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Using Twitter to Achieve Tech Comm Fame and Fortune
Peggy Harvey
STC Carolina Chapter
My History with Social Media Avoided it like the plague Started a personal blog in June, 2009 Took the class “Social Media in Public
Relations” in Fall, 2009 Now use Twitter and have a personal-
professional bloghttp://connectingtocontent.com/
Still won’t touch Facebook
Getting Started with Twitter Go to http://twitter.com and sign up Build your Twitter community
Follow people you know See who they’re following and follow them
Getting Involved with the Community Followed RJ Jacquez (@rjacquez) Participated in his eSeminar Twitter 101 for
Technical Communicators http://rjacquez.com/twitter_for_technical_communic/
Asked RJ a question about screenshots
Getting Involved (continued) Tweeted about a presentation I did for class
that talked about Adobe Community Help RJ commented on and retweeted my tweets Got to know RJ through Twitter
RJ asked me to do an interview on Adobe Community Help for his blog
For a while the interview was Google’s #2 search result on my namehttp://rjacquez.com/interview-with-peggy-harvey-the-future-of-documentation-adobe-community-help/
Twitter and the STC Summit Twitter reigned at the 2010 STC Summit in
Dallas Tweeting during sessions Twitter was used to connect with people on-site A large screen displayed all tweets on the #stc10
hastag Found out I won an iPad from WebWorks via
Twitter Tips
Do: Create a short username
Good: @arh (Alan Houser) Bad: @PMJaniszewski (Peter Janiszewski)
Include a profile picture and bio Listen before you jump in
Learn the terminology: @, DM, RT, URL shortening, etc. Jump in! Be courteous Be patient Use Twitter as part of a broader networking
strategy
Twitter Tips (continued)
Don’t Make Twitter a monologue Block your tweets Use profanity Put down your employer Tweet anything you wouldn’t want to see on
the front page of a newspaper Tweet useless information (unless that’s the
image you want to portray)
Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/