If you’re one of the millions of people using Twitter to share what’s on your mind, you know what a challenge it is to stand out among the crowd. To some, Twitter’s a cocktail party. To others, it’s a soap box. But to the majority of its users, Twitter’s more like an uncontrollable scrum in which everybody is competing for a greater share of the discussion.
But it doesn’t have to be that way, not if you do as much listening as talking on this social media communications platform – and, when you do put yourself out there in 140 characters or less, you pause before you post.
That’s right, like a good conversationalist, the last thing you want to do is come across as loud and insensitive, vain and inattentive, crass and inarticulate.
The truth is, to be successful on Twitter is really as easy as being mindful of the “Six Ways to Make People Like You” featured in Dale Carnegie’s classic book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and explained in this short video…
This “blog post on video” was recorded on September 6, 2009 at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn Grist Mill in Sudbury, MA. It’s an adaptation of a post I wrote earlier this year called “How to Make People Like You on Twitter,” which you can read in its entirety here.
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Wise words all. Some feedback on technique. Put the camera on a tripod, or use an athlete to move with the emotion, rather than sway with the wind. It is a subtle difference but vast in the delivery through the web. You don’t need to refresh the screen as much, so your picture (already a beautiful setting) look even better.
I know you where glasses and that always presents a lighting problem, but you do need to have a catch light in your eye in these back light situations. It brings the focus forward to the words and communication.
Will you work your way through all the classic business books. I am out if there is a Ron Hubbard segment.