From "Lightning Strikes Thrice" Jan 20, 2011 (http://www.stc-carolina.org/Lightning+Strikes+Thrice). Peggy Harvey of the Carolina Chapter will describe how she used Twitter as a tech comm graduate student to expand her horizons and become part of the tech comm community.

1. Using Twitter to Achieve Tech Comm Fame and Fortune Peggy Harvey STC Carolina Chapter

2. My History with Social Media Avoided it like the plague Started a personal blog in June, 2009 Took the class “Social Media in Public Relations” in Fall, 2009 Now use Twitter and have a personal-professional bloghttp://connectingtocontent.com/ Still won’t touch Facebook

3. Getting Started with Twitter Go to http://twitter.com and sign up Build your Twitter community Follow people you know See who they’re following and follow them

4. Getting Involved with the Community Followed RJ Jacquez (@rjacquez) Participated in his eSeminar Twitter 101 for Technical Communicatorshttp://rjacquez.com/twitter_for_technical_communic/ Asked RJ a question about screenshots

5. Getting Involved (continued) Tweeted about a presentation I did for class that talked about Adobe Community Help RJ commented on and retweeted my tweets Got to know RJ through Twitter RJ asked me to do an interview on Adobe Community Help for his blog For a while the interview was Google’s #2 search result on my namehttp://rjacquez.com/interview-with-peggy-harvey-the-future-of-documentation-adobe-community-help/

6. Twitter and the STC Summit Twitter reigned at the 2010 STC Summit in Dallas Tweeting during sessions Twitter was used to connect with people on-site A large screen displayed all tweets on the #stc10 hastag Found out I won an iPad from WebWorks via Twitter

7. Twitter Tips Do: Create a short username Good: @arh (Alan Houser) Bad: @PMJaniszewski (Peter Janiszewski) Include a profile picture and bio Listen before you jump in Learn the terminology: @, DM, RT, URL shortening, etc. Jump in! Be courteous Be patient Use Twitter as part of a broader networking strategy

8. Twitter Tips (continued) Don’t Make Twitter a monologue Block your tweets Use profanity Put down your employer Tweet anything you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of a newspaper Tweet useless information (unless that’s the image you want to portray)

9. Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/