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I was writing yesterday about what seemed to make a good ‘tweet’ and it occurred to me that one might sum it all up as Tweet others as you would be Tweeted – nice line I thought, then this morning, I thought it rather summed up up the whole approach to successful networking.  What do […][...] read more » 21st Century Philosophy – Tweet others as you would be tweeted

I seem to remember my mother saying “What are you twittering on about?” when I was young and she was harassed.  This usually happened when I was gabbling away nineteen to the dozen.  Too much noise and not enough information!  That kind of sums up my Twitter dilemma.  I’m finding it hard to contact / […][...] read more » My Twitter lessons .. No 6 (what are you Twittering on about?!)

Name: Nikki Pilkington      Twitter name: @NikkiPilkington What is your main Change challenge at present? As the business that I run and the industry that I am in is ever changing, it is difficult to pinpoint one area of change that is a challenge. In Internet Marketing change is constant, as new and more effective ways […][...] read more » Social Media Entrepreneur’s Interviews No5 – Nikki Pilkington

Name: Penny Power Twitter name: @pennypower What is your main Change challenge at present? Helping business people understand that social networking is critical when they are building their business and brining context and understanding to the way that Social Media is a tool but cannot be used in isolation to networking What is your strategy […][...] read more » Social Media Entrepreneur’s Interviews No4 – Penny Power

Yesterday my daughter came back from university, having just completed her degree in Art History.  She wants to work in an art gallery but apparently, it is hard to get in without an entree.  I thought this might be a good case for trying the power of Twitter as a random engine generator.   So I […][...] read more » My Twitter lessons .. No 5 (The Experiment)

Name: Ces Loftus          Twitter name:@Ces_Creatively What is your main Change challenge at present? Over the last 6 months or so I have done a lot of embracing change. I run Creatively Minded Design with my husband Jay and due to the economic down turn a lot of small businesses in the genre that we had […][...] read more » Social Media Entrepreneur’s Interviews No3 – Ces Loftus

This is the second in this series of interviews.  I can think of few people who have taken to using social media more successfully than Sarah.  Indeed it has been so natural, that i wonder if she realises how big a change it really represents? Name: Sarah Arrow               Twitter name: @Essex_courier What is your main […][...] read more » Social Media Entrepreneur’s Interviews No2 – Sarah Arrow

This is the first in a series of interviews with some very interesting and successful people who are actively using social media, and as expected focuses on Change:- Name: Andy Preston                                       Twitter name: @AndyPreston What is your main Change challenge at present? Andy: With my company and my clients, it’s adapting to the change in […][...] read more » Social Media Entrepreneurs Interviews No1 – Andy Preston

Once you have your account, and have some folks who are ‘tuning in’ you then need to start the real business of actually saying something, because, of course, your followers are unlikely to stick around if you either say nothing or broadcast rubbish.  It seems to me that the favourite content areas are:- Quotes:  This […][...] read more » My Twitter Lessons .. No 4 (Content is King)

There are all sorts of applications to help you with Twitter (Google gives you 46m hits for Twitter Top Tools!).  They can do all sorts of things and one big tip is to do this search and read through what people recommend.  One of my issues was I had no idea what to even look […][...] read more » My Twitter Lessons .. No 3 (Twitter Tools)