Twitter chat planning checklist from moflow.ca

First, you must plan your overall Twitter chat approach based on what you would like to make possible for your community. Once you’ve done this planning and have selected a hashtag, this checklist will help you to make individual chats run smoothly!

! Select date and time

! Research and select topic

! Blog about topic and post to chat home base

! Invite attendees ! Reach out to individual participants via email, Twitter Direct Message and @

mentions

! Email your newsletter subscribers

! Plan, write and schedule promotional tweets

! Promote on other social networks, including in relevant groups

! Pre-write chat questions and tweets Include:

! Welcome tweet

! Introductions request

! Housekeeping: i.e. character limit reminder, Q & A format

! Questions #1-5

! Closing tweet

! Reminder to check back for archives

! Save the date/time for next chat