You have certainly heard about Twitter. You may have signed up, only to be left with a "what's the point?" feeling. It is true that Twitter can be time consuming and it's not for everybody. But it can also be a strong link in your marketing effort. In this Tutorial section, you'll get a clear overview of Twitter as a community-building and book-marketing tool. And you'll learn how to use Twitter as a "living search engine" for ongoing content you can use.
Twitter Described in Plain English
by one of our favorite how-to video creators, Common Craft
Fine-Feathered Resources
- How to set up a Twitter account
- There is a Twitter help center. Twitter basics.
- Highly recommended, here's a good general guide to Twitter: http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
- There are dozens of applications in support of the basic Twitter service. Indeed, Twitter is fairly useless and soon dull without some of the brilliant apps to augment it. A good place to find rated apps is at oneforty.com.You can sign in via Twitter.
- One of the best ways to streamline your time on Twitter is to schedule Tweets in advance. You can compose tweets then have them post while you are eating dinner or gallery-hopping in Lahaina. The best service I've found for scheduling tweets-as well as managing other social media accounts - is SocialOomph.
John Kremer's Twitter Resources
- I can save my breath by sending you to book marketing king John Kremer's all-in-one-place Twitter resource for writers: www.bookmarket.com/twitter.htm
- John has an often-updated list of Twitter suggestions. You can download it here.
