Learn how to use Twitter before the 24-hour TwitAsYouQuit event that Dr. Scott Olson and I are presenting on Fri., Jan. 16 as part of the Great Worldwide Sugar-Out Challenge.
During the TwitAsYouQuit event — to be held from 12 noon EST on Jan. 16 to 12 noon Jan. 17 — you'll get frequent tweets that provide you 140-character tweets on Twitter about sugar's dangers, micro messages about how you can benefit from kicking your habit, short tips from authors of sugar books on to kick the sweet stuff, etc.
To best take advantage of the TwitAsYouQuit program, I urge you to listen to this fabulous Twitter for Journalists program first.
By the way, although this was designed as a "Twitter for Journalists" event, anybody — whether or not you're in the journalism profession — can benefit from this fascinating program, hosted by Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University School of Journalism's dean of student affairs, new media professor at the Graduate School of Journalism and tech reporter for WNBC-TV.
You'll crack up when you hear Sree's introduction about how they're devoting 90 minutes to a program that's all about writing micro messages only 140 characters long.
FYI, as you'll learn on the show, you can search here (at www.search.twitter.com), then plop in a hash tag" (a # sign) and then write the name of the group or person you're following. In this case, you would put in #columbiaj to learn about who's talking about Sree's fabulous program.
Speakers include:
- Alums Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek senior technology writer (@ahess247);
- Shel Israel, author of the forthcoming Twitterville: Getting Closer to Customers During Tough Times (September), (@shelisrael);
- Daniel Terdiman, senior writer, CNET News.com (@greeterdan).
- Andrew Lei, author of the upcoming book, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (March) @fuzheado
- And Sree (@sreenet), of course, who's the moderator, as noted earlier.
Learn more about the Columbia University site and listen to the Twitter for Journalists program now.