Amanda let off the workshop with a quick overview of the power of Twitter and building a brand on the social network. I then concluded with a presentation of nine tips (and a bonus!) for being more efficient and effective when using Twitter and various Twitter tools. The presentation is embedded below, check below the cut for links to the tools I mention and an archive of the tweets from the workshop this morning (hashtag #dcpowertwitter). Thanks so much to Amanda for inviting me to present, @chinatowncoffee and @sprint for sponsoring coffee and Wi-Fi, and to everyone else who attended!

I mention several tools in the presentation:

• CoTweet.com — great Twitter client, Web-based, excellent tool for scheduling tweets in the future.
• TweetDeck.com — my favorite Twitter client, just fantastic all-around. Can also schedule tweets.
• reader.google.com — the best RSS reader out there, excellent for keeping up with small, unique, personal blogs.
• ManageFlitter.com — excellent Web-based tool for monitoring who you follow, whether they follow back, and for identifying the “quiet” people you follow.
• TweetStats.com — the best charts and statistics you can get for your Twitter account, with lots of great features.
• Klout.com — the only measure of influence I value, provides an in-depth analysis of your Twitter style, content, and engagement.

Thanks so much to @leslysimmons for also sharing with us a fantastic open list of Twitter chats–find it here.

Check out the hashtag archive from this morning’s workshop, and continue the conversation on Twitter!

For anyone interested, my presentation was created using Prezi, which I simply cannot recommend enough. You’ll never use PowerPoint again.

Once again, thanks so much to everyone who attended, and please share this post with your friends! Be sure to click the “like” and “tweet” buttons below, and of course, comment below or tweet at me with any comments or questions.

Work today was good. I won’t delve into that much more because before too long I’m going to be writing blog posts for the American University Career Center about my internship experience, which I’ll crosspost here. After work, I attended my very first ever Social Media Club DC event, and it was fantastic! The event was held at the Consumer Electronics Association headquarters in Arlington and featured two speakers from the CEA, Megan Pollock and Joe Gizzi, as well as Frank Gruber, entrepreneur and co-founder of TECHcocktail, shinyheart and thankfulfor, among others.

But enough links and name-dropping–what did they talk about? Well, fresh back from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, they talked about tech of course! And, naturally, how it all fits in with social media. Joe Gizzi, especially, had some really interesting things to say about the CEA’s social media strategy to build buzz and deal with attendee complaints/suggestions at the conference. He talked about software they use (namely, CoTweet) as well as how they keep track of much of their dizzying analytics (mostly Google Analytics and CoTweet). For the next few days, you can see some of the livestream from the event here on Twitter. Needless to say, it was enlightening and fun, and I’m already looking forward to the next SMC-DC event (which just so happens to be a Social Media Breakfast next Monday morning!).

Anyway, one last thing I’ll leave you with–an entry from One Day At A Time In Al-Anon. No, I’m not crazy. I just picked it up for free at the Social Justice Camp last weekend (they were giving out free books–all in the name of literacy!) because it looked like a fun thing to have on my bookshelf. It provides some inspirational little passages for each and every day of the year, and today’s seemed particularly relevant given my hectic schedule as of late. Here it is:

No matter what the problems are that we’re trying to cope with, a major source of frustration is trying to encompass too much at once. We forget that we need to deal with only one day at a time, and try to crowd too much into the waking hours of that day–or we even extend it beyond the point of weariness. We can get more out of each hour–and accomplish more–if we try to cope with only as much as is possible in that one day.

Appropriate, no? Always learning.