A collection of Twitter resources, business use, and success.
April 25th, 2010
hootsuite—July 28, 2009 — A guided tour through some of the features available in HootSuite - The professional Twitter client.
What is HootSuite?
HootSuite is The professional Twitter client! If you manage multiple Twtitter accounts or share your Twittering duties with friends or co-workers, HootSuite’s for you.
If you’re interested in tracking how many people click the links you tweet out, HootSuite can help you. If you want to pre-schedule your messages or feed your blog to Twitter, we’ve got you covered.
TweetDeck—February 08, 2010 — An overview of what’s new in TweetDeck v0.33, presented by Richard Barley, TweetDeck Community Manager (@richardbarley).
TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR desktop Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn[2] and MySpace application. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the TwitterAPI to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is the most popular Twitter application with a 19% market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter.com website with 45.70% share for posting new status updates.[3] It is compatible with several operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.[4] An iPhone version was released on the 19th June 2009
Few businesses are utilizing the marketing value of Twitter. Most folks I speak with have no interest in knowing their friend just had a great cup of coffee at the local coffee house. And most business people have little time to monitor the enormous amount of tweets a person can receive in minutes.
Leveraging Twitter for Business has important if not down right economical benefits to a variety of business owners and professionals. Jeff Hilimire, who is Managing Director of Engauge Digital in Atlanta, GA shares some ideas how businesses can leverage Twitter. This is a great brief guide for how big brands and medium sized businesses can utilize this great communication tool.
Twitterama is a collection of video, power points, articles, and interviews of people, places, and events using Twitter for business.
Twitterama is brought to you by Mike Macey | Influencer | ThinkUp New Media http://thinkupnewmedia.com/about.
Twitter IS NOT for every business or profession. Before jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, you should research Twitterama and the many resources available online. Look for case studies for your industry or profession. Join Social Media groups like Meetup and Twitter Groups on Linkedin, Facebook, and Ning.
If you have a success story of how you used Twitter to increase business, provide better customer service, or promote one of your clients, please share your story here.