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Weekly Twitter Steps

Jen Lee ReevesSocial Communications Trainer

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Using Twitter to the Fullest

• Personal– Talk to people– Meet people– Share with each other

• Professional– Connect with new audience members– Build a more personal relationship– Share and gather information quickly

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Using Twitter to the Fullest

• Gather information quickly– #hashtag conversations– Lists to follow– Post updates/share your work

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Using Twitter to the Fullest

• Best tip for following Twitter– Use a tool

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Week One

• Each person in the office should find and follow at least 5 Twitter accounts

• Share those accounts with everyone else• Take the time to listen!!

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Week Two

• Have at least one conversation with a person on Twitter.

• If you don’t know who to talk to, talk to Jen Reeves: @jenleereeves

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Week Three

• Build at least one list• Subscribe to one list

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Week Four

• Pick a topic you are interested in• Search around to see the conversations• Follow a

#hashtag that is focused on that topic

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Week Five

• Try a Twitter management tool– Hootsuite– Tweetdeck

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When You Join Social Spaces

• Join the Yammer SocialCommunications group

• Share links to yourprofiles

• Tweet @aarp to givethe Social Comm teamthe heads up

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Twitter App Tips

• Jen’s favorite iPhone/iPad Twitter apps– Twitter– Tweetbot– Hootsuite

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Stay in Touch with Jen

• @jenleereeves• jlreeves@aarp.org• jenleereeves.com• facebook.com/jenleereeves• pinterest.com/jenleereeves• delicious.com/jenleereeves• about.me/jenleereeves