Professional Tweeting for Beginners

Professional Tweeting For BeginnersDr Steven Kinnear

Physician & Freelance Consultant

@DrStevenKinnearwww.stevenkinnear.com

What we’ll cover

1. Supercharging your networking2. Keeping up to date3. Engaging and influencing4. Twitter basics5. Hashtags6. Live Tweeting7. Tips for using Twitter well

What do these people have in common?

Keep up to date

Keep up to date

Engage & influence

Engage & influence

Engage & influence

Engage & influence

Engage & influence

Timeline

Name

Handle

Location

Website

Bio

Press the retweet button to resend a tweet to your followers

Choose to retweet or cancel

Press the reply button to reply to a tweet

This opens the reply box

If the tweet contains a link the expanded tweet also shows more information about the link

Clicking on a tweet expands the tweet and opens the reply box

Hashtag

Clicking the hashtag in a tweet searches for the hashtag……..

…and shows the results

Live tweets from the European Respiratory Society Congress

5 Reasons why you should use Twitter

1. You will learn a lot from other people

2. You will stay bang up-to-date with what’s happening in your areas of interest

3. You will be able to share important views, news and information

4. You will be able to network more effectively

5. You will have fun discussing, debating, sharing & learning

Tips for using Twitter

1. Understand what Twitter is2. Lurk & learn3. Be yourself4. Be responsible5. Have a strategy6. Old rules – new tools

Further Information

www.stevenkinnear.com/blog

Questions and hands-on help