All about Twitter chats for communications professionals, from a webinar for the AWC (Association for Women in Communications.) Finding chats, participating in chats and starting one of your own. Includes recommended chats for communicators.
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Best Hour of Learning You'll Ever Spend: Twitter Chats
1. Best Hour of Learning?
Twitter Chats!
Sheila Scarborough
AWC National Board of Directors
Founder, #awcchat & @SheilaS on Twitter
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
2. What We'll Cover
● What IS a chat? A few Twitter basics
● Finding Twitter chats for
communications professionals
● How to participate in a chat
● Starting a Twitter chat yourself
● Q & A at the end
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
3. Twitter ….
Not about
what you had
for lunch
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
14. Twitter Chat Basics
● Most chats last one hour (goes by fast!)
● Consistent time & day
● Most have a series of discussion items:
host tweets have Q1, Q2, etc.
● Answer tweets usually have A1, A2, etc.
● Host has associated chat blog, Facebook
Page or website
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
16. Finding relevant chats
● Do a search string
● "Gardening + chat OR hashtag"
● "Birding Twitter chat"
● "Muscle car chat on Twitter"
● There used to be a big Google Doc
with chat info, but appears defunct
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
23. Getting Started on Twitter
● Open a Twitter account
● Thoroughly fill out your profile/bio
● Do link to your
website/blog/something
● Have a photo – no one trusts the
Egg People!
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
26. Chat Etiquette
● Lurking is fine at first
● Contributions & participation are MUCH
appreciated by chat hosts
● Stay on topic
● Don't be all about you & your links
● Help bring people to the chat & later, to
the transcript
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
28. Twitter Chat Tools
● Twitter Search: search.twitter.com
● Dashboards like TweetDeck &
HootSuite
● TweetChat: tweetchat.com/@TweetChat
● Twitter smartphone apps
● Transcript tools like Chirpstory (demo
later of AWCchat's channel)
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
29. Starting Your Own Chat
● Thought leadership
● It's crowded out there!
● Give it a home (website, blog like
awcchat.wordpress.com, Facebook
Page)
● Pick a time that works for you
● Pick topics for at least 8 – 10 chats
● Participation can be tough nut
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
30. Photo Credits
● What's for lunch ● Two-rocket launch
(JohnSeb Flickr) (jurvetson Flickr)
● Chats on anything ● Tools
(Colorful pencils via (InvernoDreaming
Rilind Hoxha Flickr) Flickr)
● Sheila & phone
(courtesy Hawaii Social
Media Summit & Justin
R. Dotson on Facebook)
@SheilaS
@AWCchat
Insert photo here to emphasize Power Hour aspect of chats, or a great sandwich photo Twitter has been around since 2005 and is no longer about what you had for lunch (unless you suck at Twitter)
Not case-sensitive
Anyone can create a hashtag. Anyone can start a scheduled chat. Do a search first, though, to confirm that someone isn't already using that hashtag