Day 2: Twitter & Social Media Marketing
Jul
08, 2010 |Filed in:
UncategorizedBefore I get started on my next set of notes, I need to know if the new Amazon links have annoyed everyone else or is it just how my system is set up? Right now, everytime I come to my site I have to click on a popup window six times before it will let me do anything. I’ve noticed a drop in comments since I tried using the links and if the links are why there’s a drop, they’re not worth it!
This was a talk given by Janet Lane who is definitely more Twitter-savvy than I. Almost everyone is. LOL. That said, she gave us a two-page HANDOUT of Applications and ideas for marking Twitter work for you. I haven’t had time to implement any of them, but I will. I promise! Applications she mentioned:
- Twitpic.com Lets you share photos on Twitter.
- Tweetdeck.com is a realtime application that allows users to monitor information from several social media into one concise view. (Sounds like heaven, doesn’t it?)
- Digsby.com is a social networking tool that alerts you to events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to.
- Twittercounter.com is like the CPA of Twitterworld, where you can glean such stats as the top ten followed Twitter users, who has the most followers, friends and tweets. In every time zone.
- Twitterfeed.com allows you to feed your blog into Twitter. You provide the URL of a blog’s RSS feed and how often you want to post to Twitter. Twitterfeed does the rest. Halleluiah.
- Twitterholic.com will help you find out who the most popular twitter users are.
- Twhirl.com connects Twitter and other social media sites, notifies you of new messages, cross-posts and shortens long URLS.
- Twitturly.com tracks and ranks what URLs people are talking about on Twitter.
- Twtpoll.com is a feedback tool that helps you to create and distribute polls on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites.
That’s part one of my Twitter-repeat performance of Janet’s talk. I’ll do the rest in a few days. Final notes and suggestions include: Save social media networking for your end-of-day activites (assuming you write in the mornings). Fix your wallpaper on Twitter so that it mimics what you’ve got on your blog. You do have a blog, right? Retweet when you have nothing to say. If you don’t, you’re not doing your followers any favors and they can stop following you because you’re such a lump. (Ok, the lump part is what I wrote in my notes, and not what Janet said!) To look up topics within Twitter, do a search for your topic like this: #literary agent.
Anyone else have awesome Twitter suggestions? It might take me awhile to get the hang of Twitter, but I will try. 🙂
This is so helpful, but I'm not a Twitterer yet! When I do, I'll take another look at this. In the meantime, I'm bookmarking it!
Lots of great suggestions. Maybe someday I'll get to that. Keeping up with a blog is about all I can do these days.
Oh, and I don't know what Amazon links you're referring to.
I'm so glad you posted this! I was at a loss on what all these different sites were, which was best, etc. And lately I am a #twitterfail. I just haven't had the time. And don't get me started on facebook! Ugh. So much to do! But thanks for this info – I needed it. 🙂
Thanks for coming by, Lydia! I'm honestly not much of a Twitterer myself. I understand how it could be useful, but I'm just a lousy user. LOL. I'm hoping once I can get some of these applications up I'll do better because I'll be automated. LOL
Janet, I'm the same way. (See above statement. I'm doing good to GET automated these days. When am I supposed to WRITE?) The Amazon links aren't always apparent but I tried to monetize this site because of all the books I review. I know I've actually sold a few, so I thought monetizing COULD be worth it. So far, the links seems to cause a feedback loop for me and I get the same message six times before it lets me log in or do anything on the site. WAY too irritating. Of course, I haven't taken the time to find out if there's a cure….
Thanks for stopping by, TK! I admit, I'm more active on FB than on Twitter. There's something offensive to my sensibilities about anything called "Twitter." I think I FEEL like a birdbrain when I use it. LOL But it has value. It does. Grits her teeth…. LOL
On a side note, how are sales on your book?
Government Funding / Research Scandal
Visit the website that the Canadian House of Commons and numerous Universities across North America have as well.
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It's an ingenious form of white collar crime:
PHD credentials / contacts, an expendable family, participation of a dubious core of established professionals, Unaudited Government agency funding GamblingResearch.org ), identity protected by Privacy Commissioner Office of Canada, (Jennifer Stoddart), unlimited funding (under the guise of research grants), PHD individuals linked with the patient (deter liability issues), patient diagnosed with mental illness (hospital committed events = no legal lawyer access/rights), cooperation of local University and police (resources and security); note the Director of Brock Campus Security.
This all adds up to a personal ATM; at the expense of Canadian Taxpayers!
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"convinced" to be taken to St. Catharines General hospital (2001) and conveniently diagnosed with a "mental illness" (hint: Hallucination type; "forced" to consume "prescribed"
corresponding medication for "cognitive" purposes )
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**The Psych convinces the patients fragmented family, 70 yr old mother, 10 yr old nephew and his divorced sister (who rented across the incredibly beautiful home of Marianne Edwards ( ex-Brock instructor ) and her husband (lawyer)), to move in together. They comply and obey to the "Doctor's" credentials, contacts, and financial gifts.
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"Where" and "How" have the participants been receiving their (lavish?) incomes from the past 8 years? Government Agencies like Click here: http://www.gamblingresearch.org (annual
grants up to 500 k ) ?
The link above takes you directly to one of their research teams. Lisa Root, ironically, met with me during the 2001 incident as a C.A.M.H. employee, who I was "encouraged" to meet.
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Medicine Gone Bad
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My advice is to use hashtags and participate in chats that are followed by them. I notice a spike in followers with this method.
I'm a brand new Twitterer myself. I tried to think how I would use it and decided that it would feature mostly 'chirps' like favorite quotes, and links to interesting articles I find online, specifically about writing and libraries.
I discovered that folks in the publishing industry are Twitter fanatics!
You can find me at: http://twitter.com/rahmama
ARGH! I've been blog spammed. Have to find out how to delete those.
Medeia, thanks for mentioning the hashmarks! I've tried figuring that out, but still feel inept. I may have follow your hashes around and see what you're doing. I'd like to do the #askagent thing, but I'm still closer to @Twitterfailure than anything else.
Thanks for the twitter address, Rahma. I'll go find you. ;D And yes, I'm astonished how many agents love to Twitter. Blogging seems so much more of a fit, I have trouble getting into Twitter, but I think I'm in the minority!
Ugh. I'm such a bad tweeter I don't know why I have an account. I see some pretty busy writers there, but I just don't have the time or energy to pop by more than a few times a month.
When I'm ready to jump in, I'll stop back here for your notes.
social media like twitter can be the center of your marketing strategy, optimizing your site or content and making it an attention magnet.