Twitter: I am at work_matters

I have taken my sweet time trying learning about twitter but I finally am beginning to make the plunge.  Tim Keely (who does a great job of helping me with all things IT, I would be lost without him) and I are going to be messing with this blog a bit to weave Twitter into this blog over the next couple months, and is always the case, I expect it will take me awhile to understand how to use this in ways that are fun and useful.   

My user name is work_matters. 

If you have any advice about how to use this thing, especially to link people to my blog, please let me know. Thanks!  I will tweet this post, which will be, I think, my fourth one.

Comments

[Jamie Flinchbaugh]

Welcome. I'll follow you, my twitter name is @flinchbaugh.

First, I recommend not looking at it primarily as a place to promote your blog. Instead, look at it as a way to listen, to engage, and to discuss. Twitter is two-way conversation, often even more-so than the comments on a blog.

Second, I recommend the book Sociable!. It's a good primer on social media for people that aren't or have no intention of becoming social media experts but want to engage.

Jamie Flinchbaugh
www.jamieflinchbaugh.com

[Kategreysf.wordpress.com]

Bob, I recommend checking out HootSuite. You can easily manage your tweets, see your mentions and direct messages, and shorten your links. The Android app is great too -- it pops mentions up on my phone.
http://hootsuite.com/

And I concur with Jindo Fox -- conversations on Twitter are important too.

[Jindo Fox]

Bob -- glad to see you're on Twitter now. To make the most of it, please do more than simply pipe your RSS feed to Twitter, since a robot can do that. Make an effort to engage in conversation and talk to people and maybe link your Twitter acct to Google Buzz to allow for more lengthy replies.

[Frank B]

Definitely setup your site to automatically tweet new posts. It's instant dissemination of information to the masses, 140 characters at a time. Welcome to the Twitterverse!

[Bret Simmons]

Yes! Welcome to Twitter, Bob. Twitter is a powerful learning community. I can learn new and valuable things everyday from my community on Twitter. Will be nice to give your RT credit for all those articles of yours I share. Bret

[Nikki Massaro Kauffman]

Twitter has been a great way for me to create communities across a large academic institution (or several of them).

Here are some of the materials I've shared in the past concerning Twitter:
Using Twitter: https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/training/Using+Twitter
Using Third-Party Applications for Twitter: https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/training/Using+Third-
Using Hashtags: https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/training/Using+Hashtags
Tagging & Addict-o-matic: https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/training/Tagging+and+Addict-o-matic
Link to a presentation we delivered related to Twitter in Higher Ed: http://doteduguru.com/id3361-eduweb-takeaway-its-about-the-people.html

Good luck & glad to see you on twitter!

[Daniel Christadoss]

Bob,
Your post is a tweet on twitter now @dancrissco.

[Daniel Christadoss]

Bob, welcome to twitter.
I blog on wordpress and it automatically converts my blog to a tweet once the feature is enabled.
Way to go.