Twitter

You know about twitter don’t you? I have recently joined up and have found it to be a plethora of good stuff—so so stuff too.

Oh heck, because I’m a poor speller and wanted to know how to spell a word, I looked it up on my reference guide and was hit with a photo so abhorrent it knocked the good thoughts right out of my head.

People who focus on gore: Cut it out!

Okay, back to life in the positive lane.

Shake it out.

I was talking about twitter.

For you who are new to tweeting, here is a definition:

A tweet is a micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read text-based posts up to 140 characters. These mini-posts are known as “tweets.”

Yesterday, while sitting here about to format my own book for Kindle, lo and behold I was followed on twitter by somebody who is expert at formatting. Yay! Thank you  www.WriteIntoPrint.com  Let’s talk.

 
Another find on twitter was Tom Ewer http://www.leavingworkbehind.com
 
How important is twitter to bloggers? Ewer asks.

"Very," he says.

Your Twitter presence is only as useful as your tweets.

If you have an established a brand elsewhere but tweet rubbish, you might attract users simply because of your brand, but that’s all.

Consider every tweet you publish as a brick in the building of your brand.
Promote yourself, yes, but engage with others. Do not think of it simply as a platform to promote your own content.

Ask questions.

As I pointed out at the beginning of this post, Twitter is extremely useful for using the talents of others.

No one is obliged to answer your questions. If they do it is because they want to do it.

Answer them too.

Persist.

That is the key to success with twitter and with most endeavors.

Focus on quality

 “ Establishing valuable relationships with a select few people is far better than having one-off exchanges with everyone and their mother.”--Ewen

 

I love that people thank people for following them, but to say so on their tweets seems a waste of space, and boring for the rest of us to read. I believe the best way to thank someone is to re-tweet them.

So, my advice would be to have tweets with substance, something people want to re-tweet.

Another thing, and tell me if I’m wrong here, but I just do not understand automatic or a paid service to get followers--although I know it is a numbers game. I prefer to be selective. I do, however, like to honor the person who follows me by following back.

 

 

Thank you.

If you have any tips and tricks for getting things done on Twitter I would love to read them.

P.S.

Think of it this way if you produce quality content consistently and over an extended period

Have Another Cup on Me...

 

Yesterday daughter and I began listening, on audiotape, to the motivational speaker Tony Robbins. Four years ago in the shuffle of moving from Oregon to Hawaii I lost my set of Robbins' tapes. As we were packing to move from California back to Oregon, a sweet friend drove for two hours to give me copies of his tapes.

Now, isn’t that a gesture worth writing about?

Daughter and I planned to become motivated for success as we drove up I-5 aiming for our new home. Except that with two adults, one 4-year-old in a car seat, two dogs and a cat stuffed into our faithful Toyota pickup truck, it was like this:

 

 Or maybe this:

 

Okay, back to Robbins. The first assignment given by Tony is to do two things that would change the course of your life.

 

Two things. Things you have been putting off. Maybe call a person and clear up some misunderstanding. Do the thing you don’t want to do. 

My two things?

I finally decided to send my manuscript Mother’s Letters, Daughters’ Secrets to a publisher. I had a publisher on my docket. They wanted a completed manuscript and I was waiting until I had one.  I checked their site and found they are not accepting submissions at the present time. Har har. “This summer,” they said.

Okay. Check in with another publisher. Can't find this particular publisher on the web.  Har, har, har. I guess everything is pointing the eBook submission. 

 I need a cover.

 So I ordered Corel Draw in hopes of making a book cover. Any words of advice?

Keep checking in as I follow the tapes I will pass on what inspires me.
 

 

And from dear Zig:

 

 

                                                     

 

 

Some say we need a coach to keep us on our toes or entropy sets in.

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aSoulMan: “We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive”— Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Handle stress with grace. In late March, President Obama was addressing a highly controversial topic during a speech in Jerusalem when a young man began heckling him from the audience. Not missing a beat, the president listened while the young man finished his comments and responded by stating, "This is part of the lively debate we talked about," without expressing anger or frustration.

Disregarding President Obama's politics, he handled what could have been a tense situation gracefully and ultimately got a standing ovation for his quick, collected reaction.