How I use Twitter without getting too under the hood

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Twitter is the future?
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Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what
you can do. John Wooden
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Breakfast vs. Fast Break

• Zach Braff (on DVR) talking Twitter w/ Ellen I
  dont care what you had for breakfast.
• Meanwhile, I get an email alerting me to a tweet
  from a potential client while Im watching
  Ellen -)

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How did _at_dwferrell choose me?

• It could have been this tweet which has
  served me well on multiple fronts.

• But that tweet was too old to be found in
  Twitters search. So it was more likely my bio

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Quotable Tweet Length 140 - 4 - UN

• When Twittering, think about leaving yourself
  some room to be easily quoted.

• For example, RT _at_OatesTom is 12 characters, so
  he should stop at 128 characters max.

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Room for comment is even better!

• By keeping the tweet even shorter _at_OatesTom gives
  _at_MurrayComm room to chime in too.

• While much of Twitter is about promotion and
  marketing, its wise to remember opportunities
  for conversation too.

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Dont worry about making mistakes

• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not
  doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes
  mistakes. John Wooden
• This is good, because Ive certainly made a few

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Crowdsourced curation of your Tweets
Above A Widgetbox widget thatpulls in an RSS
feed of tweets re-purposed through Yahoo! Pipes.
Left A search.twitter.com list of tweets
containing RT and _at_chadrem
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Not everything, just the echos

• Dont worry about catching everything thats
  going on in Twitter. Its an echo chamber. Just
  make sure you can catch the echoes. Big-deal
  items get circulated quickly and on a massive
  scale.

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Easy Twittering without an iPhone

• I added entries for Twitter (40404) and TwitPic
  as the first two entries in my address book.
• Then, when I want to Twitter via text, its just
  a little bit quicker.

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Use TweetLater in your newsletter

• TweetLater is a service that lets you (surprise!)
  schedule tweets for later. But it does so much
  more. Including sending you HTML updates of _at_
  replies. So, why not use them in your own web
  publishing?

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Instant notes at conferences

• Target smaller, breakout sessions
• Set up a post on your blog ahead of time.
• Pre-populate with details about session
• Link to its individual page (if it has one).
• Take comprehensive notes OFFLINE
• Each note should make you say "hmmm" or "aha" to
  yourself
• Don't try to get everything

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Instant notes at conferences (contd)

• Spell check.
• Seriously.
• Post to your blog.
• Grab the link / shrink the URL.
• Firefox add-on for http//is.gd or others
• Tweet with link to your post AND THE HASHTAG for
  the event.

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And I am out of time
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Thank you for yours

• http//capellman.com http//thisguychad.com
• http//capellman.com/clients
• http//capellman.com/chad - My blog
• http//twitter.com/chadrem - Follow me on Twitter
• http//profile.to/chadcapellman/ - Facebook
• http//linkedin.com/in/capellman - LinkedIn
• http//capellman.com/chad/2009/02/ten-twitter-tric
  ks-ive-learned.php - Original blog post
• http//capellman.com/chad/hire-me - Other neat
  posts
• chad_at_capellman.com - email