How to Twitter

Over the last week or so, I have become friends with @gagasgarden. Gaga is great because instead of just trying to figure out Twitter on her own, she is willing to ask questions, and great questions at that. As I have been trying to help this fine lady out, I have also had flashbacks to a few months ago when I was getting started, when I had all of the same questions Gaga has been asking me. There wasn’t really an easy-to-find resource that had all of the basic questions that I was finding horribly confusing. I was too shy to ask because I was just sure someone would make fun of me for not knowing this stuff. With that in mind, I put together this little presentation on some of the real basic steps involved in getting started on Twitter. I hope it helps! If you have any questions, just holler!

17 Comments

  1. Gaga on October 16, 2010 at 8:34 am

    Margie,
    I was just going to send a message regarding professional Tweets versus private identities and this your Tweet and Video training is the very message that was up on Twtitter! Now I know you have ESP and are psychic and maybe I don’t have the IQ for Twitter! lol
    Thanks so much for this training clip I have to watch it a couple more times!
    Gaga

    • Margie Clayman on October 16, 2010 at 9:05 am

      Well, I give credit to you for asking the questions! Let me know if I need to cover other stuff as you go along πŸ™‚

  2. Bob James on October 16, 2010 at 8:47 am

    Terrific tutorial! Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Twitter (But Were Afraid to Ask). Thanks for doing this.

    • Margie Clayman on October 16, 2010 at 9:05 am

      Hmm. Your title is much better.

      Maybe I’ll have you write my presentation titles from now on πŸ™‚

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  4. Jason Sokol on October 16, 2010 at 10:50 am

    Marjorie,

    Another excellent post and resource. I have already recommended that several of my friends and coworkers watch this video. Thank you so much for doing this.

    Jason

    • Margie Clayman on October 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm

      Thanks so much, Jason. I appreciate it πŸ™‚

  5. Cristian Gonzales on October 16, 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Margie,

    This is terrific. This is the kind of preso I would see my prior agency doing sometimes for corporate directors or what not (the ones who were clueless about social media). The difference is yours is more clear, and it’s more detailed, which is what makes it stand out for me.

    Great job.

    • Margie Clayman on October 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm

      Well thanks, Cristian. As soon as I finished I kept thinking, “Oh man…I should have talked about that. I should have talked about this.” Oh well. Glad it “reads” well πŸ™‚

  6. Miller Finch on October 16, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    Hi Margie,
    Thank you for putting this video together. Where were you three months ago?! πŸ™‚ I sure could have used this instead of putting in hours in trying to learn Twitter from bits and pieces all over the internet. Your video still gives me a lot of great info! Thanks for that.

    And it’s really neat hearing your voice to connect to your photo & name!

    Keep up all the great work you do. You are a gem!

    Cheers!
    Miller Finch

    • Margie Clayman on October 16, 2010 at 3:35 pm

      Three months ago I was just figuring all of this out πŸ™‚ So glad it was helpful!

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  8. Alan Berkson on October 17, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    Margie,

    This is a great resource. It’s going right into my toolkit when I talk to businesses and individuals about using twitter.

    Thanks!
    -Alan Berkson

    • Margie Clayman on October 17, 2010 at 10:17 pm

      So glad you like it! I wonder if I should try to make it shorter…hm…

  9. Kimberly A. Graham on October 24, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    Fabulous! Now, I want to watch this on the plane next week . . .is there any way to download it?

    And yanno, people would pay for this webinar, just sayin.’ It’s really such a great basic TwitterEducation. TwitterUniversity? Twitter101?

    I do like Bob’s title a lot.

    • Margie Clayman on October 24, 2010 at 8:16 pm

      Thanks, Kim. For now – I’m happy just to be able to help people.

      Not downloadable – it’s a link to MyBrainshark.com. But it should work just like YouTube πŸ™‚

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