1. CF-LINKS Pumping Up Your Twitter Feed Anne-Marie McElrone & Marlowe Filippov, CFC’s IT Steering Committee

2. Agenda Introducing Hootsuite! -Scheduling your tweets -Creating lists -Statistics -Managing multiple accounts How to: -Build your Twitter feed -Use hashtags, live tweeting, theme days

3. Hootsuite Free, web-based Manages one+ Twitter feeds Uses columns to help sort, prioritize Shrinks URLs while U wait Can schedule your tweets!! Provides stats Similar tools: TweetDeck, CoTweet

4. Hootsuite - Cons Not easy to add followers Lose track of followers not in lists Facebook posts not user friendly

5. Tracking your stats Statistics are tracked using ow.ly Track the full life cycle of tweets!

6. Interpreting the stats Daily stats graph Region Graph Top Referrers

7. Hits and misses Using your Most Popular Messages Individual messages

8. Building your team Adding members Why have a team?

9. Pumping up your feed Listen: –Watch what people retweet –What are your followers tweeting? –Search topics you’re passionate about for followers and info to share Engage –Ask questions –Make comments –Add value

10. Building your online community Listen first

11. Pumping up your feed Increase your number of followers –Visit other orgs & their lists –We Follow –Just Tweet It

14. Hash Tags What is a Hash Tag? “I’m really looking forward to the 2010 #VitalSigns !” #VitalSigns Live Tweeting Trending Topics

15. Pumping up your feed Theme Days #musicmonday #techtuesday #charitytuesday #woofwednesday #thankfulthursday #followfriday