@SarahM and the Giant Sentiment Machine
@SarahM, co-author of the http://bit.ly/TheTwitterBook (with @TimOReilly), speaks at http://bit.ly/postw10 on Harnessing Twitter.
This talk is part of a speaker series for GSBGEN 358 Power of Social Technologies.
My takeaways:
- Directories
- Listorious – http://listorious.com/
- We Follow – http://wefollow.com/
- Google – http://google.com
- Search
- http://search.twitter.com – find tweets on keywords
- http://search.twitter.com/advanced – refine your searches
- How to Tweet
- Talk 80% of others interests, 20% about you
- Ask for help, e.g. recent Haiti efforts
- Keep people apprised—build relationships
- Share success
- Share yourself—funny, interesting relatable story
- Share conversation
- Retweet, shows respect, generous to retweet
Very cool talk, check out the book at http://bit.ly/TheTwitterBook
