5. Web 2.0
linking people… people sharing… collaborating.
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6. What is Twitter?
• Definition: a social networking and micro-
blogging service that allows you answer the
question, quot;What are you doing?quot; by sending
short text messages 140 characters in length,
called quot;tweetsquot;, to your friends, or quot;followers.”
7. A nice halfway point
Less personal than
More chatty than
is not a walled garden.
9. Trending News
• Google is no longer the place to look for
trending news. http://google.com/trends
• Twitter is the place to hear about what people
are really talking about.
• Search tools:
– http://search.twitter.com
– http://twazzup.com
12. Twitter Search by Location
• Use: Twitterholic.com
• Follow active people like @realtordan62 in
your community
• http://twitterholic.com/top100/followers/byl
ocation/Sammamish,+WA/
13. Value of Twitter
• Trust • Sales
• Visibility • Research
• Relevance • Marketing
• Relationships • Networking
• Social capital • Customer service
• Community • Traffic
• Ideas • News
• SEO
21. Case Study: Breathable Glass
1. Username: Eisch; BreathableWineGlass; MercerImports;
CathyMercer and use a real photo of yourself.
2. Use a tool to search people’s bio’s: www.tweepsearch.com
3. Search for: wine, love wine, wine lover, ceo, entrepreneur
4. Follow those people
5. Find someone w/ huge following: twitter.com/MustLoveWine
6. Tweet: wines that you like to drink; “Amazing! Just opened
up a bottle of Chateau Lafite 1787 check out my tasting
notes: www.mercerimports.com/blog...”
7. Other things to Tweet about: Customer testimonials, events,
specials or promotions, handle customer service via Twitter.
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Steve Broback @sbroback CEO of TeachStreet
Jason Preston @jasonp107 @daveschappell
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Notes de l'éditeur
I started to blog, started accounts on: • Facebook• Digg• Flickr• Ning• Plaxo• Plurk•Technorati• Twitter• YouTube.Social Media junkie. Time? bootstrapping startup creative ways to find customers.traditional marketing expensive $1800 on direct mail < 1% results I found that a bit demoralizing.