Basic How-To instructions and some tweet chat basics

1. Inaugural Family Medicine Tweetchat#FamMedChat Thursday 4/21/2011 9p EST

2. Credit Christian Sinclair MD (@ctsinclair) founder of #hpmtweetchat (9PM EST, Wenesdays), who graciously allowed me to minimally modify this presentation from his original!

3. HOW Go to: http://tweetchat.com/room/fammedchat Login on Twitter if you have an account Watch everyone chat Chime in when you want Retweet the smart stuff #fammedchatis added to each tweet at the end via Tweetchat

4. Type your Tweet here RT = Re-tweet #hpm automatically added Lots o’ links! Quick Use Buttons Reply Your own tweet Re-Tweet Feature/Block Someone replying to you Favorite Tweet

5. Visual Example of a Tweetchat Tweetchat

6. Tweetchat Group of people begin to have a conversation around a single hashtag

7. Using Tweetchat they can all see the same thread Tweetchat

8. All the people following the individuals see only a few tweets with #hpm Tweetchat

9. Tweetchat

10. Tweetchat

11. Tweetchat Passed on to 2,838 followers

12. Quick Tweetchat Tips Re-tweet good posts – Sign of endorsement Re-tweet and comment – Conversation starter Reply if you want more info Follow people you find interesting Tweet them once or twice during the week

13. So why is something like this important? A Tweetchat: creates content that might spread lures other people into the conversation places you on the map connects people increases your sphere of influence exposes you to new ideas and resources is a place to get questions answered