Sunday, May 31, 2009

Twitter for Business Made Easy

Great MindMap from the Mindjet Folks Simplifies Twitter and Proves Power of Mindmapping

twitter for business mindmap

On the most basic level, it’s easy to explain Twitter in a few bullet points:

* Twitter is a micro-blogging service that you can use from anywhere you can get an Internet connection.
* You sign up and give yourself an identity that lives on Twitter, such as mine–Twitter.com/MadViral.
* You can then post 140 character text messages which may include hyperlinks.
* You can choose to follow fellow members whose ‘ tweets ‘ will show up automatically on your Twitter page.
* Other members can choose to follow you to see what you have to say.
* The heavy hitters on Twitter may have thousands of followers and may post dozens of tweets per day.
* Every Twitter member can pass on or ‘ retweet’ other messages so that the reach of what you have to say is potentially huge and global.
* All of this happens in real time

At this point, you may be thinking, “Okay, I understand that, but what’s the point? Why would I want to do any of that stuff? That’s where this great mindmap created by Mindjet’s Michael Deutch comes into play. It illustrates why you need to care about Twitter for your business–and how to get smart about using it.

First, take a walk through the expanded MindMap to understand more about how Twitter works, 20 business uses, best practices, worst practices, resource sites with links, and more. A few minutes spent with the MindMap delivers a crash course in all business things Twitter.

Click here to view a fully interactive version of the MindMap on the Mindjet eNewsletter page.

1 comment:

@MichaelDeutch said...

Thanks for sharing my map! I built it as I was starting to navigate the maze of Twitter to learn how I could use it for business :) If any of your readers want to know more, they can always follow and tweet me at: http://twitter.com/MichaelDeutch

Thanks again!