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cial Media—Continued from page 7) do you go from here? If you are not a
social media guru, there are abundant
messages of 140 characters or fewer. As books and websites to help you—as well
you can imagine, Twitter has limited use as Toastmasters who know how to use all
as far as long discussions go; however, it is of these tools.
a great tool for sending short messages. If Another option would be to talk with a
you add the use of hashtags (#), to follow local high school or community college
subjects or trends, it can be very useful. about using students to get set up. They
For example, active Twitter users who are often looking for projects for class
attend conferences will “live tweet” pithy assignments. Plus, of course, you have the
comments made by speakers or tweet out added benefit of letting young people
highlights. Users can then go back and know about your club.
use the hashtag for a given gathering to
retrieve the highlights. One recent Karen O'Keefe joined Toastmasters in 2009, and is a
example was #wltm (for the World’s member of Babble-On, Marylhurst, and Competitive
Largest Toastmasters meeting). Speakers PDX. She is currently serving as the
Downtown (Division F) Governor.
District 7: https://twitter.com/d7tm. When
you first look at this page, you will see that
anything you tweet to @d7tm will get
posted to the district feed. However, if you
look closely, you will see that local leaders
often tag @thesquarepdx or #portland to
spread the message to a larger audience.
International: https://twitter.com/
toastmasters. You can learn about a
variety of subjects through this Twitter
page. It’s a good idea to visit there and
see what kinds of hashtags people use.
#Toastmasters is an obvious one;
#clubcoach is less obvious, but is useful if
you are a club coach.
Now What?
Now that you have an idea of GROUP $R7A7T/EE:ACH
the kinds of social media 7 FOR
support available to you
through Toastmasters, where
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social media guru, there are abundant
messages of 140 characters or fewer. As books and websites to help you—as well
you can imagine, Twitter has limited use as Toastmasters who know how to use all
as far as long discussions go; however, it is of these tools.
a great tool for sending short messages. If Another option would be to talk with a
you add the use of hashtags (#), to follow local high school or community college
subjects or trends, it can be very useful. about using students to get set up. They
For example, active Twitter users who are often looking for projects for class
attend conferences will “live tweet” pithy assignments. Plus, of course, you have the
comments made by speakers or tweet out added benefit of letting young people
highlights. Users can then go back and know about your club.
use the hashtag for a given gathering to
retrieve the highlights. One recent Karen O'Keefe joined Toastmasters in 2009, and is a
example was #wltm (for the World’s member of Babble-On, Marylhurst, and Competitive
Largest Toastmasters meeting). Speakers PDX. She is currently serving as the
Downtown (Division F) Governor.
District 7: https://twitter.com/d7tm. When
you first look at this page, you will see that
anything you tweet to @d7tm will get
posted to the district feed. However, if you
look closely, you will see that local leaders
often tag @thesquarepdx or #portland to
spread the message to a larger audience.
International: https://twitter.com/
toastmasters. You can learn about a
variety of subjects through this Twitter
page. It’s a good idea to visit there and
see what kinds of hashtags people use.
#Toastmasters is an obvious one;
#clubcoach is less obvious, but is useful if
you are a club coach.
Now What?
Now that you have an idea of GROUP $R7A7T/EE:ACH
the kinds of social media 7 FOR
support available to you
through Toastmasters, where
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