How to createa Tweetcast

Community Owner Training

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Accessing Your Admin Dashboard

Accessing Your Admin Dashboard

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After you log-into your community as the community moderator, click the “Community Activity” tab.

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Create

Two choices - choose the method you prefer

Either choose a tweet from your feed that’s related to your discussion topic to use as a reference/inspiration tweet. Then click “Turn into a discussion”.

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Simply click the “Create Discussion” button to create a discussion without a reference/inspiration tweet.

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Upload Your Content

Choose the “Tweetcast” radio button.

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Click “Create New” project and give this Tweetcast a project. Think of this as a category. For example: Marketing Topics

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Upload a photo as a thumbnail to visually promote this Tweetcast.3

Write the Tweetcast Title. For example: LIVE Tweetcast with ____ and ____ where we’ll be sharing our thoughts on ________.

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Provide a more in-depth description. Perhaps a single paragraph to help frame what will be discussed and why. Also, perhaps list out the agenda/topics, or the Q’s that will be covered.

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Optional - Add hashtags that people can voluntarily append to their tweets.

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Click “Continue” to proceed to next step.

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Upload Your Rich Media & Share/Embed Links

Click “Choose files” to start uploading jpgs, gifs, or png’s from your desktop. These are the images you plan to share LIVE during the Tweetcast broadcast.

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Paste any web share link from YouTube or Vimeo if you want to show video as a part of your Tweetcast agenda. You can even add your G+ on-air hangout link.

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All of these attachments will not be available for your guests until the LIVE event starts. Until then it’s all about setting the context for the event and building the anticipation about what will be shared and discussed.

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Preview and Publish

You’re now looking at a preview stand-by state of this page and there is one final thing to do before this page is published and available.

Simply look over your copy and attachments to make sure you have everything and there aren’t any typos. Otherwise click the grey “Edit” buttons to make any revisions to text or attachments.

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Compose a new tweet in the “Notify followers” box. This is the tweet that will go outbound to help promote this event. Leave the link as is since it’s the link your followers will need to click on to view and join the event.

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A good tweet should cover the date/time/topic and a call to action to join via the link.

*Click “Publish” to make the page available in stand-by mode. The outbound tweet will also be sent out to your followers.

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Pre-Event Tweetcast Landing Page

This page is now officially published and ready to start collecting any pre-event comments. You can use the “Promote your discussion” button to continue to publish new outbound tweets to keep promoting links to this page.

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This simply shows a standby graphic since the event is not live yet.

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You’ll also see all of your attachments queued up. You can click preview just to double check, however no other regular member/visitor sees this until you start presenting them during the live event.

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Upper right corner shows a “Go LIVE” button. DO NOT CLICK THIS UNTIL IT’S THE DAY/TIME OF THE EVENT. We typically click Go Live 5-10mins before the time of the event.

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LIVE! Tweetcast

Now that you’ve clicked “Go LIVE” the page status changed to “LIVE”, The graphic in the middle of the screen also changes so that your participants see that something is changing and starting.

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When you are ready to start Tweeting use the “Leave a comment” box and click the “Present” buttons under each attachment to broadcast each visual to every participants computer. The moment you click present, everyone’s browsers will auto update to view your visual while you are tweeting with your event attendees.

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Leave a comment box is where everyone in this chat should tweet. The link is simply there to make it easy for people throughout Twitter to discover your event by clicking the link that shows up in every tweet.

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When you are ready to adjourn your event and end the live component, simply click the “Finish and Save” button in the upper right. This will auto save this entire event and turn it into a discussion so that it can be archived. Your attachments are now available at the users leisure to view.

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Advanced Features

Use the “Quote and Edit” to RT anyone in the feed

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Feel free to click “Highlight” if one of your attendees is a special guest. Highlight feature adds a background color on their tweets so they stand out from the others.

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Optional Advanced features to use during your LIVE Tweetcast

Click the “Remove” link if anything inappropriate or offensive appears.

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How to Create a DiscussionPlease visit: n5t.co/disc

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