Last week, Brett Flickinger, JD Gershbein, Brian Tomkins and I presented at The Business Ledger’s Newsmakers Forum. Brett started out with strategy. JD covered LinkedIn. Brian presented Facebook for business and I talked about twitter.

Thanks to my intern for sitting through a business buffet lunch, filming my presentation, taking pictures and most importantly, critiquing my “Twitter flight school: not for birds, but for business” presentation.

Getting a college student’s perspective was surprisingly helpful in tuning up my twitter talk …

On the way to a client meeting this morning, I tweeted this update:
wiredprworks: Happy Monday! doing a twitter demo this morning – best tips or hellos welcome

Thanks to everyone who responded on twitter.
Your turn: what’s your favorite top twitter tip?

* bradshorr: @wiredprworks Tip – HootSuite is a great Twitter client. Good luck with your demo, Barbara!

* windycitysocial: @wiredprworks hey class! Here’s my tip: …

This post probably should be in a few parts, but since it is a progression of experiences, I’ll keep the collection together. Speaking of collections, you’ll find my Elysian Hotel images here.

When I got an invitation to attend a private reception at The Elysian Hotel on November 18 I almost said no. With social media events on Monday and Thursday of that week, did I really want to fit a third one in?

Part of the fun of social …

By the end of the year we’re going to talk about lists, not followers. @scobleizer via @wireprworks

At BlogWorld Expo, I found this greeting on my twitter home page: New! Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA) Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a small group receiving this feature, so don’t tweet about it yet!

While covering the social …

The opening keynote sets the conference theme. Kudos to BlogWorld New Media Expo for selecting Laura Fitton, aka @pistachio, to open the conference. Lucky for you – and for me, I took notes.

But first, my @pistachio connection. In spring 2008, Laura was live-tweeting a conference in Boston. I was following her. She mentioned the speaker’s name, which sounded familiar. I Googled the speaker and found that she was someone I knew from high school so I told Laura …

At BlogWorld Expo, Steve Rubel talked about how to use technology to stream your business and your life from email to a site based on a platform called Posterous, pronounced päs-t(?-)r?s. Hope your find these note from Steve’s session to be helpful and informative.

Image: Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer introduces Steve Rubel.

What, exactly is lifestreaming? Here’s one definition . . .

Definition of Lifestreaming
The term lifestream was coined by Eric Freeman and David Gelertner at Yale University …

How does twitter work in corporations?

Thanks to Ragan Communications you can register for a one-day twitter bootcamp to attend in person in Chicago or live via webcast where ever you are.

Disclosures: I am delighted to be the twitter PR speaker for this presentation.  Event design and content shown here developed by Ragan Communications.

Have a twitter PR case study you’d like to share or a question you’d like to ask? Let’s talk it over in the comment box.

Register Online at http://www.ragan.com/Y9BTCH-906CMC to get a special …

Martin Murray, senior corporate news representative for Public Service of New Hampshire started out by talking about how social media is changing news coverage. When a transformer caught on fire, and Martin got there every other person in the crowd had a phone and was updating their own personal networks. His job is to respond to the media, but the media wasn’t looking for the utility reps – they were covering it on their own.

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Here’s a tool that measure sentiment on twitter.

For wiredprworks . . . .

64% positive

33% neutral overall

3% negative

Is that good? Is it better to be controversial?

What I like about Twendz, a twitter tool to explore conversation and measure sentiment . . .

Fast or slow – you set the load pace.

Free – always a good thing.

Lists – if you’re too lazy to set up tweet deck , but want to check in on a …