Another Twitter-torial: How to Engage People on Twitter

Twitter-torial: How to Get Followed on Twitter

WebWatch: Twitter and its entourage of apps

Using Twitter for business was all the rage at the Email Marketing Sumit this year, so with a bit of a “here we go again with even more social media eck eck” yawn, I decided to check in and see what it was all about.  Three days later, I am completely and irrevocably HOOKED.

Apart from the opportunity to see daily just what an awesome couple Ashton & Demi really are (he asked everyone to help him greet her good morning and she got thousands of “Good Morning, I love you messages” when she woke up! Awwww!)… how funny Christopher Walken is… what Perez Hilton is squealing about at any given moment (yesterday it was Madonna. He thinks she’s God) … and more, I also now see what an incredibly powerful  business tool it really is.  (More about that in future posts - am busy reading what P Diddy, MC Hammer and Michael Urie are saying.)

If you aren’t on Twitter yet, try it out!  I’ve posted a couple of great “Getting Started on Twitter” videos below, courtesy of Rich Brooks of Flyte New Media.

You can also find an article about 27 cool Twitter applications here.  (My faves so far: Twitter Gallery, Digsby, Splitweet and twtQpon) 

Happy Tweeting!  You can find me at www.twitter.com/chiniehdiaz  

 Getting Started on Twitter

How to Find and Follow People on Twitter

More Twitter-torials coming soon!

WebWatch: The Marketer’s Addictionary

Marketingprofs.com recently added a new section to their site called the Marketing Addictionary - and being the wordy nerd I am, I naturally fell immediately in love with it.

What on earth is an “Addictionary,” you might ask?  Marketingprofs.com’s Ann Handler explains it as “a sort of lexicon for a new generation of marketers, where users (this means you) can stake claims on new linguistic territory by creating new words to describe the world we work in.”

 Some of my favorite new words from the Addictionary include:

• “wannapreneur” - someone who claims to be an entrepreneur but doesn’t actually own any businesses
• “social notworking” - someone who fritters away their workday on Facebook or Twitter (love this! haha!)
• “disemvoweling” - the rapid disappearance of vowels in the English language due to texting and Twitter 

Check it out at  http://words.marketingprofs.com - and feel free to invent some new words of your own