Tweeting at C.A.S.E 2014? Take a look at our Twitter Survival Guide

The conference is only a few days away. 

To all those heading to Adelaide for the conference – we want to see you tweeting!

Twitter skills a bit rusty? Here’s our twitter survival guide!

Be sure to also follow ALLA NSW’s @OurGirlInAdel!

ALLA 2013 according to Twitter

For everyone who went to the conference and everyone followed the action online we have collected all the conference tweets for you!

Click on the below links to see the collections from each day of the conference

Day 0 – Pre-conference workshops, library tours and social media panel
http://t.co/5K5EZkeLwo

Day 1 – Speakers, Panels and Conference Dinner

http://t.co/S60pYleiai

Day 2 – Speakers, 10×10, Knowledge Cafe

http://t.co/Ij3BC6qcUx

Posted: 27 September 2013

#getyourtweetsout - What happened at the workshop

Thanks to everyone who came to the Twitter workshop as well as a special thanks to my co-presenters, Larissa Reid (@larissa_reid), Sherry Sarmiento (@sherrysarmiento) and Alicia Cohen (@Alicia_Cohen). 

For those who missed our discussion on twitter you can see our Storify at sfy.co/hQTg . Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Below is an overview of what we covered in the session.

Communicating in 140 characters or less

When faced with only 140 characters it can be difficult to get your point across to your followers. There are however some key tricks:

• Release your inner journalist
  The first sentence of a newspaper article provides an overview of the primary point of the article so release your inner journalist, get rid of all the unnecessary words and get tweeting!
• Your characters are precious so shorten your links!
  If your sharing a link be sure to use a link generator to get your links to keep as many of your characters as possible. TinyUrl (http://tinyurl.com/) and  Bitly (https://bitly.com/) are two popular link shorteners.
• Use hashtags..but not too much
  Hashtags can be a quick an effective way to convey emotion or tone quickly and character-efficiently to your followers.

Favourite, Retweet or Quote?

What are they and when do you do it?

• Favourite – Similar to a ‘like’ on Facebook, you Favourite someones tweet when you want to show approval but don’t necessarily want to share the tweet with your followers
• Retweet – Share the entirety of someone’s tweet with your followers. 
• Quote – Sharing someone’s tweet with your followers and comment upon it. The tweet will appear in quotation marks ” “. You can include your comment at the beginning or the end of the quoted tweet.
  If you run out of characters when you are quoting the tweet it is okay to shorten the tweet. However when you do, be sure to put MT in the tweet to show that it is a modified tweet.

#Hashtags – The serious and the sarcastic

Hashtags are used for a number of reasons:

• To join the discussion
  They can be used to group tweets together for an event (#getyourtweetsout) or to contribute to discussion on a particular topic, for example #auspol if you wanted to contribute to the discussion about Australian politics on twitter.
  When you have a hashtag in your tweet your followers can select the hashtag an see all the other discussion that has occurred with that hashtag. 
• Convey emotion
  #happy365 #mondays #confused #grr #nerdy
  Hashtags are a quick and easy way to convey emotion in your followers.

Managing the feed monster with lists OR separating your ‘lives’ with lists

Twitter is used for multiple purposes… well, pretty much everything. As a consequence it is often difficult to sort through all the different people and organisations you follow to make sure that you don’t miss anything. Lists can help you do this! Sorting the people you follow into lists you can get a quick overview of your library/professional feed, your book/reading feed, your news feed and whatever other list you want to create. Creating a list is easy. The toughest question you need to ask yourself if whether you want your list to be public or private.

Follow the below steps to create a list. Please note that these instructions are for making a list when you access twitter from your internet browser, if you use an app (tweetdeck, hootsuite etc) the process may be different:

Step 1: Go to your profile and select the lists tab

Step 2: Select create profile

Step 3: Customise your list. When selecting whether your list is public or private the key difference between the two is that with a public list the people you put in there will be notified that they have been added to your list and other people are able to view and subscribe to your list.

Step 4: Add people to your list by going to their profile and selecting the drop down menu and add to list

Step 5: Enjoy an organised twitter feed!

Direct communication

On twitter, you don’t always have to broadcast what you want to say to the whole twittersphere, you can contact a single individual.

You can do this by selecting from the interaction options on the persons profile, see above image. If you do want to share what you say to one person with your followers simply put a full stop at the start of the tweet. This will prevent Twitter recognising your tweet as a direct message and the tweet will appear in the feeds of everyone who follows you. Alternatively, if you put a person's twitter handle anywhere in a tweet they will receive a notification.

Taking photos

A picture can say 1000 words. Twitter allows you to share pictures with the twittersphere. Simply select the camera icon when you compose a tweet and it will be shared with your followers as an image.

That’s the end of our Twitter 101. If you do have any questions, put them in the comments and we will help

Also now that your a twitter expert don’t forget to register to be a guest tweeter at the ALLA 13! Contact Karen Rowe-Nurse on nsw.president@alla.asn.au to register to tweet at a session

Happy Tweeting!

Alex Cato (@curious_meow)

NSW News, Web and Social Media Co-ordinator

Posted: 2 September 2013

#getyourtweetsout! Twitter Workshop Toolkit

 In preparation for the Twitter workshop on 28 August 2013 (tomorrow :P) be sure to follow the hashtag #getyourtweetsout !

Our testing ground for the workshop is @Examplealla. Our examples on how to look at everything Twitter will be focused on this page so be sure to follow the page.

This is our first inter-state workshop with presenters from Sydney and Melbourne. Our presenters are:

• Larissa Reid @larissa_reid
• Sherry Sarmiento @SherrySarmiento
• Alicia Cohen @Alicia_Cohen
• Alex Cato @Curious_Meow

Don’t forget to bring your mobile device to the workshop and for everyone else be sure to keep a look out for #getyourtweetsout. How-to guides and a summary of the goings-on of the workshop  will be available on the blog after the workshop.

(Source: Aprewave Media; http://www.bizreport.com/2012/07/how-to-tweet—better.html)

Post: 27 August 2013

#getyourtweetsout

Want to enter the twittersphere but not sure how? Want to brush up so that you can tweet like a pro at the conference? Or just want to find out some tips and tricks about Twitter?

Then come to our workshop and #getyourtweetsout!

ALLA NSW will be hosting a session on the ins and outs of Twitter.
Hosted by Larissa Reid, Sherry Sarmiento, Alex Cato and across the digital world by Alicia Cohen the session will go through:

• communicating in 140 characters or less
• favourite, retweet or reply? When to do what?
• #hastags – the serious and the sarcastic
• managing the feed monster with lists OR separate your ‘lives’ with lists
• direct communication
• taking photos

What you need to do: log-in to Twitter. We have put together a guide on ExampleALLA to help you do this https://twitter.com/ExampleALLA.

What you need bring: your mobile device

When: 1pm, 28 August 2013 

Address: Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney

RSVP at EventBrite

Posted: 22 August 2013