Slides from my Café Conversation session on 'Professional Tweeting for Beginners' at the NICON 2014 Conference.

1. Professional Tweeting For
Beginners
Dr Steven Kinnear
Physician & Freelance Consultant
@DrStevenKinnear
www.stevenkinnear.com

2. What we’ll cover
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Supercharging your networking
Keeping up to date
Engaging and influencing
Twitter basics
Hashtags
Live Tweeting
Tips for using Twitter well

3. What do these people have in common?

4. Keep up to date

5. Keep up to date

6. Engage & influence

7. Engage & influence

8. Engage & influence

9. Engage & influence

11. Engage & influence

12. Timeline

13. Name
Handle
Bio
Location
Website

14. Press the
retweet button
to resend a
tweet to your
followers

15. Choose to retweet or cancel

16. Press the reply button
to reply to a tweet

17. This opens the reply box

18. Clicking on a tweet
expands the tweet
and opens the reply
box
If the tweet contains a
link the expanded tweet
also shows more
information about the
link

19. Hashtag

20. Clicking the hashtag
in a tweet searches
for the hashtag……..
…and shows
the results

21. Live tweets from the European
Respiratory Society Congress

22. 5 Reasons why you should use Twitter
1. You will learn a lot from other people
2. You will stay bang up-to-date with what’s
happening in your areas of interest
3. You will be able to share important views,
news and information
4. You will be able to network more effectively
5. You will have fun discussing, debating, sharing
& learning

23. Tips for using Twitter
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Understand what Twitter is
Lurk & learn
Be yourself
Be responsible
Have a strategy
Old rules – new tools

24. Further Information
www.stevenkinnear.com/blog

25. Questions and hands-on help