Five Ways Your Chamber Can Use Twitter
March 31, 2009 in Business Development
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Some chambers of commerce are already using Twitter as a way to extend their conversations with members and prospects using social media. Twitter is sort of a cross between instant messaging and micro-blogging and it is becoming very popular. Watch “Twitter in Plain English” for more info.
First, set up a Twitter account for your chamber and upload an image for your photo. Complete your profile with a link back to your site or your blog. Now you’re ready to:
1. Start “listening” – Use search.twitter.com to find out who is “tweeting” about your chamber or other topic you’re following. See this post for more information. (Note: your posts on Twitter are called “tweets” since they are limited to 140 characters and intended to be short bits of information.) You can also use a service called Twilert that will deliver the results to you in email rather than use an RSS feed. Enter your search terms and how often you want to receive updates. (Twilert is very similar to Google Alerts, except that it just searches tweets.). “Listen” for your chamber name, chamber programs or key business terms for your community. Both of these services will provide what was mentioned with a link to the actual tweet. From there you can reply to the user or click through to their profile to view who they are, where they are located and click through to their website (if they have provided that info).
