Category Archives: Twitter

Twitter 210: Vanity URL Shortening

By Lee Aase | Published: January 3, 2011
In Social Media 110, I highlighted 7 services for shrinking URLs as a way to pack more information into the 140 characters Twitter allows. After all, if you can compress a 90-character URL into 20 characters or fewer when sharing a link, that leaves you more space to provide information on what people will see [...]
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Twitter 140: Explaining Twitter to Your Parents (and Kids)

By Lee Aase | Published: January 1, 2011
I ran across an excellent overview of Twitter yesterday, via Mashable. Jessica Hische does a great job outlining who sees what when you post to Twitter, reply, retweet or use #hashtags, and also highlights some important differences between Facebook and Twitter. As Jessica indicates, her guide isn’t just for moms, because the misunderstandings about Twitter [...]
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Behold The Power of Twitter

By Lee Aase | Published: December 16, 2010
At noon today, I had an opportunity to conduct a Twitter training class for physicians from one of our clinical departments at Mayo Clinic. I wanted to show them the reach and speed of Twitter, and how it can spread messages widely and quickly. So, at 12:28, I put out this tweet to my Twitter [...]
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More Good Reasons to Not Protect Your Tweets

By Lee Aase | Published: August 9, 2010
For the background on the slide deck below, check out Twitter 135: 10 Reasons to NOT Protect Your Tweets. After our interaction described above, which brought Lisa Fields (@PracticalWisdom) to the point of open tweeting, she was inspired to use her presentation design skills to turn my blog post into a set of slides, which [...]
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Twitter 135: 10 Reasons to NOT Protect Your Tweets

By Lee Aase | Published: June 5, 2010
Note: This is part of the Twitter curriculum on SMUG. In the last week or so I’ve had some great interactions with Lisa Fields (@PracticalWisdom on Twitter.) She gave me the heads up about Marc Slavin, the hospital PR guy who ignored a reporter’s repeated requests to “stop touching me!” as described in my recent [...]
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