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Twitter Chats for Fun & (Sometimes) Profit

Sheila Scarborough / @SheilaS

What We'll Talk About

Chats: the answer to I don't get Twitter

Chats for brands & businesses

Making money from chats Yay! Yuck!

Starting your own chat

Twitter is NOT about what you had for lunch

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Twitter has been around since 2005 and is no longer about what you had for lunch (unless you suck at Twitter)

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Interest-based hashtags

#eventprofs

#TBEX

#FriFotos

Finding Chats

"Gardening Twitter chat OR hashtag"

TweetReports chat list http://tweetreports.com/twitter-chat-schedule/

Chats for Brands, Industries & Associations

#TNI
Travelers' Night In

#TTOT
Travel Talk on Twitter

#tourismchat

#RTWchat

#Expediachat

#snowchat

In summer: #MTNchat

#blogchat

#builtheritage

#NSAchat

Starting Your Own Chat

Thought leadership

It's crowded out there!

Participation = ongoing battle

Starting Your Own Chat

Give it an online home

Pick a time/day that work for YOU

Pick topics for at least 8-10 chats

Twitter Chat Tools

Search.Twitter.com

Dashboards: TweetDeck, HootSuite

TweetChat for web chat streaming

Twitter Chat Tools

Smartphone apps

Transcripts: Chirpstory, Storify, TweetArchivist

Metrics: TweetReach

Photo Credits

What's for lunch (JohnSeb Flickr)

Tools (InvernoDreaming Flickr)

All other photos/screenshots are my own

Thank You!

@SheilaSSheila Scarborough Tourism Currents

@SheilaS06/01/13

06/01/13