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For the last few months, I’ve been focused on how to help people understand and use Twitter for business. As part of my preparation to speak at the WritersUA conference about using Twitter, I developed a new ebook, Twitter for Beginners. I’m pleased to share this ebook with you today.
The ebook focuses on using Twitter for business. It covers the following information:
- How to understand and use Twitter’s features.
- The importance of defining your Twitter business goal.
- Best practices for setting up your Twitter account profile.
- Strategies for defining your Twitter community.
- Guidelines for crafting effective messages.
- Procedures for using each message type.
- Deciphering message components and their importance.
- Planning weekly activities that build your Twitter success.
- Starting to use Twitter on your mobile internet-enabled device.
I’m happy to share this ebook with you. As always, let me know how you use this resource. I’m really interested to hear what information was the most helpful to you.
I hold the copyright to this ebook, but I’m publishing it under a Creative Commons license that allows you to print, copy, share, and publish it as long as you don’t change the ebook. For more information about the Creative Commons license, use the link in the document to learn what you can and cannot do.
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I love it. Thanks for the cool resource! I have a class coming up that we will be able to use this at.
Thanks for the mention in the book!
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Posted 06 Apr 2009 at 2:31 pm ¶Thanks for sharing your insight and knowledge. I’m looking forward to reviewing the ebook.
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Posted 06 Apr 2009 at 3:50 pm ¶Thank you so much for this informative beginner guide to Twitter. I am teaching the agents in our real estate office about Twitter and this will be great to share with them so they can get started.
LA
Posted 06 Apr 2009 at 7:33 pm ¶Just getting started with Twitter. Great presentation!
Posted 06 Apr 2009 at 7:44 pm ¶Thanks for sharing this informative ebook! Just tweeted the post via @stefanw …
Posted 07 Apr 2009 at 10:01 am ¶My publisher alerted me to your message and I am eager to learn how to use Twitter. It appears you have simplified the mysterious process.
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 6:02 am ¶Thanks to everyone for the comments. I hope my ebook helps you find your path through the Twitter forest. Do return and let me know how it works out for you.
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 12:10 pm ¶thank you for sharing this eBook, can’t wait to read it fully. also retweeted it for you.
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 6:03 pm ¶It’s fab. So thorough. Extremely well organized. Friendly. Wise!
Posted 08 Apr 2009 at 8:22 pm ¶Excellent presentation. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted 09 Apr 2009 at 1:30 am ¶Thank you, great resource for even the seasoned tweeter, not me of course. Very well thought out.
Posted 11 Apr 2009 at 9:10 pm ¶Excellent resource that puts all the key things you need to know about twitter into a succinct format. I am trying to introduce twitter to the teachers at my school but they just don’t get it …yet. Hopefully, your book will assist.
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Posted 11 Apr 2009 at 11:44 pm ¶I am beginning to use Twitter as a communication tool in our school community. This resource will certainly help my team. Thank you so much!
Posted 12 Apr 2009 at 8:56 pm ¶Thank you so much. Delightful, easy to understand. I am working with SCORE (free advice to small businesses, start ups and existing), not for profits and I also teach college. This will be very valuable in helping them understand how to get started. A lot of good karma is coming your way. Best of everything, D
Posted 22 Apr 2009 at 7:19 am ¶Thank you for this ebook!! It was very, very helpful.
Posted 22 Apr 2009 at 11:25 am ¶Thanks for the free resource!
Posted 24 Apr 2009 at 9:05 am ¶In the future I would suggest trying to collect some information from people upfront (email address minimum) before giving them the resource. This is so that you can get a direct, measureable benefit from the good work that you have done: information on potential clients!
Thanks to everyone who has left a message here. I do appreciate hearing from you!
Zahra: My intention with this work was to give people free and easy access to the information. I know requiring registration is a common practice, but I felt it would impede the flow of information. I made the decision NOT to require registration. The ebook contains my contact information. If an ebook lands in the hands of someone who wants to engage my services, they can find me easily. I’ve found that push advertising doesn’t work. I don’t need thousands of email addresses. I need a few clients who are eager to use my services. That’s why I have taken this strategy.
Posted 24 Apr 2009 at 10:41 am ¶Fantastic e-book for Twitter beginners like me! I could not understand DM’ing (Direct Messaging) no matter how much I tried this and tried that, until I read your well-put, easy-to-understand, e-book!
Thank you so much for the help!
You did a great job on the e-book.
Sincerely,
Christine Toomey
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Posted 02 May 2009 at 11:34 am ¶Many thanks for sharing this wonderful ebook… Information provided is really of great help…
Regards
Posted 04 May 2009 at 10:04 am ¶SK
great, can i translate it to chinese?
Posted 04 May 2009 at 10:05 pm ¶Just getting started with Twitter and your T4B was recommended. It is something I will refer back to more than once. Thanks so very much for your “give away.” Keep reaching for the stars.
Mark
Posted 17 May 2009 at 1:19 pm ¶While preparing a brief spiel for a client about Twitter for beginners, I found myself searching for references and remembered you tweeting about your Ebook back in April. Congrats on it making such a big impact… Many thanks. I’ll be sure to give credit!
@BlairHatz
Posted 16 Jun 2009 at 3:36 pm ¶Thanks for such a well done e-book. I look forward to reading it all the way through.
What sort of software do you use to create your e-books? It looks far more sophisticated than MSWord
I’d like to create one on an entirely different topic.
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Posted 08 Jul 2009 at 1:54 pm ¶Diane: Thanks for the kind comment. I used MS Publisher because it has a few more formatting features than Word. They can be done in Word, and in fact, would be easier in some ways. I did the writing in Word, and then plunked it into Publisher because Publisher lacks the nice editing features of Word. It’s a trade-off either way.
Good luck with your ebook. Did you see my post about them: http://blog.crowinfodesign.com/2008/12/09/getting-started-ebooks/
Posted 08 Jul 2009 at 4:08 pm ¶Thanks, Blair. I love using the Creative Commons license for exactly that reason. People can reuse what I’ve done instead of reinventing the wheel.
Posted 12 Jul 2009 at 7:29 pm ¶I’m working for a PR firm in town and wanted to give one of our clients a resource on how to Twitter.. and remembered seeing your ebook awhile back. Still a great read the second time around!
Thanks for your expertise!!
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Thanks, Tony. I’ve given it a Creative Commons license so it can be shared freely with others.
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