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Awesome Twitcast.. How You Can Change the World With Your Comment or Tweet
July 31st, 2008
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by Warren Whitlock · Filed Under: Blog Talk Radio · LIVE Webinar · Making Money with Twitter · Social Media · Twitcast
We’ve got a great line up for the TwitCast tonight.
With you on board, it will be even more AWESOME
The TwitCast is a live radio show, hosted on the Internet. Just go to http://TwitCastRadio.com to listen LIVE over the internet. You can get your own free account account so we’ll be able to see your user name and chat with you live during the call. Otherwise, just use this post to share your comments.
If you have a BlogTalkRadio account, it’s that same username… If you are creating a new one.. use your Twitter handle so we’ll all know who’s who. (this isn’t a rule.. you know how we feel about rules.)
Next step will be to Tweet to your followers. The bigger the crowd we get, the better the social experitment will work.
August 1, 2008 4pm Hawaii / 7pm PST / 10 EST Call-in Number: (646) 378-1641 or listen LIVE over the internet using Blog Talk Radio http://TwitCastRadio.com Comment on this post before and during the call using your Twit ID & name so we’ll have an organized place to pull from for the published Twitter Handbook.
Here’s the agenda.. Tweet away on:
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Special guest Rodney Rumford @Rumford will be with us. One of the smartest social marketing strategists on the planet |
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A second guest, Matt Brown @MattSurfs popular speaker on social media from California will also be adding to the discussion on social media |
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@CoachDeb is in the house tonight, back with me to put down a few more idea for our book |
| News of the Twitter Handbook… including a social engineering experience live during the call. | |
You may have seen some of the twitter sized events, promotions and happenings we be doing during the writing of Twitter Handbook.
Now’s YOUR chance to get in on this .. big time.
Now, one IMPORTANT REQUEST.
We need our feedback. The experience start now
Before you leave this page, place a comment here. In your comment, share anything you think might help bring more people into the movement, onto the TwitCast, or into our group.
If you can’t think of a great idea, post a comment about other comments, or ASK A QUESTION to help us clarify and refine this experience.
Your input is important. .. you see why when you join us tonight.
@allaboutenergy People with Influence don’t DO, they just BE because their influence brings things to them. Be a person of Influence! How? GIVE! GIVE! GIVE
Change the world with your tweet! GIVE! GIVE! GIVE! stop looking at what you can GET and look at what you can GIVE!!!!!!!!
140 characters is a great start to a big GIVE!
nice article, thanks for sharing.
Warren – thanks for keeping up updated. I do hope that one week you will be able to run the programme a little earlier for those of us in Europe who would like to join you live and participate in the call – I know it’s difficult with the time zones. The show today will be at 3am for me and even I as a passionate adopter of social media can’t make the call today.
Hope you have fun.
However having the show download into my iTunes means I never miss it!
Aloha Krishna De,
Thanks 4 your request to have an earlier TWitCast show.
I’ll talk to Warren & look at alternate dates & times so all our UK friends can participate in these fun, interactive TwitCasts.
Very curious to see how this will go. You guys seem to be the leading edge of Twitter.
Just as I was going to bed at 12:15 AM after a 20 hour day, @WarrenWhitlock left a simple tweet: “@DrTodd did you add your comment? http://tinyurl.com/5b72na”
Not one to dismiss a prompting from a friend, I jumped on over here and thought I would leave something pleasant, maybe even helpful, but definitely brief.
That was 4 1/2 hours ago.
Not sure what to write, I decided to start with TwitCastRadio, which is a medium, of course, for the huge collaboration with Warren and @CoachDeb at the center of creating The Twitter Handbook. Brevity certainly escaped me, but it turned out be a fascinating self-exploration of my feelings about Twitter and the personal rewards I get from it every day.
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There’s something much greater than the individual components of TwitCastRadio, something that by itself may not seem profound, but when combined with other elements what results is quite remarkable indeed.
Let’s break down the parts, for sake of interest, in reverse order.
Radio. Yep, we’ve all got one or more. Talk, music, news, are the elements, but they’re all thrown at the listener like a baseball to an outfielder. Most listeners aren’t attentive enough to catch the ball, let alone duck. So they’re bonked in the nose, dazed and distracted by a mass of sound whose sole purpose is to fill a void, that void being silence.
Cast. OK, here we have two brilliant thinkers and conveyers of modern social interplay. @WarrenWhitlock and @CoachDeb are the beaters in the blender, the propeller in the water that cogitates the calm. They prod and provoke and leave metaphorical points that prick the listener’s skin and burrow in like the quill of a porcupine in the mouth of a hounddog who thought he’d found a new shimmering chew toy.
And Twit. What kind of word is twit? A half-twit, a lawyer’s ‘to wit,’ or the spherical object of desire when we finally decide to get a round “toit?” We’ll leave this further unexplored for now since enigmas add a nice vibrancy to the ponderance.
So, we have radio, we have a cast of scintillating characters, and we have a twit, the meaning of which we are not quite sure.
But what makes this recipe different is the addition of a copious quantity of a rare breed no longer seen on many streets or, for that matter, in many beds: the Web-2-human, often abbreviated as dude, bro, chicka, or one who rocks.
For through malleable tempering and bristlingly energetic evolution, this ingredient has been specially bred with 3 target outcomes: 1) To watch what others say and do, and from that glean an insight previously obscured; 2) To share transparently, free of any guise; and 3) Through the freedoms engendered by this behavior, create not just a community, but in essence a living, breathing, ever changing lifeforce of its own.
In this entity one cell connects to another for work or for play or even for thought-growing, and soon infinite pockets of these cells swirl through the organism like eddies through a mountain stream, gathering new cells while freeing others, connecting over and over again, to the point where accomplishments become greater, the sparks of intellect ignite burgeoning thought, and the indefatigable magnetic force of the human heart once again attracts instead of repels.
This last ingredient, of course, is the very essence of social networking. It is the thousands or millions of people who allow themselves to grow because of this magical garden of relationship and, in turn and through their own actions, catalyze similar occurrences in others.
And what of that word, twit? Well, it is the fundamental syllable of Twitter, of which we are all participants, and the reason Twitcast Radio was born. Perhaps differently from all other vehicles of social networking, Twitter provides us with an incessant and vibrant flow of people, thought, conversation, current events, perspective, humor, and excitement. And a great this is that it can be used as a person wiggling his finger under a bathroom faucet, as a garden hose providing nourishment in large but controlled quantities, or like a person who jumps into the immense stream of a firehose and is relentlessly and joyously taken to wonderful new places.
Or, as those who just don’t get it, it can be used not at all. Those people don’t think of it as a loss so they really aren’t worse off for not using it. They just won’t have the chance to be better off for using it.
Most of us who do understand just grin because we know that it’s there for the taking, and also for the giving. Because when the giving comes first, well, let’s just say it’s really nice being wet.
@DrTodd
http://www.MapYourAptitude.com
Will there be a link where those of us who can’t attend can hear the Twitcast later? (Fingers crossed.)
@gayle
You can always hare the latest show at http://TwitCastRadio.com
@DrTodd
I’m going to quote you on “Free of guise” comment.
Thanks for that lovely piece
Sorry, I don’t have a web site yet. I am just now getting ready to join Facebook, as that seems to be the way to go. However, there are still many things I don’t know how to do yet, i.e., I don’t even know how to link my PayPal account to my Facebook account (actually, I don’t understand how to ‘link’ anything!) Twitter??
I would like to join you in this endeavor, but I wouldn’t even know how to begin. Sorry,I’m such a novice at this. The one thing I do know extremely well is how to write, so I will be putting my non-fiction book on Facebook within a couple of day. And by the way, I will be using the pen name of Christine Powers.
Best of luck tonight.
Christine
I’m all for “social experiments”! Lead the way.
Linda M. Lopeke @smartstartcoach
http://www.linkedin.com/in/smartstartcoach
I’m not sure if I can imagine one of my Tweets changing the world, but I can tell you how MY world was changed just by one Tweet.
Like many others, I had avoided joining Twitter because upon first
glance it appeared as nothing more than chaotic confusion. However after reading so much about it I decided to “give it a try” in May of this year. I had absolutely no contacts on Twitter when first joining. but eventually found my way to @LisaPreston who graciously became my first follower. (thank you Lisa)
While reading my Twitter stream one day, I saw a reply that Lisa had sent to someone who was terribly concerned because her dogs had over-indulged on Chocolate. I too had experienced this with my dog, so I offered my hope that her dogs would soon recover.
That was my first contact with @CoachDeb – and it became the tweet that changed my world.
After becoming one of my followers, Deb apparently saw something in me that I had not recognized in myself and began recommending that her followers follow me. Many of them did which has since led to the creation of numerous friendships and contact with people that I had only hoped to someday “meet”.
Through what I call, “Deb’s tutoring tweets”, TribalSeduction.com, the book that she and @JPmicek authored together, “Secrets of Online Persuasion”, the Twitter Handbook and my personal favorite – the TwitCast Radio shows, I have learned more about “doing it right” than I ever could have imagined. I know that my social media adventure has just begun, and with Warren, JP and Deb at the wheel, I’m ready for the ride!
My sincere thanks to you all.
Sharon McPherson
@SharonMcP
Hi,
I’m really new to Twitter — I signed up this week and I have not been able to figure out how to do anything but post my own tweets. How do you tweet your followers? How do you post @someone? Is this info going to be in the Twitter Handbook?
Erg. I’m usually a lot more savvy than this.
- Carma
Are you NEW on Twitter?
Do this first..
1) go to http://Twitter.com
2) find the BIG RED BUTTON that say “Watch a
Video”
3) fill in a form with name, email and choose
a password
4) click on http://Twitter.com/warrenwhitlock
and find the gray FOLLOW button.. click that
button to follow me
5) Send me a “Tweet” by using the @ in
front of my name — @warrenwhitlock to
make sure I get it.
Your life will never be the same again.. and that’s a good thing
Consider putting attention grabbing headline-like information into the first forty characters of any important tweet you send because many people will(as @ed_dale has suggested) be reading your tweets via Google Reader or some other rss feed reader and scanning the headlines in their feed messages to quickly find the good ones to star or share.
I started scanning as Ed suggested and it quickly dawned on me that if I want to send an important tweet to my followers, it may easily get lost in a sea of their incoming tweets if I don’t maximize the first forty characters of my tweet.
I want to thank Sharon McP for pretty much bullying me into the world of social marketing and particularly to twitter – for years she and I *got* the concept of PEOPLE vs. Customers or Subscribers
and put our personalities into everything we did but had no real back-up or peers that we could really relate to as most we came across were so busy doing BUSINESS we often wondered if they WERE real people. I am so glad this concept has become popular, it DOES work!
@CoachDeb, @WarrenWhitlock, @Rumford and @mattsurfs, thank you for the excellent Twitcast this evening.
I learned of some great resources for getting more value and enjoyment out of my Twitter experience.
Thaks again.
Sharon McPherson
@SharonMcP
@coachdeb @WarrenWhitlock 4 http://twitterhandbook.com/ Amazing historic use of Twitter by Congress after power shut off http://tinyurl.com/5hbzqd
Two Congressional Tweeters:
http://twitter.com/johnculberson “We demonstrated the power of a real time network of free people.”
http://twitter.com/petehoekstra
No matter your politics, this was certainly a world-changing use of Twitter!
Learning more about Twitter all the time thanks to you all. Appreciate all of your hard work.
Leslie
AWESOME information shared on this program… I will need to listen again & again to get all the TIPS to help me become “follow-worthy” for that is definitely my goal…
Thank you Coach Deb & Warren to putting together this atmosphere & for the Twitter Handbook!
ALL The BEST!
_cmw
messages need to be internalized and audio format is an excellent additional medium to spread knowledge…thanks and great effort!
thnx
MD
http://twitter.com/donovinsbrain
p.s I was so impressed with this article I added a link to it on my Squidoo…
http://www.squidoo.com/TweetYourBlog
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Serendipitous to find this post today… found it because I am on your email list. I spent hours yesterday writing a blog post on how to use twitter for greening the earth. It’s at:
http://simplegreenliving.com/community/how-to-use-twitter-for-greening-the-earth/
This site is put together well!