Spreading the Transforming Power of Improvisation

Using Twitter to Promote Your AI Business -what is your twitter name?

For those of you who aren't yet on Twitter, I'd highly recommend setting up an account. Twitter falls into the genre of 'microblogging' and is a cross between blogs and chats --in that you leave very short messages (140 char max) and people can reply to you using an "@leifhansen xyz" in the beginning of their message. It's an amazing 'nowsourcing' tool and is growing ridiculously fast thanks to a variety of reasons and being a media darling.

Many people wonder how/why Twitter can work for business, and its a good conversation, but let me point you to one excellent article/discussion on Biznik that already exists. Search 'twitter' in their articles section for more.

Here's a great simple, short video to explain things for you as well.

You can find me (Leif Hansen) on twitter - please say hi and follow me (let me know your AIN connection) so I can follow you back.

Please add your own twitter name to this discussion so we can find, follow and support each other.

Lastly, when tweeting about applied improv please use the following 'hashtags':

#improv for improv in general
#appliedimprov for any applied improv or AIN related info
#appliedimprov09 (or 08, 10, etc) for AIN annual conferences

Enjoy, and I look forward to hearing you on twitter and seeing you at the next conference!
-Leif

Tags: appliedimprov, conferences, hashtags, howto, twitter

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Permalink Reply by Bård Brænde 17 hours ago: TwitterID curiousbaard; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rich Cox on November 12, 2009 at 1:35pm: Appliedimpro09 takes so long to type an eats 15 characters from 140. I started using ain09 for conference discussion esp. Moble. Thoughts?

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@improvnotebok
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Permalink Reply by Leif Hansen 3 hours ago: Most practical thought: continuity with what been used. I think the other reason we decided it was that, marketing wise, "appliedimprov" as a tag 'says' more than ain to those who are new. But next year we can shorten it, no biggy ;); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gregg Fraley on November 4, 2009 at 3:50am: My twitter id is @greggfraley; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pat Caporuscio on October 22, 2009 at 2:52pm: mine is ecastactors, casting actors in Michigan for testimonials; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Frans Bosch on October 18, 2009 at 2:18am: ...and my twittter name is takkenwerk1; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stuart Reid on October 2, 2009 at 8:49am: My twitter name is SReid; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Drew Tarvin on September 20, 2009 at 9:15am: i'm @humorthatworks; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carla Rieger on August 13, 2009 at 12:25pm: mine is "carlarieger"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Belina Raffy on July 13, 2009 at 2:39pm: Hi Lovely TweetPeeps - got 2 - 'BelinaRaffy' and 'Maffick'.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Erik van der Liet on July 10, 2009 at 10:43am: Hi Leif, my Twitter name is improvisation and we're already connected!; ▶ Reply to This