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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