Twitter School for KCRW Staff
Here are the slides from a Twitter School presentation that I gave at some point. I’ll do my best to keep it relevant.
No Big Deal
Though my most ambitious association to Susan Orlean is due to a Charlie Kaufman movie called Adaptation, it’s still wicked cool to me that I had this online brush with her! That movie is probably on my top 10 of…
New Twitter! Same as the old Twitter?
It’s happening. Twitter has been redesigned… and I had no idea. We did get an Twitter Insider’s tip from way back that mentioned that hashtags were going to be rebranded by Twitter, but I shrugged it off. How could Twitter…
Tweets You Wish to Delete
What if I make a mistake or tweet something that I wish I could take back? When I first started working for KCRW I once tweeted about “President Obama’s Nobel Peach Prize.” I kinda thought I might lose my job…
My Twitter Profile in Visual Data
This too is too fun. You simply must play with it. visua.ly/twitter. I can think of a million ways to be better at twitter. A lot of it revolves around needing more time and tenacity. While the metrics used here…
Get your community to tweet for your brand
How? Trade Desirable MEDIA for MARKETING. St. Vincent did. Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent announced that a track from Strange Mercy would be unlocked when enough Twitter users to tweeted the hashtag “#strangemercy.” In fact, her social efforst across the board have…
Hey DJs! Want more twitter followers!?
To those of you that tweet while you are on-air, I thought that you might be interested to learn how show hosts @DanielTosh & @JimmyFallon have totally nailed the strategy of merging On Air Time with Twitter. Tosh gained over…
Hootsuite
Hootsuite totally strong armed me into entering into a paid plan with them in order to keep up with the efficient paradigm of multiple social media account management. I guess it’s worth my $5 a month or whatever it is….
Tweet or ReTweet
Q: Should I use the built in Twitter Retweet functionality, or tweet with the RT code? Let’s start with the basics of what the Retweet or RT is! Simply, its a copy/paste action where you send out an original tweet…
My Twitter Personality
So, I just did a personality analysis based on my twitter account (see below) and my spacey/valley girl score cracks me up. That the UPBEAT marks are pretty high is no surprise! The application to my online social sharing habits…