To a packed room of local busi­ness people includ­ing rep­res­ent­at­ives from Busi­ness Link, I delivered the first of my sem­inars on the sub­ject of “Using Twit­ter for Busi­ness” at Action for Busi­ness’ offices in Brad­ford yes­ter­day afternoon.

Run by Brad­ford Grid the event was aimed at small busi­ness own­ers who were inquis­it­ive about the micro-blogging phe­nomenon that has exploded on the social net­work­ing web­site scene within the last 12 months; what it is and how it can be used as a bene­fi­cial tool for their own businesses.

So on one of the hot­test and mug­gi­est days of the year so far, I went through Twit­ter basics and a live web demon­stra­tion of some key Twit­ter man­age­ment tools.

The whole ses­sion was aimed at new people to the ser­vice (“new­bies”) with the inten­tion of turn­ing them into fully fledged mem­bers of the Twit­ter com­munity (Tweeple) by cov­er­ing Twit­ter basics with an over­view of the tools and tech­niques that would get them con­fid­ently tweet­ing in no time at all.

Vicky Endogan, owner of Solu­tions Book­keep­ing in Hud­der­sfield remarked of the event afterwards;

“Before Jaimie’s Twit­ter intro­duct­ory ses­sion, I had an account, but had never used it and had no idea how to start. Today I’m Twit­ter­ing away, I have people fol­low­ing me and am using my Tweet­deck! The ses­sion was easy to fol­low, informal and with plenty of breaks to ask ques­tions. I now have a new way to net­work and mar­ket my business.”

Sim­il­arly another attendee of yesterday’s ses­sion, Siobhan Hymes of graphic design agency Inch Punch Design commented;

“Jaimie’s work­shop answered the ques­tions I had regard­ing Twit­ter and how it can help my busi­ness. I have gained a greater under­stand­ing of the Twit­ter applic­a­tions that are out there and now have the con­fid­ence to trial them out for myself .”

As can be seen, ini­tial feed­back to date has rendered the sem­inar a suc­cess des­pite the sauna like con­di­tions in the room which included only a fan and open win­dows for com­fort. Well done every­one and thanks for attending.

My next work­shop on Twit­ter which will look at more advanced tech­niques, will be a “bring your laptop” type of inter­act­ive event. Watch this space for dates.

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