8 Twitter Networking Tips: From Online to In-the-Flesh. More and more twitter users are actually taking their Twitter interactions and meeting up in real life. In this post Steph Auteri from Freelancedom (@stephauteri) shares some tips on how to do it. I find new excuses to create Excel worksheets. I lament the lost art of the cover letter and other forms of traditional business correspondence.
I read books such as Peter Bowerman’s The Well-Fed Writer and Allison Hemming’s Work It! , which preach against lazy, Internet-based business practices. Yet I have been thoroughly charmed by the Twitter phenomenon, and am an out-and-out evangelist in support of using it as a means to further your career. I didn’t know quite what to do with Twitter until I read a post on Problogger that advised setting Twitter goals.
Read on for tips on how to use Twitter to take networking from online to in-the-flesh. 1. Those cards I had done up at VistaPrint are so perfect. 2. 3. 4. 5. …by advertising your wares. 6. …by sending out an SOS. Custom Twitter Backgrounds: Tips for Better Readability. In this tutorial Hendry Lee from BlogBuildingU (follow him on Twitter at @hendrylee shares some tips on getting Twitter Backgrounds that are optimized for better readability.
Last time I spent some time tweaking my Twitter profile background, I didn’t change much. My goal was only to change the background and sidebar so they match my blog theme. It appeared to be easy, but there are a few tricks to make the background appears nicely. Well, at the same time it is not as difficult as some people might think as it doesn’t require any specific HTML knowledge. If you want a simple background such as my older Twitter profile (screenshot above), here’s how you do it. Create a simple background wide enough to cover most screen. That’s it.
The following screenshot shows my saved options. Taking Twitter Background to the Next Level I’m quite satisfied with my customization, but I think I could pack more details into the background. And just because I can do it, why not! Web Developer. The Drawbacks. 6 Tips for Using Your Twitter Profile to Get New Followers. Sara Rosso, digital strategist (@rosso) and Ms.
Adventures in Italy shares some tips for optimizing your Twitter profile to increase your followers. Since Twitter’s focus is on saying a lot with very little, it makes sense that the Twitter profile space is very brief and the default settings leave little room to present yourself in detail. It’s also the first and last thing potential followers will see before deciding to click “Follow” or to click away from your profile.