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Active Rain and Twitter- Spark Good Deeds- Referrals and Friendships!

How do you work Active Rain and Twitter together? I spend most of my time networking on Active Rain and right next to that is Twitter. I absolutely love Twitter, not as much as I love Active Rain but it comes in second in effective social networking strategies.

In a post a little later on this week I will give you some tools to use with Twitter to make your Twitter networking more effective and take less time.

Today I want to share with you a great story to illustrate how you can make it rain on Twitter too.

I noticed a post by Dave Keys a while back. I was drawn to his blog because he is a Photographer/website designer and knows about SEO which I love to teach and I am always learning more about. I wrote a comment on his post on Active Rain. He must have come to my blog at some point because he started following me on Twitter and then I followed him back.

While I was on his blog, I read his profile and visited one of the websites he had built for a client of his highlighting a great rental in Hawaii with absolutely wonderful photography. His work was quite impressive. The photography on his website shows his talent well.

One day on Twitter one of my followers wrote a tweet about how he needed to get a website built. By the description of what this person was looking for it seemed to match to Dave's style. Immediately Dave Keys came to mind so I introduced the two of them to each other.

This is an example of how you can pay it forward on Twitter. Paying it forward is a huge way to get ahead on Twitter and to get noticed because when you go out of your way to help others- others take notice and will want to then help you. It is the same formula for newbies to use on Active Rain.

Dave and I retweet each others' tweets and make a comment here and there @ each other.

One day I was working on getting my grandfather's video that he had made before he died that he wanted to share with all of us and his many friends at his memorial service. It was in a format that my pc nor my mac would take- it would not load to youtube which is where I wanted to host it so that all my relatives could view it.

The normal thing for me to do now when I am stuck is to send out a tweet about it.

So I did. Well, Dave Keys read that tweet and being the great producer/photographer that he is- he offered through a tweet to help me. He said he could take my movie and reformat it so that I could upload it to youtube.

I sent the movie file to box.net and shared the file with Dave Keys. Dave then downloaded that file and reformatted the video then uploaded it to his website, gave me the file name to go and grab. Then I was able to finish the post I wrote in memory of my grandfather who just passed away this past July at the age of 95 from lung cancer.

If you are using Twitter as a vehicle to just announce your blog posts I strongly suggest that you turn off your Twitter updater on Active Rain and anywhere else you blog and send out an auto Tweet- announcing your blog posts. You will not get followers that way and the ones you do get will end up being spammy folks who want to sell their wares before they developed a relationship with you. I will show you some ways in which to quickly pay it forward that Twitter folks will adore you for.

More on Twitter a bit later. Check out Dave Keys on Active Rain!

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Posted by Nestor & Katerina Gasset Realtors® Wellington Florida Luxury Homes on 10/12/2009 10:00 AM

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31 Comments on Active Rain and Twitter- Spark Good Deeds- Referrals and Friendships!

OCT

Active Rain and Facebook is where I spend most of my time. Facebook is more for family and friends although I have set up a business page.

Katerina - great stories to share and how true...I still am in the 'discovering' mode with Twitter...there is something very warm about it...I like meeting and talking in little bites...I have a lot to learn and am waiting for your follow up...

With smiles,

Bo in Yukon

Judi- I like facebook. It took me a while with Facebook since I do not remember anyone from my youth. I never made friends very well, was very shy. The friends I did make are not the friends I would want today:) Anyways, I reinvented myself a couple of times. I use facebook to network but it is so much more crowded than Twitter. I like the smoothness of Twitter.

Bo- We have made some buyer contacts with horse people from other parts of the country. I have embraced Twitter even though in our neck of the woods, Twitter has not caught on. I learned how to make contacts in other parts of the country.

Hi Katerina: This is good advice - always beeter to give than to receive and it usually pays off anyway!

Katerina --- there you go again --- fantastic advice --- my two favorite forms of social networking are Active Rain and Twitter.

Mama Liz

Hi Katerina!
First, I am so sorry to hear about your grandfather. It always is sad to lose such important people in our lives.

This is what the Rain is all about...helping each other. Dave sounds terrific...a good guy all around.

I guess I still have not got to grips with Twitter, so I have done as you said and turned off the automatic feed from AR. You mentioned this on the Realbird webinar as well. So far my Twitter followers seem to be all agents. I spend too much time on AR to give it my all anyway. Thanks for the advice.

Hey Katerina, thanks for the mention! I had just stopped by to pick up the link to your blog to pass along to a new AR member when I noticed my name on your blog.

Your point about paying it forward is so true. I just got an tip from a fellow photographer on Twitter that inspired me to do a video tutorial on photoshop layers and masks that would be easy to follow. It should be up in another 10 minutes or so.

Katerina, you're right. What amazing photos he takes!

OCT

Katerina - I am with you. I'm a big supporter of Twitter, although I have not been on as much lately as I use to be. If worked correctly, Twitter can be a useful tool.

Katerina,

Great post distinguishing how you use Active Rain and Twitter. I use both though I am trying to figure out how to build a return on the Twitter. I am definitely getting results from Active Rain and Facebook. Thanks again.

Jeremy Williams
Keller Williams Realty NE
Kingwood, TX
www.williams4yourhome.com

I agree, don't use the auto syndication. I do use SocialOomph to tweet later, but it is more personable and also I have it set up that any Retweets, Replys or Direct Messages come to my phone and that is important to respond to if you want people to follow you.

Todd Clark - www.LivingBeaverton.com

OCT

Hi Katerina - I agree with turning off the auto-post feature for Twitter. By being actively present on the site, even just for the time it takes to write a few tweets, we benefit so much more. Good ideas hear on listening and paying it forward, too.

Hi Katerina - I HAVE to use your most excellent post in today's Scavenger Hunt! Kudos to you on a great post!

Thanks Katerina - Thanks for the post. I have toutinely been automatically posting my ActiveRain blog posts to Twitter. I have developed a following because of it. Plus, the "marriage" between ActiveRain and Twitter will give your blog posts even more Google juice!

Thanks for this. I am including your blog in my AR scavenger hunt.

Very helpful information. I am including this in my scavenger hunt also!

Katerina - What a great example of how Active Rain & Twitter work hand in hand. Twitter is not something I've embraced as much as I should and really need to get on the band wagon with this.

OCT

There is some great advice here. Thank you and just in time for the scavenger hunt :o)!

Katerina - I love how Twitter and ActiveRain complement each other. We have had similar experiences and have gotten to know our ActiveRain friends better through Twitter as well. Thanks for the post.

-M

Thank you.

Interesting twist on AR and Twitter working together, but not via the auto - notifier.

This is so timely. I'm way behind on using Twitter. Will catch up when we start to have blizzards. Thank you.

Katerina,

I am using this post for the current Scavenger Hunt. I could have used your blogs for several of the items there. Unfortunately, the rules say I can only use one of yours.

Take care!

I'm still learning how to use Twitter effectively and this blog is very helpful. Thanks!

I am glad that many of you are using this post in your scavenger hunt! That is great! I can not paricipate as I have been under the weather and super busy at the same time this week. Need to catch up on blogging!

OCT

Great stories about people responding direcly to you via Twitter. I have been that successful yet. Maybe I am writing the wrong kinds of tweets?

Thanks for the real world stories of how you integrate the two. I've heard that google doesn't like copied material, so I'm curious as to how that is addressed, or is it a concern at all?

Katerina- I've been trying to figure out why I'm on Twitter and how I can make it work for me. Thanks for your post.

Great information I always thought Twitter was for the very young with nothing to do but ask "What are you doing". Now I will reconsider. I love you Join Activerain button, where did you get it?