This is a Charity Tweetup: Bring $5 or more to put in the pot. We’ll vote for a recipient.

Charities are listed here.

Event info is listed here.

Hosts, Sponsors and Supporters are listed here.

Follow the action on Twitter at #suntweet

See a list of some attendees here.

Get a Map to the joint, here.

If you have a lame excuse for not being with us in person tonight, @h0neyb will be attempting to broadcast live over the internet at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/suntweet

See you there!

—@carysnowden

…and @startupprincess and Jack_Hadley

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1. Twitter is a micro-blogging site in which you can post articles comprised of 140 characters or fewer.
2. A Twitter account is free. It is easy to start, and only takes a couple of minutes. Start Your Twitter Account here.
3. A ‘tweet’ is a post. Any time you post a new thought, idea, announcement or link, it is referred to as a ‘tweet’. Start tweeting.
4. Twitter is a connectivity tool that acts like a giant conversation. You can read what others are saying, and they can read what you are saying.
5. To monitor what someone is writing, you ‘follow’ them. When you follow someone, their posts appear in your Twitter feed on your Home page. Follow Me.
6. When people are interested in what you have to say, they can ‘follow’ you, too.
7. To follow someone, simply visit their ‘Home’ page in Twitter and click the Follow button under their profile picture.
8. Twitter keeps track of all the people you are following, and those who are following you. Their is a handy stats display at the top of your Home page.
9. To find people or topic threads in Twitter, use http://search.twitter.com. This tool will become your best friend, and is where you can conduct searches and research.
10. There are lots of philosophies on what to post, and who to follow. But there are no rules. Keep it clean and find birds of your feather.
11. You can reply to other people in Twitter in two ways; public and private.
12. To reply publicly, simply include the person’s Twitter name in the post. A Twitter name is preceded by an ‘@’ symbol, and looks like this: @carysnowden
13. A public reply will be seen by all your followers, and might look like this: ‘Hey @jack_hadley, thanks for your comment on this article.’
14. To send a private reply or note, simply replace the ‘@’ symbol with a lower-case ‘d’ and a space, like this: ‘d jack_hadley, don’t tell anyone about this note.’
15. When you get in with a group and want to tag all your tweets so that the group can follow them, you will use a ‘hash-code’ or ‘hash-tag’.
16. A hash code is a special word that you make up and agree to use within your group. Hash codes are not private, and can be used by anyone else, too.
17. A hash code should be unique, and the prevailing convention is to use a ‘#’ symbol in front of your unique word. An example would be ‘#socialht’.
18. I would add this hash code to any of my tweets that I want to highlight for the group.
19. Now, when I go to http://search.twitter.com, I will search for the hash code ‘#socialht’ and be able to see all the comments intended specifically for my group.
20. You can search for other hash codes, or other topics, to learn what people are saying about you, your company, your favorite band, or anything.
21. You can tweet from a computer or phone. I use Twittelator and Twitterific for iPhone, but there are others, too.
22. You may eventually get invited to a ‘Tweetup‘, or a group social where like-minded people come together in person to meet each other and talk in person.
23. Take a look around our site for interviews and panel discussion about how people use Twitter; it is quite amazing, and incredibly useful once you get a handle on things.

Let me know if you have anything to add to this quick list.

PS: Each line in this article would qualify as a ‘tweet’ in length, and represent a typical comment in Twitter.

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Ash Buckles was one of our expert panelists at the CoWork Utah Tweetup last week.

After inadvertently implying that the other panelists may have put our audience to sleep, Ash Buckles settles in with some solid advice on how to use Twitter in daily activity. What he follows, and why he unfollows. He uses Twitter to promote activities, promote work, and speaking events in which he is involved. Ash was both hired and fired in Twitter (lost a contract). He talks about building trust on Twitter, and credits networking for his successful roll in social marketing leadership.

Ash Buckles has become an icon in the Utah social media scene. His interests are in SEO, blogging, web development, mobile, art, and social media. Ash Buckle’s is passionate about new technologies and spends his free time keeping up with the latest marketing and application techniques. A graduate of BYU in Information Systems and Business Management, Ash is an avid Twitter user, as his followers already know. You can find Ash Buckles online at his blog at http://www.ashbuckles.com/

You can follow Ash Buckles on Twitter at: @ashbuckles

Don’t forget to follow Social Hat on Twitter for occasional updates on social media marketing, more videos and some awesome interviews.

Wash. Rinse. Retweet.

Special Thanks to Paul Hadley for recording the event, editing, and posting to YouTube.
Social Hat is Jack Hadley and Cary Snowden. Follow us on Twitter.

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Janet Meiners Thaeler was one of our expert panelists at the CoWork Utah Tweetup last week.

In her introduction, Janet Meiners Thaeler commits herself as a Twitter Addict. She uses Twitter as her own personal news room, and uses it to get traffic to her NewsPaperGrl blog. Twitter has opened doors for her, including getting her a job. She shares a story about her Twitter profile picture, and has purchased artwork online via Twitter. She has achieved success through Twitter and shares some examples of the connections she has made.

Janet Meiners Thaeler’s passion is online PR and social media. She is an internet marketer and writer specializing in SEO online press releases and blogging—writing for Marketing Pilgrim and OrangeSoda’s blog. She has freelanced for newspapers, City Search, & Connect Magazine. “Why newspapergrl?” she says… “I’ve always been a fan of newspapers. I like reading them (preferably offline) and have freelanced for a few.” You can read all about it at http://www.newspapergrl.com

You can follow Janet Meiners Thaeler on Twitter at: @newspapergrl

Don’t forget to follow Social Hat on Twitter for occasional updates on social media marketing, more videos and some awesome interviews.

Wash. Rinse. Retweet.

Special Thanks to Paul Hadley for recording the event, editing, and posting to YouTube.
Social Hat is Jack Hadley and Cary Snowden. Follow us on Twitter.

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Jesse Stay was one of our expert panelists at the CoWork Utah Tweetup last week.

In this introduction, Jesse Stay shows he is even tweeting while sitting on a panel. Jesse credits a number of his business opportunities and relationships to Twitter, including his current business relationship with Guy Kawasaki. Jesse gives some incredible examples of his successes and opportunities created from relationships established via Twitter. “There is a lot of power in followers on Twitter.”

Jesse Stay is a well-known blogger and social media advocate. Famous as ‘The Social Geek’, Jesse specializes in Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Twitter, Open Social, and other technologies that enable businesses to better reach their customers in a viral manner. Jesse Stay has developed and consulted for successful social networking applications, some of which currently have over a million users and appear in the top 10 on Facebook. He co-authored two books about Facebook and created SocialToo for Twitter. Find Jesse Stay online at http://staynalive.com/

You can follow Jesse Stay on Twitter at: @jessestay

Don’t forget to follow Social Hat on Twitter for occasional updates on social media marketing, more videos and some awesome interviews.

Wash. Rinse. Retweet.

Special Thanks to Paul Hadley for recording the event, editing, and posting to YouTube.
Social Hat is Jack Hadley and Cary Snowden. Follow us on Twitter.

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Individual Intros:

• Follow Nate Moller on Twitter or view his intro.
• Follow Mick Hagan on Twitter or view his intro.
• Follow Jesse Stay on Twitter or view his intro.
• Follow Janet Meiners Thaeler or view her intro.
• Follow Ash Buckles on Twitter or view his intro.

And here are the Q&A vids..

Q&A Part One

Q&A Part Two

Q&A Part Three

Thank you to everyone on our panel, and for all of you who came from great distances to join our Tweetup. We look forward to seeing you at the next one.

Special Thanks to Paul Hadley for recording the event, editing, and posting to YouTube.

—Social Hat is Jack Hadley and Cary Snowden. Follow us on Twitter.

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One of the most important components of a successful social media marketing strategy for business is to determine exactly what your story is—then to make it CLEAR and COMPELLING.

With that in place, you must work toward developing an audience that will find your story RELEVANT. And today’s social media tools make it easier to do just that.

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See you soon!

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