Posts Tagged ‘HootSuite’
So you want to Twitter more than:
“Good Morning”
“Good Night Twitterers”
“Having Coffee”
You should. That is if you want to communicate with your Tribe of people and have them LISTEN to you. If you are just twittering with a couple of friends or family then knock yourself out talk about your coffeeshop visits.
If you want to have people follow you for what you have to offer, then start sending them what they need or want to hear about. What I found is that finding stuff to talk about took A LOT of Effort and Time.
It Doesn’t need to.
Here’s What I do.
I use Google Reader and Hootsuite to manage a lot of my tweeting. There are other platforms, and I’ll get to those in another post, but for now, let’s just talk about these two.
In Google Reader I do 2 things. I follow specific blogs and I have blog searches piped into the reader.
Step 1: Follow a bunch of Blogs and put them into your reader
Step 2: Do a Google Blog search and then put the RSS feed into your reader.
Step 3: Categorize all of these “feeds” into one folder within Google Reader so you can review them all in one place.
Step 4: Review the posts that you want to tweet about and use the “Hootlet” to directly tweet from the blog post. So you would visit the blog post or web page that you are interested in and if it looks like it will be interesting to your readers then use the hootlet to schedule the tweet to your twitter account.
That’s It.
Here’s the best part. By having the Blog search set up for keywords, I can find new authors and blogs and I can then add their specific blogs to my reader for future review.
After getting this all set up, it takes me about 10 minutes a day to get a bunch of quality tweets sent into my twitter account and scheduled for the day.
Got any other ideas, then comment below.