How to use twitter for business? It's a social networking tool like no other in my opinion.
I started Twitter in a very partial way.
I'd heard about it and seen the "follow me on Twitter" often enough.
But, like many other people I've have become quite drawn to it and the tools that are available to widen the experience.
I can really see the advantage of it for business.
Teachers use twitter a certain way, to entice children to express themselves and to write sentences.
Marketers use twitter to give their products exposure; other people use twitter to develop ideas and share them.
Professionals use twitter to keep ideas and thoughts circulating and developing.
Others still use Twitter purely as a unique conversation medium.
It's a chance to meet and talk in a controlled way (140 characters) without leaving the home.
For business you can start using Twitter as an information desk function.
Its an easy stop off for training, gaining corporate feedback or just about anything! Setting up a special tweet for functions is a great idea; as time is usually of the essence and Twitter is very immediate on that basis.
Twitter is good for collecting people's viewpoints and dispersing them.
It's like an evolving textbook.
You can re-tweet for situations which need extra emphasis.
You can ask a question in your tweets which engages people and stimulates instant responses.
You can even send them off to reference a web page.
How about a last minute 'good luck' delivery or briefing to your work colleagues? Twitters not a 'showy' thing, it's not a frustrating 'design' thing that takes forever to create.
Twitters not restricted to age or function.
It's not limited in any way.
It does not require any particular skills apart from a desire for self expression.
For business it's a great and innovative device.
Twitters a freer medium for business to send, share and respond to information in a cutting edge way.