The 2009 Tweeter's Almanac First Edition: The Great #Indiana Initiative of Aught Nine

By Amy Stark

Tweeters Almanac is a twitter primer to help build your personal or professional brand while having fun! It also makes a great bathroom book complete with down-home short stories and a tremendous compilation of pithy sayings and wise quotes. It's ideal for: -Baby-Boomers who want to understand Social Media and how it affects the way information and news is disseminated. -Collectors of Quotes from influential thinkers like: Aristotle, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Groucho Marx. Not-For-Profit organizations that are good stewards of donations received. For-Profit organizations that struggle with transparency and must learn how to be authentic without divulging trade secrets. Sociologists who want to participate in the world's largest bridging social-capital group Ever! Avid Tweeters who are tired of defending its importance to Social Media doubters. It's much easier to hand nay-sayers a book so they can learn about it in a medium in which they feel comfortable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781257387892

Book preview

@amystark

How To Use The Tweeter’s Almanac First Edition

➔ Review Twitter 101 For Business and follow its instructions. An excerpt can be found in the introduction.

e9781257387892_i0005.jpg

➔ For each tweet day carefully read through the examples provided in the Almanac then type your own tweet in the field below the question, What are you doing? and click update. If you can’t think of anything that fits the day’s theme answer the question posed by twitter. Better yet, answer the question, What’s on your mind? or What’s the most important thing you want to accomplish today?

➔ After you send your daily tweet be sure to check for tweeters wanting to engage you in a conversation by clicking on the @YourUserName and Direct Messages areas found on the right-hand side of your Home Screen. Reply accordingly.

➔ The Almanac was written to work in conjunction with the basic twitter web interface. If you are just beginning your twitter adventure I recommend waiting until you are comfortable with the basics before selecting a specialized twitter application such as tweetdeck.

➔ NEVER click on a link enticing you to gain 10,000 followers in one week. Tweeters who participate in those schemes also like to watch the home shopping network because there are no commercials. They will add no value to your twitter experience.

➔ Update consistently but not constantly. During your 30 day training period I recommend tweeting at least once a day.

➔ If you have a twitter question send it to a friend with his or her @UserName in the update field rather than sending a Direct Message. You will be giving your friend exposure in the public time-line and giving other tweeters a chance to feel good by answering first.

➔ Take Nancy Myrland’s sound advice, Retweet Early and Retweet Often! Scan through your friend’s tweets for a joke or some bit of wisdom and give them a compliment by introducing them to your follower base.

➔ Check for new followers everyday and unless there is something you find egregiously unacceptable about their profile reciprocate the follow.

➔ DO NOT SELL ANYTHING during the training period. Include your link in your twitter profile and if someone is interested they’ll look. Twitter is not a broadcast media and pushing your own blog posts, e-books and products will get you ignored real fast.

➔ Sign up for a bit.ly account. This is a FREE URL shortening service that tracks the number of clicks a particular link garners. http://bit.ly It’s user friendly and the most advanced skill required is copying and pasting. You may also use a bit.ly URL in your twitter bio.

Editor’s Note:

The vast majority of tweets in this Almanac can be found among my 9,000+ updates (tweets I wrote or ReTweeted and sent into the public time-line). Sports tweets were copied directly from their specific tweet-stream.

When you see the character string: FROM @UserName :: this indicates the tweet was quoted from another person and introduced to my tweet stream as a ReTweet. I thought this would be less confusing for people just beginning their twitter journey. If there is no FROM or RT in front of a tweet it means I wrote the microblog entry myself. Giving credit where credit is due is a Cardinal Rule in Social Media, plus it’s just good