Comments on: Social Media Marketing for Beginners: Twitter Explained in Plain English

By: Emilia Doerr

Emilia Doerr — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:59:43 +0000

Hi Karen! Thanks for exploring social media marketing with us! Glad to hear you are inspired to try new things like Twitter – and I’m confident that you have such a great foundation on how to strategically use these tools to meet your goals! To the wild web and beyond!

By: Karen Kearsley

Karen Kearsley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:04:00 +0000

Hi Emilia,
Great class on Social Media Marketing at UCSB! Sorry it’s over so soon. There was a lot of terrific content. The guest speakers were amazing! All the Twitter examples encourage me to start exploring it as a way to promote our vacation rentals in Santa Barbara. I heartily recommend the Social Media Marketing to others who would like to know how to promote their business on the wild wild web using all the social media tools that are available. See you on Twitter!

By: Emilia Doerr

Emilia Doerr — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:03:07 +0000

Hi Mike! Great article on Twitter – thanks for sharing. I agree that this is a very basic intro to Twitter but I like it because it touches an important point – that Twitter can be used to create immediate and direct connections with people who care (friends, family, customers, potential clients, etc.) And organizations and professionals are harnessing this in so many ways – like you want to know what people in higher education are doing and caring about and it provides you direct access to individuals in that community. There is plenty of potential that we are still uncovering – and I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts! See ya on Twitter too!

By: Mike McCready

Mike McCready — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:52:09 +0000

I usually like most of the CommonCraft videos produced, but I have to admin that I don’t like this one. ‘What are you doing?’ While that may be how Twitter and most people promote Twitter, from a professional/business point-of-view, it doesn’t make sense.

To be honest, I am not overly concerned about what people doing. I use Twitter from mostly a professional/networking frameset. I have met and communicated with some great people in higher education web (my industry) and learned some valuable information. Quite often I’ll share with my web guys a tool or article and they asked, ‘Where did you find it?’ My answer is usually Twitter.

I wrote an article about my experiences and observations of Twitter.

I’m glad you’re promoting the use of the Twitter and I do think at a very basic level, the CommonCraft video is good, but the important thing is to find a practical and effective use of Twitter. That usually amounts to more than ‘What are you doing?’

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uberVU - social comments — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:29:36 +0000

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