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By: Heather Marsten

Heather Marsten — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:08:42 +0000

Thanks for this post, I’m Twitter challenged.

Have a blessed day.

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Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:11:54 +0000

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Taking on the World; World Scores « Eden's Garden of Delights — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:22:00 +0000

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By: Rashda/Mina Khan (@SpiceBites)

Rashda/Mina Khan (@SpiceBites) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:51:14 +0000

Okay, I thought I knew hashtags, but still learned new tips…thanks!

By: Author Kristen Lamb

Author Kristen Lamb — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:55:22 +0000

In reply to PW Creighton.

Yes, but without TweetDeck, Twitter is frustrating and unmanageable. I, myself, hated Twitter until a colleague introduced me to TweetDeck. Once I used this application, I finally see what was happening in context–so I could actually SEE how the platform behaved. I have taught this way for three years and have had tremendous success.

Tweet Deck allows people to see the big picture, so I have to disagree. I think new people need to lose the water wings and just jump in. That is why I started #MyWANA, so newbies could watch and learn and would have a dedicated community of support to help them ramp up to speed. But, without Tweet Deck, a newbie couldn’t get the bird’s eye perspective to see how things work.

Also, platforms continually change. The Twitter of today will not be the Twitter of six months from now. Slow and steady can just make us road kill on the digital highway. We jump in, we make oopses, we learn and we grow.

By: PW Creighton

PW Creighton — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:49:09 +0000

Excellent advice as always Kristen but I really wouldn’t suggest using external tools like tweetdeck or hootsuite to a new twitter user until they had spent a few months understanding and using the platform. It’s hard to appreciate and understand the benefits of external tools when you don’t know how the platform behaves.

By: Be a Tweep, Not a Tool Part 2–Beware the #FF Fire Hose « Kristen Lamb's Blog

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:11:15 +0000

[…] ways we create to connect that, if not handled properly, can do more harm than good. Last week, in Be a Tweep, Not a Tool–How Hashtags (#) Can Win Friends and Influence Enemies, I explained what that # thingy is, what it does and how it can get us digitally tarred and […]

By: Cate Dean

Cate Dean — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:12:38 +0000

Thank you for the clear, concise explanation of hashtags – and the ways to avoid abusing them! I am just now using them in my tweets, and I love the back and forth with fellow writers from around the world.

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