MicroBlogging - The Newest PR Tool

Posted by Lorraine on November 29th, 2008

There has been lots of conversation about Twitter lately. This video, which I found on Smaller Indiana, (Thanks Pat) is the best explanation I have seen as to what Twitter is and how it works.

While interesting, it doesn’t really address why small business owners should consider using it.

Twitter is fun, but is also good for business.  It is a wonderful way to see what other people are thinking about issues and products.

If you are writing blog posts to build traffic for your website ( and you should be), it is a great way to build exposure and a following for your blog.  Especially by incorporating TwitterFeed, so your followers automatically see when you have a new blog post to read.

If you are hoping to make connections, or conduct research, Twitter can do that as well.

But a word of caution, it can become addicting, listening in on the steady stream of conversation, so find your balance point, commit time to Twitter, just as you would any other networking activity, and watch the results.

And if you do add Twitter to your routine, you can follow me at: www.twitter.com/roundeg

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Warren Whitlock said,

November 29, 2008 @ 3:31 pm

Wonderful to see you sharing Twitter with your readers. That video is the best place to start.

It’s naturally to look at Twitter and micro-blogging as a waste of time at first, so I would guess that readers may be saying “yeah, but I still don’t get it.

I’ve talked to thousands of Twitter users, and all stages of using the service (or not) and wrote this guide.

“The 3 Stages of Twitter Acceptance”

You can read it on my blog http://budurl.com/3stages

Warren Whitlock
Co-Author of “Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online”

Lorraine said,

November 29, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

Thanks Warren.. Your 3 stages sound like many of my friends too.

And for those looking for more reasons to use Twitter.. check out this post by By Mike Fruchter of http://www.MichaelFruchter.com that he wrote as a guest blog on http://www.lousigray.com - titled: We’ve only just begun to syndicate

Stacey said,

November 30, 2008 @ 5:08 pm

Thank you for the info about Twitterfeed!

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