New Media TV BETA

In case you missed the broadcast

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Here is an awesome blog post with examples of beta tags and more! – http://www.mikevanwinkle.com/marketing/seo/seo-basics/

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Join us Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 12PM EST

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How to link your various new media tools into one cohesive plan (talking points)

1) Define your objective both institutionally and for each project

2) Define the audiences that will support your plan

a. Do you have a call to action? What is your point?

3) Where are they? Pewresearch.org

a. Facebook: 90.8 million viewers, 54% female, 18-34 46%, 77% white, 52% no kids, 59% 60k-100k income, 42% college education

b. Twitter: young adults, households under $30K, people who use other social networks, internet users, and bloggers. Another piece claims number of govt Twitter users quickly increasing.

c. Youtube:

d. MySpace: primarily non college bound, higher percentage of Latinos and Blacks. Also many musicians

e. iPhone: 31 years, 72% Male, 58% College, Income 75k

f. LinkedIn: Age 41,  64% male, 34% own SMART PHONES, College graduates 80.1%, Overlap with Facebook 82%, Twitter 31%, MySpace 36%

4) What message will reach your target audience?

a. Research

b. Trial and error

5) Up until this point, this is traditional marketing – in fact your online plan should be your marketing plan. New media and traditional media are misnomers. It is all the same things – the tools are simply much less expensive and easier to target online.

6) Set employee expectations

a. How much time can each staff person dedicate to this project

b. Who is in charge of this project

c. How will you measure success (links, retweets, number of participants, etc)

d. How does the information flow

i. Institute feed

ii. Individual feeds act as filters

e. Write a clear definition into the job description of each employee

f. Writing standards

i. Spell check

ii. Vocabulary

iii. Length

iv. What is inappropriate

7) Pull the trigger, seek ways to automate if appropriate

The personal touch is necessary

9) An example structure

10) Evaluate results at least monthly and after each major campaign

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Organize Your New Media Toolkit with Nicole Williams”

08:54 Nicole Sauce : hello early birds

08:56 Nicole Sauce : Look Mitch, we each have a unique name!

08:57 Mitch : oooh!!!

08:57 Mitch : yay!!!

08:57 Nicole Sauce : Going live in  three minutes – turingoff my ac

08:57 Mitch :  humid down there?

08:58 Nicole Sauce : oh yes

08:58 Nicole Sauce : and HOT today

08:58 Nicole Sauce : summer just arrived after it was over

08:58 Mitch : first day of fall too haha its going to be 90 here

08:58 Mitch : haha

08:58 Nicole Sauce : who else is here?

08:58 Denise  SPN : Hello everyone!

08:59 toguchi : present!

08:59 Nicole Sauce : awwww friends…

09:00 Dave Williams : Hello!

09:00 Dave Williams : It is so cute!

09:05 Mitch : pewresearch.org

09:06 Laurel : Wow. Interesting statistics

09:08 Nate : I though MySpace was mostly by teenage girls/guys who want to pick up teenage girls

09:10 Tina Pisenti : Good morning from Portland, OR!

09:13 DBSeymour : Hello!

09:13 Mitch : Hi David!

09:16 Mitch : williams@spn.org

09:17 TracieSharp : ya!!

09:17 TracieSharp : Me!

09:17 TracieSharp : football!

09:17 Laurel : Who doesn’t like Tracie Sharp?

09:17 TracieSharp : aw shucks!

09:17 Denise  SPN : ewww…i don’t know who would want to be Tracie Sharp’s friend…

09:17 Mitch : YAY!! im friends w Tracie!!!

09:17 TracieSharp : Blog aggregator:  http://www.statepolicyblog.org/

09:18 TracieSharp : Denise you’re fired.

09:18 TracieSharp : email Nic if you want to be on blog aggregator:  williams@spn.org

09:19 Denise  SPN : Well I’ll certainly unfriend you now.

09:20 TracieSharp : …and there goes your bonus — haha

09:21 TracieSharp : Denise?

09:21 Denise  SPN : Oh no!  Nicole think it’s about her bonus.

09:22 Claire@ TalentMarket : Nicole, what are your thoughts on less experienced staff members blogging? (e.g. interns?)  Does that lower the “value” of an organization’s blog?

09:22 TracieSharp : very thorough!

09:23 Laurel : Good question, Claire

09:23 toguchi : how do you evaluate if your call to action was successful?  pure numbers?

09:23 Nate : Is your list posted anywhere, or should I have written it down?

09:24 DBSeymour : Random question but does anyone know the critical mass for a FB page, ie when it starts to run in people’s home page feeds

09:24 Dan B : Go Claire!

09:27 TracieSharp : Will you talk about all this stuff at our Annual Meeting?

09:27 DBSeymour : Hmmm very complicated algorithm…

09:28 Mitch : www.spn.org

09:28 Laurel : It’s going to be full of tech talk!

09:28 TracieSharp : Technology Innovation Lab too!

09:28 DBSeymour : Shameless selfpromotion but I’m on here talking flat tax in 5 mins

09:28 DBSeymour : http://www.newstalk650.com/

09:29 TracieSharp : I’m getting up early for that one!

09:29 TracieSharp : 9:30am EST, 6:30am PST on Thursday

09:30 Mitch : wew!! early for us west coasters!

09:30 TracieSharp : http://tweetillinois.org/

09:30 Laurel : Thanks, Nicole!

09:30 TracieSharp : Bye Nicole!  great job.

09:30 Tina Pisenti : Thanks, Nicole.  Very helpful!

09:30 toguchi : thanks Nicole!

09:30 Dave Williams : Thanks.

09:30 DBSeymour : thanks

09:31 Kevin Kane : Thanks!

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Join us September 22, at 12pm EST to discuss how to link everything we have covered this year into one plan. Hope to see you there!

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11:13 TomGrassroot : whats the ROI

11:15 TomGrassroot : thanks

11:15 TomGrassroot : return on investment

11:15 nicole sauce : Return on Investment

11:15 IHS Laura Schonmulle : return on investment

11:16 TomGrassroot : sounds like our last board meeting!

11:16 nicole sauce : Should we all source the same wiki or make our own?

11:17 nicole sauce : Should we participate in wikis, or build  different ones

11:18 nicole sauce : awww people helping people

11:19 nicole sauce : what if we want a distinct domein name for our wiki, can we still participate in ohio sunshine?

11:19 nicole sauce : i mean sinshine review

11:20 nicole sauce : If my article on wikipedia keeps getting deleted, should i get a friend to contact them for help?

11:21 IHS Laura Schonmulle : have you all experimented with giving trusted, active wiki users admin privileges, to save yourselves som eupkeep?

11:21 TomGrassroot : who manages and who owns$ Wiki?

11:21 jmorris : I am a litte confused. What is sunshine review?

11:22 TomGrassroot : How many viewers/hits… what does success look like

11:23 TomGrassroot : a good site reaches how many people

11:23 Bryan SC Policy Cncl : sunshine review is a website

11:24 TomGrassroot : thanks

11:24 TomGrassroot : works with mac and pc right?

11:25 TomGrassroot : Aloha!

11:25 corey davis : When you say link to the top 10 search results, do you mean link that to a Sunshine Review article?

11:25 corey davis : thanks

11:25 TomGrassroot : is that webinar here?

11:26 nicole sauce :

11:26 nicole sauce : email you?

11:26 Kristinpedia : Kristinpedia@sunshinereview.org

11:26 TomGrassroot : awesome

11:26 IHS Laura Schonmulle : great, thanks, Kristin!

11:26 nicole sauce : thank you Kristin!!

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Connecting to chat room…

Welcome to the ‘newmediatvorg’ room

10:48 The chat room has been cleared by the moderator.

12:38 Nicole Sauce : Next program – New Media Mania: SEO 101 by Michael Van Winkle. May 8, 12pm EST

10:49 Nicole Sauce : We’ll be starting in about 10 minutes

10:52 Nicole Sauce : So, who has joined us?

10:52 Nicole Sauce : I see Juan…

10:53 Denise  SPN : Hi everyone!

10:54 Nicole Sauce : Ms. Denise! Hello

10:54 Jennifer Butler SPN : hi!

10:54 EmpireTim : Hello all

10:54 Nicole Sauce : Jennifer – are ou online over cell netowork?

10:55 Nicole Sauce : Hi Tim!

10:55 Jennifer Butler SPN : cell – driving to atl

10:55 Nicole Sauce : If there are groups of you on one internet connection viewing this, you should share one computer or the brodcast might fail due to your ISP’s bandwidth restrictions.

10:56 Nicole Sauce : wow – interesting to see if you will be able to view the live stream while driving

10:56 Juan : I’ve done it.

10:56 Nicole Sauce : how did it work?

10:56 Juan : on my cell phone.

10:56 Jennifer Butler SPN : I will listen – not watch

10:56 Nicole Sauce : you shoudl try watching for kicks!

10:57 Juan : I used skyfire, it was jumpy but it was there

10:57 Nicole Sauce : that is so cool!

10:57 Nicole Sauce : tppf has in in the buiilding

10:57 Jennifer Butler SPN : doubt fellow hwy drivers wouls appreciate that

10:57 tppf : Mike Joyce and Greg Sindelar here!

10:57 Nicole Sauce : Hello all !

10:57 Juan changed their nickname to Weaver.

10:58 Nicole Sauce : IHS, IHS!

10:58 Andrew St : Juan/Weaver, what kind of cell phone do you have?

10:58 Dave Williams : Hello Folks!

10:58 Weaver : nokia e71 with skyfire

10:58 cconko : hi

10:58 Nicole Sauce : Hello!

10:58 Nicole Sauce : e start in about 2 minutes

10:59 Laura IHS : great, thanks Nicole.

10:59 Dave Williams : Nicole – watching chickens hatching would that be considered “Cheep” thrills?

10:59 Weaver : hey Dave

10:59 Jennifer Butler SPN : har har

11:01 Nicole Sauce : Nice office!

11:01 Nicole Sauce : use #nmtv to live twitter this show

11:03 Nicole Sauce : Yes – three weeks from this eekend we could brodcast another hatch

11:05 Nicole Sauce : check out the oerlay! We have new tricks this time

11:06 izzy : Hi

11:06 Dave Williams : Sometimes words we use mean two different things like “pork.”  A search engine can’t differntiate.

11:06 Nicole Sauce : Izzy!

11:06 Mike Toguchi : hey Mike, Nicole and gang

11:07 beverly : Nicole, I didn’t sign in as viewer. need me to do that?

11:07 MHPC : sweet overlay

11:07 Nicole Sauce : Hello Toguchi – dont twitter any Lost spoilers yet

11:07 Nicole Sauce : no need

11:07 Mike Toguchi : I don’t – just for you

11:07 Nicole Sauce : I can see you on the chat list beverly – welcome

11:07 izzy : sauce!

11:07 izzy : hi van winkle

11:07 Jack : Jack McHugh:  Gold standard? Is this a Ron Paul thing?

11:08 Nicole Sauce : Hi Jack – can you call me this afternoon?

11:08 Carl Gipson WPC : This has worked for us, particularly with Facebook

11:09 Nicole Sauce : cool

11:09 Shaka : nevermind, i’m in

11:11 Nicole Sauce : Welcome Shaka!

11:11 Nicole Sauce : Looking forward to maybe brodcasting from your office on May 27!

11:11 Shaka : Sure thing, our doors are always open to fellow travelers

11:12 Nicole Sauce : That moving pattern might make some of you dizzy

11:13 Nicole Sauce : looks like we have more than 60 viewers, proof that the 60 viewer cap has been removed!

11:14 Nicole Sauce : who has questions?

11:14 Dave Williams : Is it important to use names of authors as keywords?

11:14 AZlipsticklady : How do you create a landing page?

11:15 Isaac : how does this help our side win?  is this a long term strategy?

11:15 Andrew St : How much does Google pay attention to meta tags like “keywords”?

11:16 tppf : without programming a landing page, how can we make something internally, in our org?

11:16 Nicole Sauce : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

11:16 Isaac changed their nickname to yo mama.

11:16 Nicole Sauce : 11:14 Dave Williams : Is it important to use names of authors as keywords?

11:16 Nicole Sauce : 11:14 Dave Williams : Is it important to use names of authors as keywords?

11:17 Nicole Sauce : What is  A CMS?

11:17 Nicole Sauce : ISAAC YOU ARE CRACKING ME UP

11:18 Brad : What do you think of categories and tag pages as de-facto “landing pages” created on the fly?

11:18 tppf : whatelse besides landing pages can we do to improve organic rankings?

11:18 Regular  Folk : Need link to google keyword research tool again. Can’t find.

11:19 beverly : This has worked well with my site. If people list an HSA question it will link them to my FAQ.

11:19 Carl Gipson WPC : Seventy!

11:19 Nicole Sauce :

11:20 Nicole Sauce : Keywor tool link to copy and paste: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

11:20 Nicole Sauce : 11:15 Isaac : how does this help our side win?  is this a long term strategy?

11:20 RichardL : nice IPI shout-out there, mike.

11:20 Mike Toguchi : I think Andy’s question about Google and meta data got missed (they don’t pay attention)

11:21 Nicole Sauce : 11:15 Isaac : how does this help our side win?  is this a long term strategy?

11:21 beverly changed their nickname to Beverly.

11:22 Andrew St : Thanks Mike

11:22 yo mama : Nicole, add alcohol and it only get worse

11:22 Nicole Sauce : 11:15 Andrew St : How much does Google pay attention to meta tags like “keywords”

11:23 Beverly : What are meta tags?

11:23 Nicole Sauce : We have a 7 second delay today

11:23 Nicole Sauce : Beverly asks what are metatags?

11:23 Rich_WPC : How about Meta tag descriptions (unique) for each page?

11:23 Nicole Sauce : Explain waht a meta tag is

11:24 cconko : Was interrupted for a bit – so pls skip if addressed? What’s a good strategy for Google AdWords? How often should I update, etc.?

11:24 cconko : Do you have recs for a good Google Sitemap free generators for over 500 pages?

11:25 Nicole Sauce changed their nickname to Nicole Sauce.

11:25 Nicole Sauce : Meta tags are something that you state in a part of your webpage that sumamrizes what the page is about. It used to be that having these tag words match your content on the page that people could see would help your search ranking. But not so much anymore.

11:25 Andrew St : Do you know of any automated site map creators?  Especially for a Tomcat server with a Java platform.

11:26 Nicole Sauce : Jose?

11:26 Jack : How about facebook ads?

11:26 Nicole Sauce : We set up a site map creator for our healthcare blog and it made quite a difference.

11:26 Brad : Drupal has an easy sitemap module – if anybody needs info on it let me know

11:27 Weaver : java site map creator…

11:27 Nicole Sauce : Thank you Weaverez

11:27 Mike Toguchi : not heoretically

11:28 Nicole Sauce :

11:28 Weaver : heh… I’ve used something before, I don’t remember the name right now… But its just an .xml file… I’m looking.

11:29 Dave Williams : What are some of the biggest mistakes people make with SEO?

11:30 AZlipsticklady : are YouTube embeds searchable?

11:31 Regular  Folk : Just learning…how  do you actually use key terms.  You mentioned bidding.

11:31 Andrew St : I know some SEO guides talk about Google dropping sites’ rank for “abusive” behavior.  Can you speak to what can trigger these penalties?

11:31 tfr : youtube ads, anyone using them?

11:32 Weaver : Andrew do you use cocoon?

11:33 Andrew St : No

11:33 Dave Williams : FYI – I just did a Google search on “New Media Tv” and you guys were the second in the search list.

11:34 Nicole Sauce : hmmm

11:34 Nicole Sauce : we have work to do

11:34 Nicole Sauce :

11:34 Weaver : Andrew email me at weaver@spn.org and I’ll send you the site map info for meshing tomcat with cocoon, cocoon offers a quick site map implementation.

11:34 Andrew St : Our PDFs show up on google searches.

11:35 Andrew St : Thanks Weaver

11:35 Mike Toguchi : PDF’s will show up, but Mike is right that an HTML version is easier to crawl

11:35 AZlipsticklady : Weaver, answer your email!

11:35 Nicole Sauce : As an internet user, I hate opening pdfs

11:35 tppf : Thank you! Great program!

11:36 Nicole Sauce : it takes too much internet bandwidth – grump grump

11:36 Shaka : Not exactly an SEO question but what kind of bounce rate should we be targetting?

11:36 Dave Williams : PDF’s ROCK!

11:36 Nicole Sauce : lower=better

11:38 Higgins : ?

11:38 Higgins changed their nickname to woIoIo.

11:39 Andrew St : Should we assume that analytic software, like Google Analytics, counts spider-bots?

11:40 Weaver : awstats

11:40 Kelly : once you have your key words, where do you go from there with them?

11:41 Beverly : Thanks, gang

11:41 cconko : Can you talk about strategies for increasing links to our sites?

11:41 Nicole Sauce : I get 1 to 10 on google versus livestats

11:41 Weaver : I use analytics and awstats… Google has some pretty cool features, but it doesn’t show everything.

11:42 woIoIo : wololo

11:42 Nicole Sauce : try to get other spn folks to link to your site…

11:42 woIoIo changed their nickname to wololo.

11:43 Nicole Sauce : i thnk we can wrp up

11:43 cconko : Thank you very informative

11:43 Mike Toguchi : Great stuff Mike, thanks!  Hope your Cubbies have a good summer

11:43 Andrew St : Great way to add keywords is in the alt tags for img’s and the

11:43 Andrew St : title attributes in links

11:43 Dave Williams : Thanks Mike.  Very informative.

11:43 Nicole Sauce : we can do SEO 102 next…

11:43 Karl : Thank you Mike.

11:43 Regular  Folk : You can all post  content to www.regularfolksunited.com so you get links back. we cross post to Townhall so you will get  benefit of links

11:43 Karl : Greatly appreciated.

11:43 Nicole Sauce : Great job Mike!

11:44 RichardL : i’m jealous of your hair, mike.

11:44 Andrew St : Very helpful, thanks

11:44 jacqueline083 : thanks!

11:45 AZlipsticklady : Thanks, please do another show on this.

11:45 yo mama : very informative

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11:55 The chat room has been cleared by the moderator.

12:47 Nicole Sauce : Next live episode: New Media Mania welcomes Michael Quinn Sullivan on April Fools Day.

21:41 nate : hey

17:10 Nicole Sauce : hi

17:17 Nicole Sauce : why the bird?

11:46 Nicole Sauce : The show might be a few mintes late today. Please stand by…

11:47 MRothbard : Tweet this!

11:47 Nicole Sauce : Murray – you’re back!

11:53 jacqueline083 : so… will the video automatically load to this page when the show starts?

11:56 Denise  SPN : Denise SPN

11:56 Denise  SPN : Hi Everyone.  Jacqueline –Yep–it’ll just start

11:56 Jose changed their nickname to Joe.

11:56 mqs : howdy! i guess we’re about to start!

11:56 Dave Williams : I’m ready to Tweet!

11:58 DaveTPPF : I guess I could walk across the street and watch from there but I’ll just hog some bandwidth on this end.

11:59 Carl Graham : Carl in MT in from shoveling spring sunshine.

12:00 DaveTPPF : Do we have chicks yet?

12:00 Tim : Will a question come to you instantly if I type it in here?

12:00 Joe : hey Dave

12:00 Dave Williams : A real tweet!

12:00 DaveTPPF : What up, Weaver

12:00 TracieSharp : Hey Michael

12:01 Martin : Oh, this high-tech world!

12:01 Nicole Sauce : Anyone who wants to tweet the show use #NMTV and remember that it is http://www.newmediatv.org not .com

12:02 Denise  SPN : What’s everyone’s twitter name?  I want to follow everyone.  I’m “Chaykun”

12:02 DaveTPPF : DavidGuenthner

12:02 Kathy Hoekstra : I’m khoekstra

12:02 Nicole Sauce : I am nicolesauce

12:02 NickyCheese : NickyCheese

12:02 Kathy Hoekstra changed their nickname to Mackinac Kathy.

12:02 DaveTPPF : BTW, we’re starting a TPPF Twitter at TPPF

12:02 Jorge at ALEC : ALEC_States

12:02 AtotheK : IWF

12:03 Harry Miller : Good to meet you all!

12:03 Nicole Sauce : How’s the sound quality everyone?

12:03 Nicole Sauce : Hi Harry

12:03 Grant Callen : not bad

12:03 Mackinac Kathy : Sounds tinny, but totally audible

12:03 Nicole Sauce : sweet

12:03 Dave Williams : not bad

12:03 JLaPlante : Denise: JohnLaPlante

12:03 Harry Miller : Little lag in voice to video

12:03 Brandon WPC : sounds good

12:03 Nicole Sauce : that’s normal for live over web

12:03 Harry Miller : Hello Nicole

12:03 Nicole Sauce : we reached back into the grave and got Murray rothbard here

12:03 Grant Callen : let’s just say it’s ten times better than last time.

12:04 Nicole Sauce :

12:04 Nicole Sauce : no echo?

12:04 GFC Team : volume is a little low to us.  No echo

12:04 Harry Miller : not on my end

12:04 Pat Barton IHS : I hear static in the background

12:04 JLaPlante : Yeah, volume is low for me.

12:04 AtotheK : I’m getting a static sound but no echo

12:05 JLaPlante : Hooray. Volume up. So is static (but it’s not bad).

12:05 beverly : Hey, Nicole, pictue is better quality than last time. Expected delay but there are flashes on the screen.

12:05 izzy : hi!

12:05 Harry Miller changed their nickname to Harry Miller ASTOA.

12:05 Nicole Sauce : Michael is using a camera that is giving some personality today

12:05 DaveTPPF : Izzy!

12:06 izzy : dave…hey hey

12:06 Nicole Sauce : LIFM

12:06 izzy : nicole sauce!!!

12:06 Dave Williams : i thought those were college flashbacks

12:06 Denise  SPN : Izzy, Bev, AK!  HI!

12:06 izzy : why is the audio fuzzy

12:06 Nicole Sauce : is it fuzzy for you?

12:07 izzy : yea

12:07 jacqueline083 : yup… and jagged

12:07 Mackinac Kathy : is the microphone/camera near his tower or some power source? or does he have a humidifier in his office?

12:07 Nicole Sauce : we’re getting rroom noise

12:07 Nicole Sauce : its on his lapel

12:07 JLaPlante : Q: What do you think of TwitterDek? Twitterific? Other alternatives to standard web?

12:07 jeb : do you follow the opposition

12:07 Mackinac Kathy : oh.. i see it..

12:07 mqs : mqsullivan

12:08 DaveTPPF : John: I like Twhirl

12:08 mqs : tweetlater.com

12:08 Nicole Sauce : it might be your phone michael

12:08 izzy : twitterfon for iphone is awesome

12:08 Greg : I like tweetie

12:08 Nicole Sauce : i like twitterberry from my storm

12:09 Nicole Sauce : i unfollow people to tweet too much

12:09 Denise  SPN : I have twitterberry on my blackberry too.  It’s pretty good.

12:09 Harry Miller ASTOA : Storm user as well

12:09 Carl Gipson WPC : twitterific is a good one too

12:09 beverly : I like twinkies.

12:09 Nicole Sauce : fried or plain?

12:09 Carl Gipson WPC : twitterfon for my iPhone

12:09 beverly : dipped in chocolate

12:10 Nicole Sauce : what is a twitter tag?

12:10 beverly : Is anyone else getting the flashing?

12:10 NPRI : yes

12:10 DaveTPPF : Twitter tag is hashtag #tcot

12:10 Harry Miller ASTOA : yup

12:10 DaveTPPF : for example

12:10 Grant Callen : what about tweetdeck?

12:10 cs : test

12:12 Mackinac Kathy : does the opposition follow you back?

12:12 Grant Callen : what is a twitter tag?

12:13 Mackinac Kathy : lol… thanks!

12:13 Carl Graham : state media were among my first followers.  anyone see that in your states?

12:14 mqs : #tcot

12:14 Grant Callen : Are direct tweets really private?

12:14 Mackinac Kathy : More politicians than media…so far. I’m more of a newbie

12:14 TracieSharp : no Tweet is private

12:14 Grant Callen : gotcha

12:14 DaveTPPF : #txlege has been a great way for us to push content

12:14 TracieSharp : some have found out the hard way

12:14 izzy : your tweet is saved for google for every

12:14 izzy : ever*

12:15 TracieSharp : yes – Google grabs and saves everything

12:15 Carl Gipson WPC : so what does the #txledge actually do?

12:15 Mackinac Kathy : some of my tweets have come up in google alerts

12:15 DaveTPPF : #txlege is the Twitter feed for “Virtual Capitol,” the legislative feed for Austin American-Statesman and other papers in that family

12:15 Nicole Sauce : i had a tweet show up on my google alerts

12:16 DaveTPPF : If you have a twitter page, it should show up on the first page of your Google search alerts

12:17 Nicole Sauce : So, what is a twitter tag?

12:17 Brandon WPC : Can you explain how to use?

12:17 DaveTPPF : Twitter tag is hashtag like #tcot or #statebooks or #txlege

12:17 DaveTPPF : NTU

12:17 John R Graham : Where should I put the tag: beginning or end of tweet?

12:17 Nicole Sauce : You just start using # plus anything

12:18 Nicole Sauce : then go to search and look up “#tcot” for example

12:18 Natasha from NTU : statebooks.org is a joint project between NTU and ATR

12:18 DaveTPPF : www.Hashtags.org gives you a good way to see what’s already out there

12:18 beverly : Just joined twitter and am now following you, Michael.

12:18 DaveTPPF : And to collect updates to that tag

12:18 Nicole Sauce : then you can integrate the feed from that as rss anywhere

12:18 DaveTPPF : Beverly – what’s your nickname?

12:18 beverly : beverly

12:18 TracieSharp : There’s also #transparency and #statebooks (state budget deficits)

12:18 DaveTPPF : Twitter is good to use for live events

12:19 DaveTPPF : pressers, speeches, lege hearings, etc.

12:19 Nicole Sauce : If you want to say something nice about NewMediaTV.org you can use #NMTV

12:19 beverly : do you mean my twitter nickname?

12:19 beverly : bghsa

12:19 Nicole Sauce : yes beverly

12:19 Nicole Sauce : thanks

12:19 Nicole Sauce : tweetlater.com

12:20 mqs : friendorfollow.com

12:20 DaveTPPF : When our comptroller released rev estimate in January, I live-tweeted the announcement

12:20 Nicole Sauce : How do you craft your tweet language? What works best? and what is a “tweet”

12:20 DaveTPPF : People who couldn’t attend (but wanted to) could find out the news (plus our spin) in real time

12:21 DaveTPPF : Before even the reporters in the room could tweet to their pages, let alone write a blog or article

12:21 OzarkGuru : Recommend posting stories first without hashtag which sets up the feed link & then immediately edit & add hashtags

12:21 DaveTPPF : tweet = your message

12:21 John R Graham : Are a lot of followers spam-followers? I’ve picked up followers of whom I’ve never heard.

12:23 Nicole Sauce : HAve you <Type removed> how to craft messages on twitter to get more click throughs?

12:23 Nicole Sauce : tested

12:24 Natasha from NTU : hi everyone my twitter name is @naltamirano

12:24 Mackinac Kathy : Nicole- typo is cracking me up

12:25 Nicole Sauce : i get a few spam followers a day – i just dont follow them back

12:25 OzarkGuru : The more that read you twitter the better but I do block “adult xxx” followers.  Just because someone follows does not mean you have to follow them.

12:26 Nicole Sauce : It’s realy cool to feed your tweets onto Facebook and your website and blog

12:26 Mackinac Kathy : How do you set it up to update your facebook page?

12:26 DaveTPPF : There is a Twitter app on Facebook

12:26 OzarkGuru : Nichole – right on  Follow Me: Dr. Bill Smith @arra

12:26 Mackinac Kathy : Ahh…

12:26 TracieSharp : If you want to say something nice about NewMediaTV.org you can use #NMTV.

12:27 DaveTPPF : That will update all tweets that don’t start with @

12:27 Nicole Sauce : Do you tweet personal updates?

12:27 Mackinac Kathy : thx Nicole i wanted to ask that too…

12:27 DaveTPPF : Nicole – I do, probably more than I should.

12:27 TracieSharp : If you want to say something nice about ME, then it’s #TraSharp.  :)

12:27 Nicole Sauce : Do you send out personal tweets?

12:27 beverly : Does the # mean an organization

12:27 TracieSharp : oh great

12:28 Nicole Sauce : is it a good idea?

12:28 DaveTPPF : But I think it is important on a personal page to include some sort of sense of the real person

12:28 John R Graham : I think it’s a good idea to put a little personal touch in the mix, like on Facebook.  Sometimes I’ll twee that I’m enjoying the ferry ride back home.

12:28 cs : What is the difference between @ and #

12:28 beverly : or you’re skiing some place cool, John

12:28 DaveTPPF : Otherwise, it winds up coming across as more of an advertisement than a real person

12:29 DaveTPPF : There are at least 2 people who weren’t following my political updates until they found I was a Miami Dolfan.

12:29 Mackinac Kathy : I have a LOT of people in my personal life who are not aware of the MAckinac Center or what we do.. I’ve turned a few people on to our material and events

12:29 Nicole Sauce : I get all sorts of interest in my chick hatching adventures… turns out lots of SPNers have raised livestock.

12:29 DaveTPPF : Michelle Malkin followed me as soon as I changed my profile photo on 80s day.

12:29 John R Graham : Especially for non-movement followers, people want to know there’s a breathing person behind the message, not just a crazy conservative, don’t they?

12:30 beverly : No body believes that you really run that much, Michael.

12:30 Carl Gipson WPC : Is there an SPN twitter? A place where we can all connect?

12:30 Nicole Sauce : no

12:30 OzarkGuru : Example: @arra is Bill Smith / Ozark Guru – derives from ARRA News Service

12:30 Nicole Sauce : i wasnt

12:31 DaveTPPF : Good job, MQS

12:31 TracieSharp : thanks MQS!

12:31 Mackinac Kathy : Thanks Michael! I’m following you now……

12:31 beverly : Nice job, Michael. thanks a bunch.

12:31 OzarkGuru : Great Job Michael

12:31 John R Graham : Very helpful: Thanks and I hope to meet you in person soon.

12:31 Natasha from NTU : thanks MQS & Nicole!

12:31 Dave Williams : Thanks!  Now I need something interesting to say.

12:31 NickyCheese : MQS in da hiz-ouse!

12:31 jacqueline083 : you’ve convinced me… i finally signed up for Twitter

12:31 DaveTPPF : Hooray, Nicole

12:31 DaveTPPF : Jacqueline: what’s your twitter nickname?

12:31 beverly : Can’t hear you

12:32 beverly : Now I cna

12:32 jacqueline083 : jacqueline_nd

12:32 NickyCheese : There we go.

12:32 jeb : follow jeboelican on twitter

12:32 mqs : My twitter: mqsullivan

12:32 jeb : jebpelican

12:32 mqs : Daniel Greer: daniel_greer

12:32 DaveTPPF : DavidGuenthner

12:32 JLaPlante : Can you filter Sound qualty NOW is excellent.

12:33 OzarkGuru : Hi NickyCheese!

12:33 TracieSharp : I think the sound quality has to do with the camera

12:33 TracieSharp : MQS had a different camera than Nicole

12:33 AtotheK : this was helpful. thank you!

12:33 Grant Callen : later everyone

12:33 Joe : thanks everyone.

12:33 DaveTPPF : MQS has a green screen and studio lighting in his office’

12:34 DaveTPPF : Another piece of advice

12:35 DaveTPPF : Try to find some good social media practitioners to follow.

12:36 DaveTPPF : A couple of times a day, one of them links an article that really helps my understanding of trends, tools, and techniques.

12:36 Denise  SPN : Izzy, didn’t you search and start following all Libertarians and end up with a lot of followers?

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