive short messages. But what’s with all the symbols and strange terms. Learn the terms so you can use Twitter like a pro."
4. Ken Ramirez of Axys Technology Group posted a helpful video of his webinar here:
Advantages of using Facebook and Twitter for Business
http://www.axsystechgroup.com/resources/21-video-archive/60-advantages-of-using-facebook-and-twitter-for-business.html
5. New York Times explains Twitter Hashtags
Hashing Things Out
By Virginia Heffernan
How those curious words and mashed-together phrases known as hashtags are remaking conversations on Twitter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09FOB-Medium-t.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1
COMMENTS on my Presentation and Blog on Twitter
At the Culinary Center of Santa Cruz/Fresh Prep Kitchens, I gave a presentation to 40 women on "How To Use Twitter for Business."
On Aug 6, 2009, at 5:34 PM, William Tysseling wrote (via email)
"Karen… just want to thank you again. This was a real hit. So good there was conversation about letting you ‘finish’ in September. Well done and much appreciated."
— Bill Tysseling, Executive Director, Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce
On Aug 10, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Kirsti Scott wrote (via emai):
"Great job on the presentation! I tweeted your blog post last week after the presentation and I'm going to add it to my blog post. Thanks for putting together such a comprehensive list of ideas and resources!"
— Kirsti Scott, Founder, Creative Director, Scott Design, Inc.
Become a fan of Scott Design on Facebook!
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Camille Smith wrote:
"Thanks, Karen, for your presentation this morning. Great energy, super info."—
Camille Smith, President, Work In Progress Coaching
On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:06 AM (via blog comment) Fiona Leonard has left a new comment on your post "How to Use Twitter - Tips on Tweeting for Business"
"Thanks so much for the Hootsuite tip. My very old mac won't support tweetdeck and I have been suffering without some sort of platform to manage twitter. Hootsuite is a great solution."
LAST WORD:
1. For LINKED IN users: I suggest doing a search for, then joining this group:
Twitter Power for Business.
2. WARNING: Don't become a full time BOT poster!
If you automate your Twitter posts, make sure you don't ONLY use automated service!
An In-Depth Look at the 5% of Most Active Users reports that almost a quarter of Twitter’s updates are done by bots (automatic posting tools).
"Of the most active Twitter users updating more than 150 times/day, nearly all of them are bots operated by sources such as hotels offering deals, regional and national news services, regional weather services, the top news within Digg, games, anim services, tags within del.icio.us and financial aggregators. These very active bots account for one-quarter of all tweets."
Let your humanity shine through! That's what social networking is all about!
I have found Twitter useful in my own business and want to help demystify it for others.
Here I chat with Kirsti Scott, standing, right, of Scott Design, an award-winning company that creates online marketing communications for technology companies.
Bonnie Lipscomb welcomes the audience to the Women in Business event hosted at the Culinary Center of Santa Cruz downtown in August.
