tips to create a twitter chat
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Travel & Tourism pros are embracing the power of Twitter Chats. Here are tips to participate, moderate and start your own Twitter Chat.TRANSCRIPT
Catherine J. Heeg
Customized Management Solutions Phone: 403 726 0171 Fax: 403 726 0371 [email protected]
www.cmsspeaking.com
Tips to Create Twitter Chats
What’s this? Twitter Chats are a way to engage in a written conversation using Twitter and
connecting with people from around the world.
Wouldn’t you love to connect with clients and potential clients creatively and effectively?
Successful Twitter chat Checklist
As Moderator
o Set a theme for your ongoing chats
o Determine the length and day of your ongoing chat
o Set a start and stop time
o Create a title for each of your chat sessions
o Create a unique # that’s easy to type and related to your theme
Keep the same # for the ongoing series of chats
o As the moderator you may want to start a separate twitter account so that other
moderators can take control over time.
o Compose a series of questions to stimulate conversation
You may wish to start with an introduction and then ask people to
introduce themselves.
Prepare questions and relevant links in advance
For a 1 hour chat about 10 questions works great.
o Begin each question with Q (for question) and then question number. For
example, Q1 for your first question, Q2 for the second question
o Advise participants to answer using A1 for their answer to the first question, etc.
o Market the chat
Directly invite people to join
Market thru your other social sites
Set up a new Facebook page and create events for each Twitter chat
o Maintain a fun conversational style that encourages sharing and conversation in
140 characters
o As the moderator, sometimes called the bot, try to remain neutral.
You may want to participate on your personal twitter feed.
Catherine J. Heeg
Customized Management Solutions Phone: 403 726 0171 Fax: 403 726 0371 [email protected]
www.cmsspeaking.com
As a participant
o Sign in to your Twitter account and search the # for the chat
Use the Twitter search bar and type in the # provided by the moderator
o If you’re new to the chat you may want to include this info in your introduction
o Watch for the questions from the moderator
Remember there is no audio
o Answer using A1 for your answer to the first question
o Provide links to material to support your answers
o Keep in mind that your answers, including any links, must be 140 characters or
less
o Follow other chat participants if you’d like
o Keep conversations to the moderated questions.
Side conversations can be distracting and may be better in a direct
message
o Re-tweet or favorite tweets that you find remarkable
o If you participate in numerous chats, you may want to warn your followers so that
they’re not overwhelmed with your twitter stream.
o If you believe your followers would be interested in the twitter chat content you
may want to invite them to join.
o Remember all tweets are public, unless you direct message someone.
Here are a few chats that may be of interest:
o #smbiz: A chat where small business owners can get answers from experts and
other SMB owners. Takes place every Tuesday from 8 to 9pm. o #blogchat: Offers advice on how to better your blog. Takes place on Sunday
nights from 8 to 9pm CT. o http://tweetreports.com/twitter-chat-schedule/ provides a list of chats by topic. o Check out these industry related chats.
http://thetravelbite.com/travelchatsontwitter/