How to create QR Click to Tweets to improve social media for your event. In early 2011 I cobbled together two products to create a unique QR-Click To Tweet code for each participating Innovator to have at their display. The scanned QR code launched unique pre-loaded Tweet with a shout out for that Innovator. After a couple of tests I enlisted the help of Nirmal Parikh of Digital Wavefront, Dag Holmboe of Klurig Analytics, Jim Henderson of VizConnect and Bobbie Carlton of Mass Innovation Nights. In one short conference call we figured a simple refinement of my cobbled project to generate QR codes to produce better analytics. Few of us knew that was possible. Props to Nirmal! http://bit.ly/wickedbostonaccent

1. QR codes for events How to create QR Click to Tweets to improve social media for your event. @timstansky October 2011

3. Follow these steps to generate a QR code that will launch a pre-loaded Tweet for people at your event to share with the world.

4. Enter the text of your Tweet at www.clicktotweet.com and click “Generate Link!”

5. The text of your Tweet disappears. Copy the generated URL in the shaded text box. copy this

6. Open bit.ly, paste the Click To Tweet URL, and click on “Shorten”. paste here

7. The generated bit.ly is saved. Click on Info Page + click here

8. Here’s your QR code and some analytics. Click on the QR code to open it in a new window where you can snip it and save it as an image..

9. Sign into Twitter Launch scanner Scan the code Give ‘em a shout! Inform guests at your event to sign into Twitter before they scan to Tweet. Scan and Tweet away!