Participate in the Twitter stream by retweeting other people’s good tweets, and enrich your own tweets with links and uploaded images. A picture is worth 1,000 words but a tweet of 140 characters to describe that pic is a better combo.
Use directories to find high-quality follows when you are first building your lists of Twitter people
Who do you follow and how do you judge whether or not to follow them? How can your tweets be ones that bubble to the top of the tweet stream?
Twitter Lists Twitter debuted is new Lists feature in late 2009. Lists let you organize the people you follow into groups. It is a way to group Twitterers into common topics to streamline your reading experience. I use this tool to put all my technology follows on one list, while all of my social media [...]
Why Is There an @ on Your Nametag? When you attend conferences and networking events, you may notice that people will write their Twitter handle on their nametag. This is a clever way to communicate their name and promote their Twitter feed. I recommend you do this for any event you attend where you think [...]
How to easily build a list of people to follow, and how to attract others to follow you on Twitter
Decorate your Twitter profile page with your photo and a background image
Profile Settings Before you begin to tweet or follow other people, let’s work on your profile so that others will know who you are and what you are about. When you follow a person, he receives an email from Twitter saying, “Jane Doe is now following you on Twitter” with a link to your profile. [...]
Looking for women in technology to follow on Twitter? Nice list of recommendations here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/who-should-i-follow-on-twitter-women-in-tech/
Background on the creation of Facebook for the social media newbie.