How To Host Successful Twitter Community Chats: Announce and Promote Twitter Chat
In the previous article we looked at how to create with the help of the Hashtag # Twitter Chat Community, what to take into consideration when planning and how to create an event.
In this article we will look at how to announce and promote your twitter chat, running the chat, tool which could be of advantage and finally the importance of summarizing and archiving and which tools you can use.
Step #1 How To Announce and Promote Twitter Chat:
Make sure you use all available social media sites which is your blog, your network in the various social media sites, you can consider to do a press release to announce your upcoming Twitter chat. You want to reach as many people as possible and have the participants on the date and time of your event.
Remember to create a short but helpful reference page announcing when and how often your Twitter chat will take place. The more information you can provide your audience the better, for example a good explanation on how the Twitter chat with the Hashtag works, which tools participants are able to use to follow and also take part in the event. Aim to get this article on Page 1 of Google as usual for the purpose of reaching a larger audience.
Step # 2 Run Twitter Chat
Obviously the beginning will be difficult, so remember to be as authentic as possible, using your own “unique” style and approach. Here is a short checklist which you can use to build on:
a) Welcome Introduction – take a few minutes to get chat participants to introduce themselves and begin tweeting about the event
b) Like all meetings, let the participants know what the Agenda which can also be one of the ideas which the chat participants have brought up.
c) Offer the participants your own thoughts and ideas on that chosen topic
d) Allow approximately 5 minutes for the chat participants to share their ideas and choose the best topic
e) Do a summary of the important points
f) Q and A session is very important. As you have only 140 characters available you can use Q1, Q2 to signify Question 1, Question 2 etc. as this is a good reference for people to come back to
g) Allocate a session where participants and you are able to share related tools and links with the request that these should be retweeted by everybody.
h) If this is a recurring event, announce the upcoming event before concluding the event so that people are able to note the date and time
i) Remember to close by thanking everybody for taking the time to participate and also a short blog article on your website would enhance your leadership qualities.
Here are some of the tools which I have researched and found that you can provide your participants with:
- The HootSuite enables you to manage, monitor and update your Twitter accounts easily. You are able to create a new tab which you can use to track your Twitter search results. It also allows you to archive your search results which you can use for future reference.
- With the TweetDeck tool you are able to have more insight on power users at Twitter. You can download the software and by adding a new column for the hashtag results and you will desktop notifications of every new tweets.
Step # 3: How To Summarize, Archive and Analyze:
Here again there are tools available to help you to create transcripts of your tweets so that you are able to archive them. The Storify is a good alternative where you can create transcripts of your tweets because it lets you pick exactly the tweets you want to be in the transcript and add some essential context for the tweets. The other advantage of Storify is that it lets your Twitter chat users to subscribe to any new topics which you have published.
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Hi Elizabeth,
This really does look like a good idea, I loved the first post and I am going to look into this a lot more as I see massive potential here. Thank you for sharing.
Tristram Lodge
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Hi Tristram,
Absolutely and hopefully you will be taking part at the forthcoming event which I will be hosting! Thanks for leaving your valuable comments here!
Hey Elizabeth thanks for sharing this helpful info about Twitter. Just like any other social media site, using Twitter in the right way can be a great way of getting yourself out there and building your business.
Saqib Khan recently posted…Do These 3 Things To Secure Your Position As A Team Leader
Hi Saqib,
You are absolutely right! Hope to see you at our events!
Liz, I just love ‘how to’ articles. This one on how to announce and promote your Twitter chat is layed out very well. Well done.
Suzanne St.Amand recently posted…The Empower Network | Empower Your Team
Hi Suzanne,
Thanks very much Suzanne for your comments here!
Good stuff here Elizabeth. Another twitter tool for the toolbox. Let me know when you do one, I’d love to attend.
Ken recently posted…MLM Secrets-A Positive Attitude Is A Must
Hi Ken,
Absolutely right! The more tools that we are able to master, the more we are able to meet our prospects where they are and offer them solutions to their problems in the format that they want! Thanks for leaving your comments here!
Excellent check list, Elizabeth. And the tools you mentioned are so useful to be more efficient. I haven’t been on a chat in awhile. Would love to be invited to your next Tweet event.
Bonnie Chomica recently posted…7 Onpage SEO Geek Tricks to Outsmart Google
Hi Bonnie,
I will definitely invite you to the event which I will be announcing soon! Thanks very much for your valuable comments here!
Hello Elizabeth,
On twitter, I have basically not gone beyound tweeting so I find this so new but awesome! Every day comes with its opportunity to learn something new. Thank you for the great info.
Regards,
Ruthida.
Hi Ruthida,
I’m glad to see that you have found the article of value and thanks very much for leaving your comments here!
Great post and ideas. Keep me posted when you have your twitter event.
Alecia Stringer recently posted…Wealth Secrets: How Do you view Rich People
Hi Alecia,
Definitely I will be announcing the event so I’ll be very happy to see you participate and offer your expertise to the group! Thanks for leaving your valuable comments!
Hi Elizabeth,
It appears that you have this chat method well under hand. Looks like a lot of good tools to use to make the process more efficient. Well done.
BG Jenkins recently posted…Inside Scoop: NMVT
Hi BG,
I always like challenges and Twitter has been quiet a challenge that I needed to understand and master! Thanks for leaving your valuable comments here!
Hi Elizabeth, I have to say I find your Twitter posts extremely helpful. I was a bit lost when I joined this community, I didn’t quite understand the point in writing 140-character messages about mundane things, or in case of a professional account, adverts. But reading your posts about Twitter, I started to see what the purpose is in these messages and how they should be used. These community chats are already an advanced feature for me, but I want to learn how to do it in order to keep up with the times and not get lost. Things are changing so quickly in the digital world that I feel if I leave out one or two steps, I will lose touch with the trends and be like our grandparents when mobile phones and PCs appeared. I don’t want to be one of those seniors who think everything new is bad, just because I can’t use it.
Thanks for these great tutorials!
Leonard
Hi Leonard,
Thanks very much for visiting my blog and leaving your valuable comments! I’m glad that you have found value in my article and do hope to you can join our chat community on twitter where we will be sharing more tips and of course getting to build relationships and business!
Interesting tips here, I’ve been using Hootsuit to manage my tweets and updates, but hadn’t thought of summarizing, Archiving or Analyzing tweets. This is something I’ve to look into. Thanks for Sharing.
Cheers
Lucy
Hi Lucy,
Yes it amazing how networking functions that we are able to share with one another information and tips which is useful for taking our business to the next levels! Thanks for leaving your comments here!
Thanks for posting this. It is a feature of which I had never heard. Can’t be on top of all the spinning plates all the time…
PETER Pocklington recently posted…THE EQUATION OF SUCCESS
Hi Peter,
You are right! I think one needs to sieve and decide on which are the tools that they are able to master and use effectively! Thanks for leaving your comments here!
Hi Elizabeth,
Another great post here about how you can utilize twitter in your business to connect and build relationships. Awesome! Warmest Regards Shirley
Hi Shirley,
Thank you very much for your continuous support and also for our friendship!