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Tweet Your Way To Success Vermont’s 17th Annual Women's Economic Opportunity Conference Tweet Your Way To Success

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Tweet Your Way To SuccessVermont’s 17th Annual Women's Economic Opportunity Conference

Tweet Your Way To Success

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Tweet Your Way To Success

Today’s TopicsHow to get Started

Who to Follow

What to Say

What NOT to Say

Professional Development

Measurement

Tools of the Trade

Promotion

Tips, Resources, Lingo

Web Designer

Graphic Designer

Social Media Enthusiast

AIGA VT Board Member

#BTV Social Media Day Organizer

Recent Sky Diver

Lara Dickson, Burlington, VT

About the Presenter

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Tweet Your Way To Success

Set up an Account

How to get started?

Upload a profile pic, short bio, and personalize or brand it up.

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How to get started?

Its YOUR voice, your likenessUnless you are a giant corporation with many tweeters using one account.

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Who to follow?

Tweet Your Way To Success

Find people with similar #interestsHash tags get your message and topic to a qualified audience.

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Popular in Vermont

Check out Tagboard.com

#vermont

Who to follow?

Tweet Your Way To Success

#btv#vt

#vtgov#montp

#vtpoli#rutland

#madrivervalley#stowe

#techjam

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Explore and Create ListsFind influencers and follow the people they are following.

Who to follow?

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Participate in Twitter #ChatsDiscover a wealth of information and influential people to follow.

Who to follow?

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Listen first, then chime inIntroduce yourself. Being part of a conversation paves the way for starting your own.

What to say?

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Share links, images, videos

What to say?

Tweeting and retweeting interesting links entices people to read more, watch, and share.

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Live Tweet Events

What to say?

Conferences, interviews, news, what’s happening NOW.

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Its OK to be a Namedropper

TWEETIES

TWEETIES

Thanks @TravelChannel for sending Anthony @Bourdain our way for pork this morning. #bacon8:44am · 14 Oct 13 · HootSuite

What to say?

Shout outs and tagged posts show gratitude and greatly increase your reach.

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A Direct Message (DM)

What to say?

...is like a personal phone call.

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Talk like a Human

What NOT to say?

Sounding like a brochure is just plain boring and insincere. Be yourself.

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Steer clear of ME ME ME

OMG look at my cool life! LOL!!!!

What NOT to say?

And text-speak. And exclamation points.

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Keep it Interesting

Unless she’s also having lunch with that dreamboat Anthony Bourdain, I couldn’t care less about what’s on her sandwich.‘‘

What NOT to say?

Share something of value, something worth retweeting, tweet with purpose.

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Monitor your Reputation

They Yelp’dAND Tweeted that review?!

Stop the presses!‘‘

Always be listening, and always respond no matter what the chatter.

Professional Development

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Professional Development

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Manage your Personal BrandEverything you have ever said online is part of your personal brand. Everything.

When I wrote that nasty and grammatically

woeful comment last year, I never thought

I’d be applying to work there.

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Use a Dashboard

Tools of the Trade

Hootsuite or Tweetdeck for desktop, tablet, phone.

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Tools of the Trade

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Measure your SuccessHubspot’s RetweetLab.com and Twitter Grader, Klout, Google Analytics...

BUThow can we tellif it willWORK?

Because we keep getting free swag from Klout!

Measurement

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Measurement

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Put Twitter to work for youAdd your @name to email, business cards, Linked In, ads, and point to your site.

Promotion

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Followers are GoodLove, nurture, promote, and make them feel special...and they’ll return the favor.

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Twitter TipsTips

Go to Tweetups!

Always add value. What’s in a tweet for your followers?

Use @names and #hashtags (#but #not #too #many)

Only 1 of every 12 tweets is about you. Talk to/about others

Ask questions

Learn the lingo

Use URL shorteners like bit.ly

Imagine reciting your tweet at a cocktail party

Build a clear, concise, consistent brand voice

Leave room in your tweets for retweets

Create and subscribe to lists

Make your other content shareable, tweet from your articles

Use a widget on your website or blog

Participate in Twitter chats

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Twitter ResourcesResources

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/

Tweetdeckhttp://tweetdeck.com/

Hootsuitehttps://hootsuite.com/

Sprout Socialhttp://sproutsocial.com/

Social Media Examinerhttp://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/

Hubspot RetweetLabhttp://retweetlab.com/

Klouthttp://klout.com/

Bit.lyhttps://bitly.com/

Tweetchatshttp://blog.tweetchat.com/calendar/

Tagboardhttp://tagboard.com/

Go to Here!

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Twitter LingoLingo

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THANK [email protected]

all images in this presentation via Creative Commons and James Vaughn : http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/