How to Tweet – Smart!

1. How to Tweet – Smart!

2. Table of Contents: Your Profile Following – how and why Unfollow Block Find people you know on twitter 140 character limit Join a conversation What is up with the # hash tag Twitter Jargon: Tweet, @ShannonBoudjema, ReTweet, DM, Tweetup, Fail Whale, Twitter Search Hot Topics/Trending Topics Favorites – bookmarking Third Party Programs to make Twitter work for you: Twhirl or Tweetdeck Follow Smart people you don’t know Who’s influential on twitter Twitter Etiquette

3. Your Profile: It’s important. People use this to help them decide whether they should follow you or not. www.TwitBacks.com Upload a picture Tell a story about who you are. Don’t hard sell you, your products or anything else for that matter.

4. Following – how and why: How to: Top nav bar - <FIND PEOPLE> Enter names: Shannon Boudjema and ShannonBoudjema Preview Profile: Worth following or not? Select <FOLLOW> Why: Twitter’s value is directly proportional to the quality of people you follow. Professional and Personal insight, information and news, instantly. Find links to interesting articles from your network. Be invited to participate in events, opportunities, research and more

5. Unfollow or Block – how: How to: Select their name @ShannonBoudjema You are taken to their Profile page Select <FOLLOW> (or Block) button under their profile pic The option to <UNFOLLOW> (or block) is revealed Or Go to your Profile Select <FOLLOWING> Laundry list of people you follow revealed. Easily <UNFOLLOW> (or block) multiple people at a time

6. Find People You Know: Top nav bar – select <FIND PEOPLE> Enter their full name: Shannon Boudjema / ShannonBoudjema Enter a company name to find employees of Select the Profile of someone you know. See who they are following that you may know. Use search function in bottom nav to search by key word(s) Use #ShannonBoudjema to find tweets that contain the entire word ShannonBoudjema

7. 140 characters: Get 2 the point in ur tweets. www.tinyurl.com 2 shorten long URLs to 25 characters for including in tweets. Keep your Tweets to 120 characters so it’s easy for other’s to ReTweet <RT> you. If directing tweet to someone. Keep their twitter identity sacred. @ShannonBoudjema – will be public. Will also show up in their perosnal replies folder in case they weren’t looking the second you just tweeted.

8. What’s Up With The # Hash Tag? Twitter was born. The people using twitter liked it but wished it could be easier to find old or similar tweets on specific topics. The people invented # Hash Tagging. When tweeting about a #TopicOfInterest, you include the hash tag in your tweet so others can find common tweets. #FollowFridays or #FF is a tag used by people to promote great people on twitter to follow. Yes, this is almost always done on Fridays. There is a # Hash day for each day of the week! ;)

9. Twitter Jargon: Tweet: 140 character message. Also considered a micro blog. Most keep tweets to 120 characters so they can be RT’d. ReTweet: You loved someone’s tweet. You copy and paste but add RT and the @ symbol in front of the person’s name to make sure they get the credit for the tweet. Direct Message: On your profile, right hand side, you will see DM. This is where you can Direct Message someone in a private forum. *Be sure you are in DM when sending… looks like and feels like the twin brother – Message which is very public. Tweeple: People on Twitter. TweetUp: A meet up in real life of fellow Tweeple. Follower: Someone who sees your tweets in their tweet stream. Favorite: A gold star on a tweet that allows you to save that tweet in your profile. Twit Back: This is the background of your profile page. You can use the Twitter standard or find a freebie online or pay @stevesaylor $50 to make you one.

10. Third Party Apps To Personalize Twitter: Bottom nav bar of Twitter – select <APPS> Select one. Install. Play with it. Keep it. Or Start over. Google: Twitter Applications for a more robust set of apps including: Twitpsych – decipher the psyche of a fellow tweeple TwitterGrader – grade your or someone else’s twitter profile TwitPic – upload pics TweetDeck – streamlines all tweets in one easy to see place. For more, go here: techcrunch.com and search “top 21 twitter clients”

11. Who is Influential On Twitter? www.twitalyzer.com ranks this for you in real time. Here’s a look at the twitterati as of 15 Jun 09:

12. Twitter Ettiquete: The Three Commandments: • Thou shall not RT their own compliments! • Thou shall not SPAM • Thou shall not Auto Tweet – Ever! Unwritten Etiquette: Promote everyone else and you’ll find they all kill themselves to promote you! 45minutes a day: 20 reading tweets, articles, links, blogs, breaking news 10 minutes answering questions, RTing or in some way helping others. 10 minutes sharing your own material that you think your network would find useful. Most articles have a button that says: Tweet This. Click it. 5 minutes plugging yourself.

13. Tweeple @ShannonBoudjema Recommends: • @unmarketing • @TimOreilly • @keithburtis • @zappos • @mashable • @time • @tweetmeme • @GuyKawasaki • @Torontoist • @sheconomy • @danschawbel • @mattsingley • @richardatDell • @ccchampman • @scottmonty • @adrants • @Lennar • @MrTweet - ask him anything about twitter.

14. Mwah!You’re beautiful! For the next chapter… just holler! Let’s get connected. www.linkedin.com/shannonboudjema Tweet with me @ShannonBoudjema