It's no secret that I have a bit of a love for Twitter. It hasn't always been that way but I've written about the fun of Twitter and how to fall in love with Twitter again and I have been using it more and more over the last few months, again. So I have a more bite-sized suggestion this …
How to fall in love with Twitter again (aka how to use Twitter right, IMHO)
Twitter and I have an on-again, off-again kind of relationship. It took me quite a while to learn to like Twitter in the first place - I was "forced" to use it, initially, by a travel website I was working for! - and I still have waves of love and not-so-much-love for it. Just over a year ago I …
What I learnt from running my first Twitter chat or Tweet-up
Last week we held the first WABAK Twitter chat - to help a bunch of mostly former blogging students get the hang of using Twitter, and as a substitute for a face-to-face meet up this month.Let me tell you, hosting a Twitter chat or Tweet-up is SO much fun but much more exhausting than I'd imagined! …
How hashtags make me happy (and how and why you can use hashtags)
What on earth is a hashtag?If you've been wanting to ask me this question, you are definitely not alone.Let's start off with the basics. A hashtag is like a topic marker, a way to describe in a word or short phrase what the topic of your post is about. And the point of using a hashtag is that people …
The fun of Twitter and my own Twitter renaissance
I first signed up to Twitter in March 2008. Like many social media sites, I think I just signed up because I thought I should, long before I knew if it would prove useful or whether I would even enjoy using it. (By the way, you can quickly find out how long you've been on Twitter by checking at the …