{"id":3188,"date":"2009-04-15T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T18:44:15","slug":"video-how-to-use-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/video-how-to-use-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How To Use Twitter and Connect in the Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ddO9idmax0o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ddO9idmax0o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting more and more client calls asking about Twitter, although I tend to think most of my readers are the super social elite folks you&#8217;d find in Friendfeed. Yet, in reality, many agencies, brands, and executives are just hearing about this microblogging services from the recent media buzz.<\/p>\n<p>The above video, created by Lee and Sachi LeFever (I hung out with them in SXSW) of CommonCraft is available here on YouTube, or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncraft.com\/store\">use their license and use for internal education<\/a>.  If you&#8217;re seeking to find some of my Forrester colleagues, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/akarlin\">Alexis Karlin<\/a> in our web marketing team has an ongoing roster of <a href=\"http:\/\/forrester.com\/twitter\">Forrester employees who happen to be on Twitter<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be a client, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/znh\">Zach Hofer-Shall<\/a> and me wrote this report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/Research\/Document\/Excerpt\/0,7211,53585,00.html\">how to use Twitter based on the Groundswell objectives<\/a>, or you can catch me at these Twitter conferences: the <a href=\"http:\/\/parnassusgroup.com\/twitterconference\/\">140 Twitter conference in Mountain View<\/a> on May 26-27th, or at <a href=\"http:\/\/twtrcon.com\/\">Twtrcon in SF on May 31st<\/a>. Yes, I find it curious we have Twitter conferences, but people said the same thing about blogging conferences in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/ask-jeremiah-comprehensive-faq-guide-to-twitter\/\">first read my Twitter FAQ<\/a>.  Then if you want to connect with other folks that are readers of the Web Strategy blog, leave a comment below, then others will follow you in my community, and we can all connect.  I&#8217;ve noticed that new users have no idea what to do (empty bar syndrome) when they&#8217;re not connected with others, I hope this spurs things along for new members.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Oh yeah, this is interesting, <a href=\"http:\/\/zzzanders.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/talking-to-tyra-about-twitter.html\">I helped Tony get on the Tyra Banks TV Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m getting more and more client calls asking about Twitter, although I tend to think most of my readers are the super social elite folks you&rsquo;d find in Friendfeed. Yet, in reality, many agencies, brands, and executives are just hearing about this microblogging services from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/video-how-to-use-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: How To Use Twitter and Connect in the Comments<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,69,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-micromedia","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}