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The Power of Twitter Toby Ward, Prescient Digital Media

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About Prescient <ul><li>Toronto-based consulting firm and Vancouver </li></ul><ul><li>Prescient plans & builds highly effective websites and intranets that… </li></ul><ul><ul><li>are demonstrably better than the competition; </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>make CEOs and users happy; and </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>deliver measurable value by increasing sales and employee productivity. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Winner of more than a dozen awards incl. a prestigious Webby Award </li></ul><ul><li>Established 2001; profitable, no debt </li></ul>© 2009 Prescient Digital Media Reproduction without permission is strictly prohibited

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Agenda <ul><li>Twitter Defined (5 mins) </li></ul><ul><li>Social Media Overview (5 mins) </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter Overview (10 mins) </li></ul><ul><li>Your Profile (5 mins) </li></ul><ul><li>Good Tweets (10 mins) </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter Tools (5 mins) </li></ul><ul><li>Dos & Don’ts (5 mins) </li></ul><ul><li>Q & A (10 mins) </li></ul>

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Follow the conversation Hash tag #TobyWard to discuss this webinar My Tweets @tobyward

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Twitter defined

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Twitter is <ul><li>Short, headline-like messages to a group of people </li></ul><ul><li>Messaging tool between groups of people (“followers”) </li></ul><ul><li>A.K.A. “micro-blogging” or “presence” </li></ul>

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Social Media Overview

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Web 2.0 / Social Media <ul><li>Promote networks of relationships </li></ul><ul><li>Transforms users into publishers </li></ul><ul><li>Discuss, share & collaborate </li></ul><ul><li>From one to many -> many to many </li></ul>

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The power of ‘group’ <ul><li>Jellybeans in a jar: the average guess of all the guesses is almost always closer than the closest guess </li></ul>

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Web 2.0 (thanks to Shel Holtz)‏ <ul><li>Conversation-enabled publishing platforms </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Blogs, podcasts, Technorati </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Social networks </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Social bookmarking </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Delic.io.us, Digg, StumbleUpon </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Democratized content networks </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Wikipedia, Yahoo! Groups, MyStarbucksIdea </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Presence networks (micro-blogging)‏ </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Jaiku, Twitter, Pownce </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Content sharing sites </li></ul><ul><ul><li>YouTube, Flickr, ePinions.com </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Virtual networking platforms </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Second Life, There.com </li></ul></ul>

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4 of the 7 most visited sites <ul><li>Source: Alexa.com </li></ul><ul><li>Google </li></ul><ul><li>Facebook </li></ul><ul><li>Yahoo! </li></ul><ul><li>YouTube </li></ul><ul><li>Windows Live </li></ul><ul><li>Wikipedia </li></ul><ul><li>Blogger.com </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter </li></ul>

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Groundswell <ul><li>Nearly 70% of all Internet users visit social networks </li></ul><ul><li>(Cone, Business in Social Media Study, 1983) </li></ul>

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Expectation <ul><li>93% of social media users believe a company should have a social media presence </li></ul><ul><li>(Nielsen, 2009) </li></ul>

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Demand <ul><li>39% of employees under the age of 25 would consider leaving their job if their company banned tools such as Facebook </li></ul><ul><li>(Telindus, Social Media Study, 2008) </li></ul>

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Your competition <ul><li>“ For companies, resistance to social media is futile. </li></ul><ul><li>Your competitors are already there. </li></ul><ul><li>Catch up… or catch you later.” </li></ul><ul><li>(Business Week, February 19, 2009) </li></ul>

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Good blogging (www.IntranetBlog.com)

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Twitter Overview

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Twitter glossary <ul><li>@ </li></ul><ul><li>RT </li></ul><ul><li># </li></ul><ul><li>DM </li></ul><ul><li>Name or ID: my profile name & URL (@tobyward) </li></ul><ul><li>ReTweet: republishing another Tweet (RT @tobyward) </li></ul><ul><li>Hash-tag: label or tag to denote subject (#intranet ) </li></ul><ul><li>Direct message: email message to someone </li></ul>

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Your Profile

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Bad Profile

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Bad Profile

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Good Tweets

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Good business Tweet <ul><li>“ News headline” </li></ul><ul><li>Short </li></ul><ul><li>Impactful </li></ul><ul><li>Link </li></ul><ul><li>Additionally: </li></ul><ul><li>1-3 hash tags </li></ul>

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Hash-tag <ul><li>A label or ‘tag’ for denoting a subject </li></ul><ul><ul><li>#web </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>#intranet </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>#socialmedia </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>#sm38 </li></ul></ul>

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Good Tweets <ul><li>Why your Business Needs an Intranet http://bit.ly/7Mnlb5 (@adenin) #intranet </li></ul>

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Good Tweets <ul><li>Also keep a watch on Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, with relationships locked in address books & inboxes. http://bit.ly/2TVqI3 #sm38 </li></ul>

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Bad Tweets

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Twitter Tools

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Tweetdeck

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Tweetdeck

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Bit.ly

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Shorten URLs

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Shorten URLs

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Dos & Don’ts

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Follow the leaders <ul><li>88% of Nonprofits Experimenting with Social Media </li></ul><ul><li>51% of Organizations are Active Users of Social Media </li></ul><ul><li>(Weber Shandwick, Novemer, 2009) </li></ul>

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DO <ul><li>Good Tweets: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Short, to the point, aptly descriptive headline with a link to more (article, post, etc.) </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ No one cares if you’re having coffee, or your plane just landed, or you got the new XBox.” </li></ul>

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DO <ul><li>Strong Profile: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>State who you are, your role in business / life, and your expertise / interests. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ Your profile isn’t blank, or simply limited to a MySpace link or a strange iPhone number.” </li></ul>

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DO <ul><li>Open Conversation: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Lots of short posts & links, rather than a string of ‘replies’ or insider conversations with one or a couple of individuals. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ No one wants to read a string of ‘replies’ or @name talk or insider conversations with one or a couple of individuals.” </li></ul>

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DO <ul><li>Original Thought: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>By all means highlight and repeat article & blog posts & links, from content relating to your profile. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ I’m not interested in strings of ReTweets from others, I prefer the original.” </li></ul>

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DO <ul><li>Leadership: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Demonstrate thought leadership & keen eyes for good content and articles within an acceptable timeframe, but not every 5 or 10 minutes. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ Please see a professional about your emotional insecurities if you feel the need to Tweet strings of 5 or 6 consecutive Tweets in a 10 or 20 minute span – otherwise known as spam.” </li></ul>

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DON’T <ul><li>Become a sheep: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Ensure you have a “following” to “follower” ration of less than 1:1; better yet, shoot for 2:1 </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ Do you comb Twitter and follow as many people as you can just so they can follow you? See the above about emotional insecurities. Honestly, if you’re a sheep, then your shallowness lowers your esteem in the eyes of others, and frankly, you look worse then if you never had a Twitter account.” </li></ul>

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DON’T <ul><li>Spam: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>3-6 Tweets per day spaced over the day is a good rule of thumb </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ There’s no surer way to turn-off a follower than issuing lots of consecutive Tweets in short succession, many times per day. In fact, if you’re Tweeting more than 12 times per day then it better be meaningful or as entertaining as a Three’s Company rerun.” </li></ul>

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DON’T <ul><li>Gossip: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Occasional gossip and jokes are encouraged, just keep it to a minimum and make sure it’s well-founded. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ There’s enough fluff and crap on ET, TMZ and those other cesspools of anti-journalism; I avoid those, and avoid Tweeple who repeat it.” </li></ul>

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DON’T <ul><li>Forget your profile: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Strong, descriptive profile that uses keywords that people might use to search you out (SEO) </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ Why would I follow you if I don’t know who you are, your expertise / interests lie, or worse, you try and disguise who you are?” </li></ul>

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DON’T <ul><li>Bad Tweets: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Twitter isn’t a replacement for conversation, so don’t try and use it as a debating tool or the school sandbox. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Examples: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>“ What’s up guys?” </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>“ I just got a mocha and a biscotti. Yum!” </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>“ I really think, and I’ve given this much sober thought, that Britney Spears is a true, American hero … (blah, blah).” </li></ul></ul>

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Q & A

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