One of my social media secret weapons that saves me time making and sharing articles on Twitter is called Buffer App. This app lets me schedule my tweets so that they come out at predetermined times throughout the day.
Scheduling your tweets helps to insure that your tweets are being seen by a variety of people, not only the ones that happen to be on Twitter at the same times you are.
When you have a tweet that you want people to take notice of, it is perfectly acceptable to send it out a couple of times a day. Twitter does not want you to send duplicate tweets, so change them up a bit before adding them to your buffer. Other apps including TweetDeck and HootSuite allow you to schedule the tweets, but you have to add them, one at a time. With Buffer App, [Read more...]
Was Twitter Hijacked? No, but people have been getting fooled by an email from a source pretending to be twitter. Have you gotten any tweets like this?
People often have a difficult time figuring out how to Twitter chat; but it is a great way to find people who are in their niche to interact with. Participating in Twitter chats can be a great way to find a group of people with whom you share an interest and, because everyone is communicating on the same topic, it is easier to break the ice and begin to add your own expertise to the conversation; and that begins to build your network.
Ever wonder how those little tweet links produce a pre-written tweet with the perfect message all ready to go? I am going to tell you how it is done and you can use this in your newsletter and your blog posts for people to share your material even if you are not regularly using Twitter yourself.
One thing that helps get you going developing a community in Social Media is to reply in some way to everyone who engages you publicly. “Promote the people who reach out to you” — on an ongoing basis. However, some people might wonder how to get people to engage with them in the first place.
One of the reasons I think people don’t catch on to Twitter is that they are not following the “right” people. When they signed up they may have followed a few celebrities and, unless they are the type of person fascinated by the National Enquirer, they will look at their Twitter Stream once or twice and then never again.
Andy Little, a graduate of UNC Charlotte, is a Consulting Technical Manager at Oracle. Andy is an experienced Enterprise Architect for a wide array of business applications in the insurance, financial and healthcare sectors. He’s the go to guy for just about everything but specializes in systems integration and conversion with an emphasis in content management, publishing, imaging and workflow software implementation and customization. Andy’s professional interests include client/server, web services, software-as-a-service and enterprise design/implementation.
