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Twitter Basics webinar materials available

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By Jean Hodges
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Twitter Basics webinar given June 30, 2011, by Jean Hodges, manager of content development for GateHouse Media News & Interactive Division.

Here is the PowerPoint and other supporting materials for the Twitter Basics webinar given June 30, 2011, by Jean Hodges, manager of content development for GateHouse Media News & Interactive Division. If you have ways you've used Twitter successfully that you want to share, shoot me an email or respond in comments.

Twitter Basics PowerPoint

Instructions for using Twitter in Zope

10 Twitter Basics Takeaways

  1. Get a Twitter account
  2. Follow news organizations, industry experts
  3. Follow everyone they follow
  4. Use limited Twitter feed (set up Twitter section in Zope to create feed)
  5. Supplement with human posts: tweet & retweet
  6. Try Zope’s new feature: Tweet from Zope
  7. Don’t bombard followers with Tweets
  8. Promote Twitter online, print
  9. Use Twitter as a reporting tool
  10. Check ghnewsroom.com for resources, links

Twitter resources, tools

Twitter for Journalists

Twitter glossary

SocialMedia411

Hashtags.org

HootSuite

TweetDeck

URL shortener Bit.ly

URL shortener Goo.gl

 

 

 

 

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Jean Hodges served as a reporter and editor for more than 20 years and led groundbreaking projects that won national acclaim before coming to GateHouse to launch the company's news service. She worked most recently at the Chicago Sun-Times' Daily Southtown, covering the south side and south suburbs of Chicago. Before that she worked at the Killen (Texas) Daily Herald, the Clovis (N.M.) News Journal and the Ely Standard in Cambridgeshire, England. She now works with GateHouse news organizations on content strategies, Web initiatives, plus she leads training programs such as webinars and LEDE, GateHouse's leadership program.





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