First of it’s kind, Twitter camp is in namma chennai. Thanks to The knowledge Foundation(TKF). “Buzz 140″ is an apt title for a one day unconference event for micro-blogging platform twitter. A must attend conference for all twitter users. lets learn more about how do you present information in just 140 characters. And how do you do that using Twitter. And also discuss various issues and developments around twitter.

Some of the topics to be discussed are,

• How can we enhance Twitter awareness?
• Twitter History and Time line
• Features of Twitter – usefulness and the way it is changing our lives
• Twitter applications and the business around them
• How should Enterprises leverage twitter?
• Famous tweets!
• Dos and Don’t s of tweeting
• Twitter wish list
• Perils and the dark side of Twitter
• Life before and after Twitter
• Beyond Twitter – what are we looking at?
• Is Twitter just a fad?
• Twitter projects
• Twitter in other languages
• Twitter on the Hand Held – Pain & Pleasure
• Twitter Connect – Unravel the nuances
• Importance of having Corporate policy guidelines for Social media behavior
• Twitter as a Social media Lead channel for Corporate Sales
• Twitter and Real Time Search – Where are we heading to?
• Open discussion, and next twitter camp, what we can do from here on…

When ? and Where ?

Event is scheduled on Sunday the 21st June 2009 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

at Photon Infotech Private Ltd. No. 2/102, Photon Towers, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Karapakkam, Chennai, India

As usual anything and everything related to web2.0 will have hexahost participation. Meet you at the conference, oops ..  unconference

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Twitter can be a very effective tool to promote your blogs. Most of the Inherent characteristics of twitter  has the potential to ease blog promotion. 140 characters of crisp introduction to your blog along with links to your blog post is the base for effective and efficient blog promotion using twitter. Your followers in twitter are the targeted reader, a link to your blog along with post title is the route. so the first and foremost step is to get associated with your targeted audience i.e getting followers. In twitterism “Following is the way to get followers”. Having a clear strategy is the easiest way to success.  A unfocused, and scattered tweets can not fetch useful result. pen down your strategy first.

Give confidence to your followers, Base line to keep your followers

“Follow me .. I think i know where i am going”

Feel free to increase your following,

In My view “A good twitter will have more following than a followers”

Well know blogger Blog Bloke’s view,

Twitter is more of a social “chat” tool than real blogging. But regardless of what definition you want to give it, it is indeed a boon to business and it will only get better.

Here comes 8 valuable tips from a well known blogger Blog Bloke,

1. First of all, more blogs today are getting rid of blogrolls. They are considered old school and going the way of the dinosaur.
2. Twitter is designed for short, burst announcements to communicate with your followers, grab their attention and to build relationships. But it is NOT a replacement for blogs.
3. Your blog is your most important tool in your Web 2.0 arsenal. You should think of it as being concentric to your overall social media marketing strategy (Twitter or any other Social Networking site) for leveraging your followers over to your blog.
4. Heck, Twitter (like all social networking sites) doesn’t even offer you a top-level domain. Might as well just stay on Blogspot — right? (NOT).
5. Twitter is quickly becoming a search engine in its own right for finding more fodder to write on your BLOG.
6. If you are a marketer trying to make money you will want your Twitter followers to visit your blog and click on your ads.
7. Like I said before, as a communication tool Twitter is still rudimentary and needs a lot of work. It is more efficient to conduct a discussion on your blog comments section than it is to follow a conversation on Twitter. (Especially with all of the third party plugins and scripts that are now available).
8. Ultimately your blog is where you want the action to be. You want your readers to follow you over to your real blog on your own domain and a site that belongs to YOU.

Source Post:  http://www.blogbloke.com/twitter-tips-promote-blog-traffic/

Few Good post to read about twitter,

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/twitterism-effective-usage-of-twitter/

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/a-must-know-for-bloggers-twitter/

http://twittertips.org/

http://www.twitip.com/13-twitter-tips-and-tutorials-for-beginners/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/how-to-use-twitter-tips-for-bloggers/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/35-twitter-tips-from-35-twitter-users/

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Twitter, A 140 characters length rope that connects the users with rest of the world is one of the most effective ways to interact in web 2.0. Twitterism quite popular term used to describe your behaviour based on your tweets conveys who you are. Effective twitterism reflects in effective and efficient usage on twitter or tweets. Following steps will guide you to provide better tweets.

1. Listen to your followers - A baseline of twitter is to follow tweets which you like and allow users to follow you. Most of the time a follower may not know who you are. He decides to follow you because he thinks your tweets will be interesting and useful to him. Greet every followers and give a short not about what ou do in twitter. If you are not specific about what you will tweet never mind. Even a simple Hi! will make a big difference. Automating this with a plugin is also a good idea. If your idea to start tweet is to create a brand concentrate on your followers a bit more.
2. Optimize your Tweets – Web2.0 has many inventions to help you. Really big URLs can be converted to small few characters length using tiny url, tinytw.it, sturly and etc. Since twitter is a short message service short codes like msg, 2, 4m, &, y,s  and etc helps to optimaly use 140 characters. In brand building or web site promotion do not use short url,
3. @reply - One of the most specific way of addressing your tweet to concerned user. Be crisp with your @ reply. Best twitterism should have more of @ tweets. check your own @reply’s track the users, address their specific queries. Be loyal to the own who used @username with your service.
4. Twitter background – To create a best impression on your readers an effective twitter background is mandatory. It helps you to announce to the viewers about who you are. Keep your brand identity elements intact.
5. Retweet relevant content – your tweets should have a flow similar to the way you maintain flow in writing passages. Effective tweets should enable readers to look for retweets. keep some questions, opinions open for the readers to answer and retweet.

Effective usage of twitter should talk about some more tools and features. This blog limited to keepina manaerism twitterism in your tweets. Much more to be followed in later posts.

HAPPY TWEETING!

Relevant Contents:

http://www.tweeterblog.com/

http://www.blogbloke.com/favorite-twitterisms/

http://thoughtsprevail.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-use-twitter-effectively.html

https://m.twitter.com/tweeterism

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WordPress popular, simple and no doubt the best weblog platform, has many plug-ins for better twittering. Plugins are add-ons to your blogging applications they let you customize the look and feel of your Blog. Plugins can extend wordpress to do almost everything you imagine. The simplicity of installation with WordPress 2.7 versions has increased more plugin usage. Over 42oo plugins are released to wordpress users. Few advices to choose valid plugins are,

1. Keep track of how many people have downloaded it.
2. Read the comments given by users
3. Consider the rating of the plugin to identify the user friendliness and usage
4. Read the authors comments

 As a blogger you wanted to do few things, firstly you wanted to update to your social networking group that “you have written a blog on xyz and this is a link”  i.e update whenever a new post is created in your blog. Secondly,  you want your readers to update in their tweets about what you have written i.e Visitors should be allowed to tweet about your post. Thirdly, Update your visitors with your latest tweets. finally, you wanted your user comments to be updated in your twitter page. To accomplish all this you need few twitter plug-ins.

Tweet me -  Automatic tweet whenever you publish a post

Tweet this – Links every posts in your blog, Users can tweet about your post and link through this

Add Twitter RSS -  Adds twitter rss to the Header of your blog

Tweet stats – Recently tweeted posts widget  to your site.

Twitter digest – A daily post containing tweets from twitter account

Twitter Friends widget – displays twitter friends in your sidebar in the same way as your twitter home page

Twitter plugins are not limited to the above list. Many more plugins can be tested and used for better twitter and wordpress integration.

HAPPY TWEETING! & HAPPY BLOGGING!

Understand the importance of social media in blogging,

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Twitter, the addictive message service that connects the world of users with 140 character at a time.  Thanks to the superb minds behind twitter the likes of Evan Williams for helping us to answer the question what are you doing? Twitter has become a vital connector for people and communities.  In fact it helps companies to update their status to the intended audiences.  In comparison with the legacy branding utilities tweeter helps you to choose and control your listeners, their home page is loaded with your tweets along with list of other tweets they follow.

Some of the user comments about tweeter and it is usage are,
Nicole Ahn

Twitter definitely is a great example of websites going further than what is available. Twitter proves to be beyond just a status update website, but more of a community of users who are informing one another of what is going on around them. It’s amazing to see networking among people, twitter working within the society, and the public being affected by what goes on on the internet.

Michele Lorito-Chase

To catch a glimpse of shared knowledge at one’s own speed, to share knowledge with those who desire to obtain it, a platform that facilitates collaborative thinking for creative genius, for brands to give without a price tag, to build an unprecedented global network to share with and grow-Evan Williams is a pioneer who’s contribution will open up different territories for even greater contributions.

Husnia Karimi

i do think the same that Twitter is one of many social media tools what i think that some of us using it as a fun tool and some using it as a connecting with each other, in the end of the day is the way you are useing this tool.

Hence proved, A powerful tool to update your status, your post, your thought, your feel, your understanding, your xyz. Twitter proved to be a powerful tool for bloggers. Usage of Tweet me, Tweet this plug-ins with wordpress helps you to update yous post publishes to twitter and hence to all you followers. It works as a SEO tool too. It works as a ping tool too, but only your followers are updated.
Extracting the full usage of twitter involves few easy to follow step by step approach. Come back here to get more guidelines on twitter.

1. Choosing a right Twitter template
2. How to design your Twitter background image
3. How to use plug-ins like tweet this, tweet me with your Blogs
4. Enhancement for your Blog
5. Enhancement for your brand identity
6. Following, Follower strategy
7. Use of Social monitoring tools for your tweets
8. Monitoring your twitter behavior

Follow up for contents on these area.

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