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All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter
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March 9th, 2010 at 3:25 am
I sat on the review of this excellent book with a long title, All A Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, for some time. I happened to meet Tee Morris at BlogWorldExpo this fall and see where the humor and energy in the book came from. He does an excellent job of guiding the beginner and professional through the phases of Twitter.
His entry chapter What is Twitter (and What It Is Not) lays the groundwork for the reasons most people don’t understand the whats and whys of Twitter and explains them in humor and direct example. For those that still don’t get it, or those using it and don’t get it, this is for you.
After a couple chapters on establishing an account, setting up your profile and the please do’s and please do not’s, he talks of working beyond the website. He does have chapters on outside tools, and I shook my head in amazement he left out EverythingTwitter as a great source to find whatever you need. Yes, I mentioned this to him jokingly in email and he took it in great fun as he must have heard from many people.
Pay special attention to the chapter on The Trouble with Twitter as it does an excellent job of covering the fail whale, issues with some very personal information sharing, signal to noise ratios and dealing with the explosive growth of Twitter and how it affects the technical performance side.
Chapters 10 and 11 cover how to use Twitter for personal and business use respectively and make the most benefit of it no matter how you wish to use it. From communicating with friends and family to promoting products/services, events, conferences, podcasts and more. In all he covers how Twitter is a tool to be used in so many ways and gives concrete examples of each.
Chapter 12 is an eye opener for most that only hear hype around using Twitter. Tee talks about the darker side of what goes on and the dymanics of how we are all interconnected. Who do you follow? Who do you ignore? Should you block? What about spammers? Bots? Incomplete profiles and more. It is succinct and honest about some of the behind the scenes issues that power users see daily.
Mr Morris leaves with why he is on Twitter and how he uses it in daily work and promotion before an appendix of some terms and more tools.
At ~260 pages, this is a must have for those entering social media with Twitter and makes for a clear and concise read with just enough technical information for any level of user. Amazon has it for only [...] right now and I think that is quite the bargain. Published by Que.
Disclaimers: This book was sent to read free of charge through some promo people and I was not obligated to say anything good or bad about it. I actually read the darn thing and enjoyed it, even with how I use Twitter on a daily basis. After meeting Tee Morris I saw some of the drive and determination he had and it made the remainder of the read even more enjoyable as you can place the author with the book.
I also run [...] and shook him fiercely at BlogWorld when he failed to mention us, the largest review catalog of Twitter tools and add-ons. Kidding, I never shook him. He might have tripped, but I am unaware of who did it.
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Rating: 5 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 4:57 am
Twitter is all the rage. It seems to be the new Facebook. Everywhere you see people madly creating 140 character (or less) messages on their Blackberries.
I have to admit that I have been rather hesitant about Twitter. I keep getting images in my mind about receiving messages about what someone had for breakfast or that they were going to the washroom. I know for a fact, I don’t have that kind of time to waste.
However, after reading All A Twitter, I’m beginning to see that Twitter has far more potential. Yes, there are going to be people just wasting time on Twitter but there are also people who really have something interesting to say. The key is discernment, both in writing tweets and in who you choose to follow.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 7:47 am
I am a recently unemployed individual looking to develope a career as an independant designer of knitwear and knitting patterns. As such, I wanted to take advantage of the latest social networking technology available. I looked at a few books on Twitter. I had heard of it, knew of a few people who were already on it, but really had no idea what it was, how it could be used, or how to go about using it. I chose “All A Twitter” because it gives you not only the technical information about Twitter but more importantly the nuances of what Twitter can be and how you can make the most of your tweets.
Tee Morris’s book was a HUGE help! It is written in an easy to use, conversational style. It is arranged in such a way that you can read the beginning, open your Twitter account, and then continue reading as you begin tweeting and gaining experience. This is really like having a friend (a really cool, tech-savy friend) come over for coffee and teach you how to tweet.
Getting started on Twitter and sending tweets is simple. Creating a profile and sending and using tweets in a way that will get you noticed (in a possitive way) and becoming part of a vibrant community is not so simple (unless you have read this book).
Tee explains some of the many, many options available for Twitter related applications in a fair and balanced way so that you can make your own decissions about what to try. He also has tips and tricks scattered throughout. And, most importantly, things to avoid doing so that you do not become part of the ‘noise’ that will lead to being unfollowed or worse yet, blocked.
Like most things in life Twitter is what you make of it. Tee has helped make Twitter and the tweeple I follow a remarkable part of my life both personally and professionally.
You can find me @fearlessknitter and the author is @TeeMonster. I’m sure he would be happy to hear from you (preferably after you have read his book). Use #allatwitter as the hash tag (you’ll understand that too after you read the book).
Rating: 5 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 9:21 am
This book is a solid homerun and a terrific read. It’s written by Tee Morris, a guy that not only knows what he’s talking about, but has been an active member of the Twitter community since 2007. In my opinion, he has plenty of “Tweet Cred.” In about 270 easy-to-read pages, Tee covers it all; from what Twitter is, to more importantly, what it is not, to setting it up properly, taking it on the go while also providing a Ben Franklin “what I like, what I don’t” on a wide variety of desktop clients and apps that have sprung up to support the Twitter community. The book contains thirteen chapters with two appendices.
While I had created a Twitter account months ago, I honestly had done little with it. Why? Beyond “tweeting” that I had just walked my dog, I wasn’t sure what the fuss was about. Seems that most people who initially discover Twitter are either overwhelmed by it or use it primarily as a broadcast medium.
What impressed me the most about this book is that you will quickly realize there are quality people, and Tee is in that vanguard, that care passionately about “building a community” and are not simply typing inane phrases or focusing exclusively on trying to monetizing the Twitter experience. Social media is supposed to be about connecting. Quality of relationships and not sheer quantity of followers, is the name of the game.
I buy a lot of computer books and this is worth the money. Not surprising though, for as long as I’ve been reading computer books (there is no shame in admitting that), Que has been a consistently strong performer. There are tips and tricks in here that I suspect even a hardcore Twitter user will pick up. Check this book out. You will not be disappointed. The only question I had after reading it was “When is Part Two coming?!”
Rating: 5 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 11:19 am
After reading this book, I found that Tee Morris’s approach to twitter was balanced, fair and sound. His perspectives of using twitter for business seem like a breath of fresh air from the other publications that just go about spouting the magnificence of this application and nothing else. Tee tells you about twitter “like it is.” He pulls no punches in telling you what it is NOT and how some people are using it in ways that actually backfire on them, due to their ignorance (or stubbornness).
Especially useful was the chapter on ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA. This approach places the weblebrities, the spammers, the Internet ‘gurus’ and “marketers” into their proper light and helps you to decide whom to follow (and, respecitively, whom to un-follow) so that your twitter experience and presence can be of more value to your followers (and to your company).
Enjoyable is Tee Morris’s style and his personal expression of not only his opinions, but also the pitfalls into which he himself had fallen — so that we don’t do the same. In short, I really took this as a great “lessons-learned” approach in this treatise on twitter. And, yes, I have read several other books about twitter (they were either only how-to books or ‘twitter-love-fest’ themes, unfortunately).
Rating: 5 / 5