This article is from Social for Business.

Here is a list of ten good reasons why your company needs to get onto Twitter. Read article here.

This article is from TwiTip.

“Having reached 750 followers earlier today and wrote over 6,000 updates, I’m a big fan of Twitter. But over the last week I’ve found myself becoming too much of a fan. Defending Twitter to the death has become a part of my daily life. Across Facebook and forums, I’ve conversed with hundreds of people who “don’t get” Twitter, and people who claim to “get it” but really don’t.” Read rest of article.

This article is from ProBlogger.

“Since starting to use Twitter more regularly I’ve been asked by quite a few readers for tips on how to grow the numbers of Twitter Followers. Today I’m going to give a few tips on how I’ve grown my own Twitter Follower numbers up over 5500 in the last few months.” Read rest of article.

This article is from There’s Something About Translation.

“There are a million articles out there on how to use Twitter for business purposes, most of them based on Chris Brogan’s post on the topic. A few of them are great, most are dross, and a small number go so far as to actively irritate me. In response to the ones that fall into that last category (!), here’s my take on how I think translators, and professionals in general, should NOT use Twitter.” Read rest of article.

This article is from TwiTip.

“I always seem to get a warm-fuzzy feeling when I use up all 140 characters in a concise descriptive tweet. Here are some tips for making the most of those few characters you get to use.” Read rest of article.

This article is from Dosh Dosh.

“Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different mediums like IM, cellphones and the web.

It has a social element as well, as it allows users to befriend and monitor each other’s messages or updates. So what you have here is a publishing tool that can be either public and private.” Read rest of article.

This article is from Good Karma.

“Most of the folks I work with don’t use Twitter, yet–as far as I know, anyway. But as simple as the idea of Twitter is–real-time quick messages out into the ether using 140 characters or less–the way people are using it gives it some possibilities as a business tool.” Read rest of article.

This article is from Twittip.com

“One way to get people to visit your Twitter page is to promote it on your blog or website. I do. When people – especially twitterers – visit your blog, they are directed to your Twitter site as well if your blog has button asking people to follow you on Twitter. Having a twitter widget is useful if your blog readers want to read your twitterings without visiting Twitter. If people want to visit Twitter to see what it has to offer, they can click on your twitscoop icon on your web page.” Read rest of article.

This article is from the Vancouver Sun.

“Gillian Shaw is The Vancouver Sun’s digital life writer, and a tweep. A relative newbie, she remembers the terror of her first ‘tweet’ — oh my goodness, what if someone is reading this? And her most embarrassing mis-tweet, although if you think she’s going to share that with you, forget it. From a failing Twitter grade to ending up among the Twitter elite in Vancouver with a current grade of 99.7 (higher than anything she achieved in her academic ventures), Shaw shares a primer on the pleasures and pitfalls of Twitter … with help from her tweep pals.” Read rest of article.

1. be safe – guard your financial and sensitive information
2. think of social networking sites as online billboards
3. think before downloading email attachments
4. beware of con artists
5. be an active participant
6. create a consistent presence on different Social Media Sites
7. add value to your community
8. build your brand (name/business) slowly
9. make friends with people who have the same interests
10. share your content with other Social Networks
11. use widgets and gadgets to create more networking
12. add an RSS feed to Facebook
13. sign up to MyBlogLog
14. submit your site to StumbleUpon
15. sumbit your site Digg
16. link back to your content
17. a picture is worth a thousand words
18. make yourself accessible
19. don’t get carried away with the technology
20. use good e-etiquette
21. find out how a site works before joining it
22. keep control over the information you post
23. post only information that you are okay with others seeing
24. you will only get out what you put in
25. allow your friends to comment without approval
26. your mindset should be about relationship building
27. be professional
28. make it easy for people to learn more about you
29. you have to be a friend to have a friend
30. balance the personal and the professional