3. King County News Blog
Changing our speed
March 13, 2009 ·
“The results were received in about an hour and are a validation of what
we thought: we need to be working at new speed to give you the
information you need and want.”
a couple of my favorite tweets
7. Twitter basics
Brief messages 140 characters or less
Twitter is not a chat
It’s about people (followers and following)
Don’t protect your tweets*
*you can change your mind later
8. There are many ways to tweet
web, desktop, or smart phone
9. Twitter tips
Who’s on Make a good first impression
Twitter?
Icons, backgrounds, biographies
Movers &
shakers in your
community
Have a plan even if it’s a sketchy one
Corporations Look for people to follow
Government Bloggers, WeFollow, your tweeps
officials &
agencies Don’t follow spammers
Early adopters Use a Twitter client on your desktop
Basically
Twhirl, Tweetdeck, Twuffer many others
everyone
10. Power tips
Twitter is the Get more from conferences
world’s largest
social mixer. Go backstage with hashtags #sxsw
Tweetups
Use Twitter as a monitoring tool
RSS feed
11. Yammer in less than a minute
Sno-Isle employees only
No message length limits
Groups
You can attach files
Good way to build connections, share information &
stay in touch