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There have been a number of teaching resources to help people learn about Twitter lately – one of which is The Backstage Pass to Twitter Success by Laura Roeder. I’ve heard a few people say that they found Laura’s training helpful so I asked one of them – Dave Navarro from The Launch Coach – if he’d be willing to write a review of it. Here’s what he came back with.

I’ll be honest – I’ve been on Twitter longer than Laura Roeder has (well, only three weeks longer, but still, I have to claim what I can). But there’s one big difference between how the last 12 months have played out for the both of us. While I have a healthy enough Twitter following – almost 1.5 followers per person I follow – Laura has a staggering 8 followers per person she follows.

Clearly, Laura knows something I don’t. Maybe a whole lot of somethings. So when she launched her “Backstage Pass to Twitter” webinar a few weeks ago, I had to take a look … and here’s my review.
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by Chris Allison (@Chris_Allison) CMO of Centsports.

It sounds a bit funny to discuss Twitter as the hive mind when so few are tapping into the potential of communal thought, but I wager this audience is pushing their use of technology more than the average early adopter. I’m also assuming in this post that you’ve recognized the potential that we have to connect, create, store, and retrieve data using Twitter’s search function. If you haven’t, you may want to read my post here on Twitip about searching Twitter – it’s a good introduction. There are lots of awesome ways you can search through the conversation on Twitter. You can find people that are tweeting from certain locations, about certain subjects, or at certain times. However, this ability is being threatened. I’m now calling upon the 7,000 of you who subscribe to this blog to help us all in a valiant cause.
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by Ryan Miller – Follow him @ryancmiller

With Twitter being the big buzz word all over the MSM, blogs and just about everywhere you look, it seems like everyone is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon.  And that’s not a bad thing at all.  But most people don’t know how to ‘use’ it or don’t understand how it can be a great tool meet new people, manage lots of conversations, track buzz, and help your business.  While there’s no one RIGHT WAY to use Twitter, the ‘What Are You Doing’ moniker is just the tip of the iceberg.  Here’s 10 ways to Be Useful on Twitter: (more…)

by Sean Platt from Ghostwriter Dad and Collective Inkwell. Follow him @writerdad.

For the first few months after I’d signed up for my Twitter account, it sat there doing little outside taunting me with what I didn’t know and was not yet ready to learn.

It was the newest of the new; the styrofoam peanuts still sticking to the blue bird’s feathers. I’d heard how amazing Twitter was; a shot of adrenaline to socializing, marketing and a dozen other ings all singing in unison.

But I didn’t get it.

Every time I loaded the web page I felt like a million minutes were melting from my day. How could anyone pull value from such an incessant stream of data? How was advantage sifted and filtered? An concept founded on fast moving information, slung across an interface filled with molasses only seemed to underscore one essential truth:

When I was on Twitter, I wasn’t working.

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by Skellie from Skelliewag. Follow her @skellie.

How often have you heard the argument that not following back everyone who follows you is ’snobby’ and ‘arrogant’?

(It’s not, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you so. You have a right to choose who you follow and don’t follow.)

Following everyone back has other benefits, though – and this is coming from someone who used to be a die-hard proponent of only following a smaller group of people who you know and admire.

Following everyone back helps you to create stronger relationships with the people who care about what you do online. Any marketer will tell you that relationships are the key to success. Even if you’re just using Twitter for the fun of it, relationships and getting to know fantastic people are what makes it rewarding.

But what if you don’t want to miss out on tweets from your favorite Twitter users?

In this post, I’m going to show you how to have your cake and eat it too. You can follow everyone while still keeping close tabs on your favorite Twitter users.

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by Fredrickus Williford of Doctor Twitter. Follow him @BlackMediaProp

Many people think custom twitter backgrounds or themes with anything other than their business network profile and personal site links are not for the tech/business folks or only for the teenie-bopper Myspace crowd. I say it couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s 6 reasons why all Twitip readers should dispose of those generic Twitter backgrounds today! Why? Because you could start gaining more followers by connecting with your target audience and relating to your peers.

1.Identifying mutual interest in tastes and preferences. For example you may be one of the many Twitter Fail Whale fans or are interested in the TV show “Lost”. Guess what, there’s a background for that. Why wouldn’t you follow somebody with similar likes and interest? Isn’t that how we make friends in the real world? Twitter is no different.

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by Anthony Crognale – Follow him @pluble.

One of the most exciting features of Twitter is the ability to be able to search every possible tweet in the public timeline and be shown while you’re searching if a new tweet comes through. Now most Twitter users wouldn’t think that being able to search Twitter updates is a very needed or even useful function. For the business or professional user, this tool can be essential. Why is it so essential you might ask? Because the opportunities are endless. Let me run some through for you:

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by Senthil Nambi. Follow him @senthilnambi.

Celebrity

Be it a movie star, musician, CEO of a failing company, a comedian or that dude that married Demi Moore. They follow literally a handful of people, but have thousands of females following. In the case of Kevin Rose, there seems to be thousands and thousands of males following. (Say man crush three times in a row really fast!)

They will most likely not reply to your comment, although eagerly you might wait, hitting the refresh button every other second, only to curl up in a ball and cry yourself to sleep that night. Though their tweets are as mundane as “Taking a nap,” their hardcore followers still manage to reply to it with great enthusiasm. Examples: “Naps are great,” “Good Job,” “I love you Stephen Colbert.” Okay the last one was mine. Thinking back, maybe that’s the reason Levar Burton didn’t reply to my tweet.

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by Scott Williams of Big Is The New Small. Follow him @ScottWilliams.

If you search the Twitter world you will find Tweeps with a plethora of different Twitter @names; many which are totally unrelated to the Twitterer’s real name.  No matter whether your Twitter account is a business account, personal account or brand account; you should definitely use your real name, real business name or real brand name as your Twitter @name.

10 Reasons Why You Should Use Your Real Name On Twitter:

1.  It will be simple and easy to locate you in the “Find People” search tool on Twitter homepage; Remember “KISS” – Keep It Simple Stupid.

2.  Similar to the dot.com boom, you don’t want to miss the squatters right to your entitled property, I mean your entitled Twitter name.

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Isn’t branding for companies or products? Why would anyone want a personal brand anyway?

Nowadays people prefer to connect with other people rather than with a corporate brand. Whether you are a company or individual, branding is a way to make yourself memorable.

Yes, personal branding is about making yourself memorable.

Examples of Personal Brand

Donald Trump is known as a dealmaker. That is his brand. As someone who knows Mr. Trump only from television — in The Apprentice TV series — I also tend to think of “Trump” as quality and luxury.

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