Some of my links on my handout might help with some jargon. However, there is SO much jargon. It’s good someone did say “What’s a TweetUp?” (TweetUp= gathering of Tweeters in person, face-to-face).

Regarding copying and pasting links, I follow some who do that, and they have many, many followers, so they are doing something right. Usually they do some @replying in between or add one or two personal touches every now and then. It’s a question of priorities: do you drop Social Media all together because you can’t spell, or do you do it a little? Copying and pasting may be a way to do it a little.

As far as the program is concerned, part of the problem with time was the number of questions the audience had. I’m not sure what the answer is, but answering questions during the presentations certainly ate into the time everyone had.

I’m not sure about your suggestion of copying and pasting links. I find that to be in the realm of talking AT your followers, rather than engaging with them.

BTW, am I imagining it or did you say a little while back that you had difficulties with public speaking? I thought you did a great job, and came across as very enthusiastic!

I would caution all the speakers to be careful with the use of jargon. It’s easy to do, because we use it all the time, especially in the 140 limitations of Twitter. But some people were obviously lost with some terminology. Fortunately, there were people there who were not afraid to ask if they didn’t understand (“What’s a Tweetup?”).

Maybe a sheet with a glossary of common terms might be a useful handout!

Graham.

Yes, we really didn’t have time to address all the many wonderful questions the audience presented in the beginning! I am hoping this Thursday night to pay lots of attention to the early questions to see if I can address some of them when I talk.

One possible way of dealing with Twitter if you are prone to spelling errors is to concentrate on cutting and pasting headlines with links related to your industry. That way you provide a service to followers by giving them information but lessen the possibility of spelling errors.

As far as blogging is concerned, I would encourage any blogger to find someone who is willing to proofread their posts. Even with spellcheck features, it’s still easy to let spelling, typographical or grammatical errors creep in. It’s understandably exciting to want to hit the “Publish” button as soon as you’ve typed the last word. But I think that putting across a professional image is important. Even though my blog is not promoting a business, I found an online friend who was willing to check my posts before I publish.

As far as Twitter is concerned, the immediacy of that medium prevents much checking. But I still review my posts just before I hit Enter. An odd typo isn’t going to really put someone off. If you’re doing it all the time, it is going to have a negative effect, I think.

Perhaps a poor speller might be a good photographer? One could communicate through pictures and spend LOTS of time with spell check to put a few words on each post for the search engines to pick up.