Getting the Most Out of Twitter

Posted by Ian McKenzie

Written on March 10, 2009

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I’ve had a Twitter account for a couple of years. While I’m not realizing it’s full potential, I’m still getting a lot of benefit from Twittering. Over the past few weeks, I’ve helped some of my colleagues get up and running with the service. Here are a few of the links to which I refer new Twitter users:

The Newbies Guide to Twitter – from Cnet
From Micheal Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing:
Eight Ways Twitter is Useful Professionally – Web Worker Daily has eight tips on putting Twitter to work turning loose connections into professional relationships.
Five ways to use Twitter – from Stepcase Lifehack
Six Twitter power tips – 10 tips to enhance your Twitter use from Christopher Penn. (I know the post title says six, but he’s updated the post with further tips.)
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Twitter users – 6 Habits with lots of useful pointers.
Dave Winer looks at the future of Twitter
Putting Twitter Where My Mouth Is – Mike talks Twitter and social media with Wayne Hurlbert.
Newbie’s guide to Twitter – A good Twitter how-to article for those just getting started.
Update: As Michael Deutch notes in the comment below, I missed linking to a good Twitter resource list –or map, in this case. A couple of weeks ago, Michael posted a MindManager map of Twitter information and tools. I did download and review the map and intended to include it in this list. It’s available in two formats: one for MindManager and one for Adobe Reader.

Social Media and the Recession (kylelacy.com)
Should Nonprofits Use Social Media? (marketing-helper.com)
How to Attract and Influence People on Twitter – The Ultimate Twitter Resource (prevential.com)
The Only Social Media Primer You Will Ever Need (myventurepad.com)
Describe what Twitter means for you in 140 characters (casesblog.blogspot.com)

100 Twitter Tips and Tools from Online College

Send Your Twitter Tweets to Evernote

Google Notebook Goes Mobile

Communication

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Comments

Great resources. I’ve also pulled together an interactive mind map of Twitter resources which may be of interest. You can check it out here: http://is.gd/kyuZ

Comment by @MichaelDeutch on March 11, 2009 @ 1:07 pm

Thanks for the reminder Michael. I have been using your Twitter map and fully intended to include it in the list. I guess I should have used MM to outline this post. I’ve update the post.