May Meeting Recap

Submitted by Betsy Rhame-Minor on Fri, 2010-05-14 19:55
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Jenny Schmitt, President and Senior Spark of CloudSpark, an Atlanta-based strategic communications company, spoke at our May 6 meeting on the ins and outs of Twitter. Here are some of the highlights:
 
  • Social media is content conversations through online channels, and a micro blogging platform.
  • Currently, Twitter has 104 million users, and 31 million are in the United States. Three hundred thousand people use the social media tool each day.
  • Be three things to use Twitter most effectively: personal, promotional, conversational.
  • Thank people when they share good content. This can be done by retweeting their message.
  • Find like-minded people and join them regularly for a chat. Suggestions are to search #writechat and #journchat. If there’s not a chat for you, start one.
  • Enlist in the help of TweetDeck and HootSuite to manage your tweet stream. TweetDeck manages your big stream into small streams, and HootSuite allows you to schedule tweets.
  • Solid communication is present, persistent and consistent. Listen, respond and engage on Twitter.
  • Click your Twitter name to get your messages.
  • Use hashtags to classify your tweets, making them searchable by subject.
 
You can learn more about Schmitt and CloudSpark by visiting www.cloudspark.com and by following @cloudspark on Twitter.

Jenny Schmitt, center, speaks with Freelance Forum meeting attendees after the May 6 meeting.