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Best Hour of Learning?

Twitter Chats!

Sheila Scarborough / @SheilaS

Social Media Tulsa 2013Founder, #awcchat

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What We'll Cover What IS a chat? A few Twitter basics Finding Twitter chats How to participate in a chat Starting a Twitter chat yourself Q & A

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Twitter is NOT about

what you had for lunch

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Let's review some Twitter terminology

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@

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@ = A Twitter name, or Twitter handle

@SMTulsaCheryl

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@TravelOK

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#

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# = hashtags for Twitter chats, or a hashtagged word on Twitter

#builtheritage

#assnchat

#tourismchat

#agchat

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Interest-based hashtags may or may not also be a chat.

#eventprofs

#TBEX

#FriFotos

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Twitter Chat How-To Basics

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Twitter Chat Basics Most chats last one hour (fast!) Consistent time & day Most are series of discussion items:

host tweets have Q1, Q2, etc. Answer tweets usually A1, A2, etc. Host has associated chat blog,

Facebook Page or website

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Finding a chat

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Finding relevant chats Do a search string

"Gardening Twitter chat OR hashtag"

"Birding Twitter chat" "Muscle car chat on Twitter"

New TweetReports resource at http://tweetreports.com/twitter-chat-schedule/

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Some chats for you #blogchat – bloggers – follow @MackCollier

Sundays, 8 – 9 pm CST

#nptalk – nonprofits – follow @NPtalk 1st & 3rd Wednesdays, 2 – 3 pm CST

#designchat – creatives – follow @designchat Wednesdays, 8 – 9 pm CST

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Some chats for you #PR20chat – modern PR – follow @pr20chat

Tuesdays, 8 – 9 pm EST

#SoloPR – solo PR folks – follow @SoloPR Wednesdays, 1 – 2 pm EST

#brandchat – brand managers – follow @brandchat

Wednesdays, 11am – 12pm EST

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Participating in a Twitter chat

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Show up!

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Getting Started on Twitter

Open a Twitter account Thoroughly fill out your profile/bio Do link to your

website/blog/something Have a photo – no one trusts the

Egg People!

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Chat Etiquette Lurking is fine at first Contributions & participation are MUCH

appreciated by chat hosts Stay on topic Don't be all about you & your links Help bring people to the chat & later, to

the transcript

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Twitter Chat Tools Twitter Search: search.twitter.com Dashboards like TweetDeck & HootSuite TweetChat: tweetchat.com/@TweetChat Twitter smartphone apps Transcript tools like Chirpstory & Storify

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Starting Your Own Chat Thought leadership It's crowded out there! Give it a home (website, blog, Facebook

Page) Pick a time that works for you Pick topics for at least 8 – 10 chats Participation can be tough nut

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Photo Credits What's for lunch

(JohnSeb Flickr)

Chats on anything (Colorful pencils via Rilind Hoxha Flickr)

Sheila & phone (courtesy Hawaii Social Media Summit & Justin R. Dotson on Facebook)

Two-rocket launch (jurvetson Flickr)

Tools (InvernoDreaming Flickr)

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ThanksVery

Much!

Q&A

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