26 Mar 10 Do You Tweet? Part 2
Promoting an upcoming event is a critical skill for a meeting and event planner. Social networking applications, such as Twitter, can make the promotion process faster and more exciting. Most people agree that once you catch on the joy of the tweet, there is no going back.
Twitter users can send a tweet to an individual, a group, or make a public tweet that is available to anyone. Confidential information must be kept private, so tweet thoughtfully and with care. Once you’ve opened your Twitter account and sent out a few experimental tweets, the next step is keeping track of incoming responses. Many people find Tweetdeck a useful tool.
Tweetdeck is an application compatible with PCs and iPhones that allows users to sign in, check their tweets, and organize followers into groups. Twitter doesn’t allow sorting followers into groups, one of the main advantages of a Tweetdeck account. It allows users to separate messages to business clients from those sent to friends or family members.
Become a follower. More and more people are joining Twitter; your clients, vendors, and professional organizations may be among them. Stay professional and use complete words at least when texting clients. Your sister might understand “How r u?” but texting abbreviations could leave your clients unimpressed.
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24 Mar 10 Do You Tweet? Part 1
Meeting and event planners are always on the lookout for ways to spread the work about upcoming events. Social networking is more important than ever before and includes more than just face-to-face interaction. Facebook, Live Journal, blogs, and Twitter are wonderful methods of connecting with clients. Twitter probably generates more and quicker responses to a question or announcement than any other method of communication.
Tweets, the 140 character text-based posts sent to the author’s followers, are quick, concise time savers. It is much easier to text a tweet to a large group than to send a comparable number of emails. The tweet can share a thought, ask a question, or even direct the group to a blog post announcement of an upcoming event. Retweeting, passing along a message to someone not part of the core group, spreads the word of your next meeting even further.
Twitter is more efficient than email. You can send a message to an individual just as you can in an email, or to your followers, which is comparable to sending carbon copy (cc) email to a group. Notices of incoming tweets speed to your group’s computers or cell phones and many people check for tweets many times a day.
We'll continue to explore the Twitter revolution in Part 2.
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