Twitter for Beginners | Making it Work

Twitter for Beginners | Making it Work

This is my fifth post about Twitter for beginners. You can read the rest here, here, here, and here. Mashable reports that 60% of Twitter users quit in the first month. My sense is that people will return to something if they see its value in their life or business....
Twitter for Beginners | Direct Messages

Twitter for Beginners | Direct Messages

The other day, a friend who has been using Twitter half-heartedly for a few months sent me a text message that said “I just got my first direct message on Twitter.” For him, a notable moment. It is fun when people reach out in a more direct way to make a...
Twitter for Beginners | What to Tweet

Twitter for Beginners | What to Tweet

You’ve taken care of the basics, right? You’ve: signed up for a Twitter account. dowloaded TweetDeck or another application. started to follow people in your field or area of interest. What next? In short, start tweeting. In my last post, I recommended...
Twitter for Beginners | Getting Started

Twitter for Beginners | Getting Started

Now that you have a Twitter account, what should you do next? Who to Follow Chances are, you have some friends or colleagues on Twitter already. Ask around the office or your neighborhood, or post on Facebook to let your friends know that you are tweeting. You can...
Twitter for Beginners | Why Twitter?

Twitter for Beginners | Why Twitter?

Not long ago I helped lead a webinar about Twitter for Mountain State University’s recruiters. As Twitter gains popularity — some estimates from last year say 10,000 new users per day — we as a university community are exploring how we can use this new tool to...