Howard Rheingold's tips on making value out of Twitter


	Howard Rheingold's tips on making value out of Twitter
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/88b81588-6d46-41b3-90f4-ea95e5648f1c/E4033E58-7EBB-449C-A3DD-52AF923839A4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/" href="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smartmobs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">Tuning and Feeding: My best practices for getting the most out of Twitter</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/"><SPAN class="al">by <A title="Posts by Howard Rheingold" href="http://www.smartmobs.com/author/howard/">Howard Rheingold</A> 				</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">I think successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">You have to tune who you follow. I mix friends who I know IRL and whose whereabouts and doings interest me, people who are amusing</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">, people who are knowledgeable about a field that interests me</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">, people who regularly produce URLs that prove useful </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">, extraordinary educators</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">When it comes to feeding my network, that comes down to putting out the right mixture of personal tweets</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">, informational tidbits</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">, self promotion</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">, socializing, and answering questions. It’s particularly important to respond to people</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">I also try to be a little entertaining once in a while</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/08/tuning-and-feeding-my-best-practices-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/">you have to spend some time tuning and feeding if Twitter is going to be more than an idle amusement to you and your followers (and idle amusement is a perfectly legit use of the medium).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E4033E58-7EBB-449C-A3DD-52AF923839A4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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