Little did I realize that my ranting about powerpoint templates yesterday would end up on Mashable today in a post called Twitter Professors: 18 People To Follow for A Real Time Education by Lon S. Cohen.
Recently, I've been asked by some folks about how they can get more followers quickly. One of the tips I've passed along is something I try practice everyday. Be helpful, share what you know freely, and don't just promote your own work.
A few months ago I had the pleasure having dinner with Kevin Gamble, Beth Rainey, and Ann from Extension. I met them two years ago when I did a webinar called "Ten Steps To Extension 2.0" Kevin and I started to share RSS reader tips and habits and he pointed to Feedly an RSS reader that gives you a magazine layout and makes it easy to share links from your reader. (See this review from Mashable).
It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. I figure why hoard the good stuff I find?
What's your routine for sharing information on Twitter?
What tool do you use?
My tools for Twitter:
1) @HootSuite and their awesome URL shortener HootLet
2) @Tweetdeck
3) @TweetLater
Shaun Dakin
@EndTheRobocalls (biz)
@IsCool (personal)
Posted by: Shaun Dakin | February 17, 2009 at 08:17 PM
Twitterfeed might be a solution in a sense that it enables you to post your feed from let's say your blog, google reader shared items, your friendfeed, etc.
Posted by: Guillaume | February 18, 2009 at 04:59 AM
I use a Twitterfeed on my other account - @bethkanter - but that streams posts from people who have linked to me. The google reader option looks good as it would let you handpick what to share.
Posted by: Beth Kanter | February 18, 2009 at 05:10 AM
@tweetdeck
powertwitter to read.
Workflow is often,
post to diigo, which then echoes to delicious and twitter and from there to FaceBook.
I am seeking to build a network around genocide prevention using the #genprev hashtag.
Posted by: tedperl | February 18, 2009 at 05:26 AM
@tedperl thanks for the tip. Do you know Ivan Boothe? You should.
Posted by: Beth Kanter | February 18, 2009 at 06:33 AM
As the face of the Resource Center, @serviceresource, I just share natively, directly to Twitter. Right now I primarily follow only organizations active in the nonprofit and volunteerism sector so as soon as I open Twitter I'm presented with lots of great resources. I retweet a few of those resources each day and add one or two of my own.
I think Holly @ntenhross really hit on something important in the workshop when she mentioned that people LIKE to share, be useful, help people, and answer questions. I know I do, and that's what keeps me sharing every day.
Posted by: Laura Norvig | February 18, 2009 at 01:09 PM
I love twitter. We have found over 200 additional tools and sites that help promote your twitter profile like twello and many many more.
Thank you for the tip and love the blog. Added to my rss subscription!
Posted by: video Promotion | February 20, 2009 at 04:37 PM