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Hands On! - Week 5Twitter

Guide to Creating Your Social Media World

Gregory DrejzaInfo@GJDMedia.com(623) 556-3616

Training Class

• CONNECTCONNECT• MINGLEMINGLE• LEARNLEARN

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Agenda – Twitter

Using Twitter for Business Explain Twitter, Create your Twitter profile Connecting Your phone to Twitter Followers and Following Sending Messages Hashtags Twitter Lists Connect LinkedIn and Twitter Connect Facebook and Twitter Post at least once a week!

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Twitter

www.Twitter.com

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What is Twitter

Twitter - is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access.Estimated 18mm registered users.

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Joining Twitter

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Using Twitter

FIRST, setup your profile CONNECT:

Tweet daily to show you are active and worth “following” Connect your phone Invite “Facebook Friends”, “LinkedIn Connections” and others to

follow you MINGLE:

Follow others who interest you Join www.Twellow.com to allow others find you and go

LEARN: Read Tweets and follow links to learn new information Join, download and use TweetDeck (www.Tweetdeck.com) Use Twitter Search To Boost Your Follower Count, Meet New People

And Improve Your Socialization

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10 Do’s & Don’ts for Brands on Twitter

1. Don’t Be a Showoff2. Don’t Use Poor Grammar or Spelling 3. Don’t Get Too Personal 4. Don’t Auto-Tweet 5. Don’t Leave Air in the Conversation 6. Don’t Overtweet 7. Do Shout Out to Users Who Mention You 8. Do Monitor Keywords and Competitors9. Do Make an Informative Profile 10. Do Fish Where the Fish Are

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Fix Your Settings

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Add to Your Phone

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Adjust Your Profile

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Change Your Background

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Connections (apps you are using)

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What is Your Twitter Strategy?

Push or Share Information Create Awareness Converse with Others Type of Influence:

Local Regional National or International?

Who is in your Fish Pond?

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Followers & Following

A Follower is: someone receiving your posts (tweets) through Twitter

Following is: YOU are receiving someone’s posts (tweets) through Twitter

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Reviewing Followers

Follow

Addto

ListOther

Actions

Click toReview

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Conversing thru Twitter

Sending regular messages or direct messages, retweets

Direct message: no one else sees it but you and other person Format: D twittername message

Regular message: Sent to a person but, everyone can see it who receives that person’s tweets Format: @twittername message

Retweets: you forward someone’s post (tweet) to your followers Format: RT @twittername “their message”

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Hashtags - #

A hashtag is a way to unite global Tweets around some particular topic. Basically, these are tags that that help those who seek similar content discover your Tweets

Use hashtags to categorize your Tweets based on a particular topic or for a particular purpose – e.g. #followfriday is a fun tradition to recommend your friends (and the whole universe) new people to follow.

Hashtags are widely used to live-blog an event.

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Twitter Lists

Twitter Lists are a new way to organize the people you’re following on Twitter.

It’s a grouping tool, like “friends lists” on FB You create a list that groups together people

i.e. (the members of your family, for example), and then you can get a snapshot of the things they are saying by viewing that list’s page, which includes a complete tweet stream for everyone on the list.

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Create Twitter Account

Key Items NowKey Items Now Obtain Id & Password Add your website or blog or

Facebook page address

HomeworkHomework Complete Personal Summary Post a Tweet Daily Tell your “Sphere of Influence” via

email that you are on Twitter Give them URL address and your

Twitter ID Twitter Lists Using Twitter lists Followers and Following Conversing and Communicating

through Twitter Using hashtags (#) Sending Hashtag messages (send 2) Using multiple accounts on

Tweetdeck Navigating Tweetdeck Searching your relevant business

topics and local conversations

Check offwhen done!

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Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools and TimeSaversFree Twitter BackgroundsTweetdeck or HootsuiteWeFollowTwellowTwitalyzer