Twitter biographies might be the ultimate creative-writing challenge. Smart ass blogging mom. The only person on Twitter who doesn’t claim to be a social media guru. Do you have a favorite Twitter bio?  humor twitterYou have 160 characters to spin your personal story!  Here are 20 great mini-biographies that caught my eye and stole my heart.  Enjoy! QueenRania. mum and a wife with a really cool day job…. Glinner. apologise in advance. oilman. Recommended by 4 out of 5 people that recommend things. TheMadHat. AllisonBatof. BittrBetty. maxxhendriks. MORE >>

We have all seen the lackluster corporate blog. Corporate blogs are increasingly standard in B2B organizations. Some companies even have an entire suite of blogs. However, for every great corporate blog, there are a dozen corporate blogs that just shouldn’t be. If your corporate blog is just promoting your company and your service, you probably need a new website before thinking about a blog again. This blog doesn’t develop an audience. This blog loses both a source of traffic and means of discovery. ‘Nuff said. MORE >>

There are lots of success stories and case studies documenting business success through Twitter. 1) Using Twitter search and other simple listening tools, monitor real time conversations about your brand that can assist your marketing and management teams in seeing what is really being about your company today. There 2) Customer service is a popular use of Twitter by many companies and other organizations. When people are “calling you” on Twitter, are you picking up the phone? He felt he knew me through my Twitter posts. Facebook, etc. MORE >>

I’ve been very active on Twitter for about four years now and I would say the aspect that has changed the most in that time is the explosive popularity of Twitter Chats. Twitter Chats have become an important networking and sales tool. In fact, you can even make money off of Twitter chats. So let’s take a deep dive into this important social media trend. The idea behind a Twitter Chat is very simple. Yes, you can make money from a Twitter chat! When the chat is scheduled to happen, you can search for the designated hashtag in Twitter. MORE >>

Does it pay to be honest on Twitter? ” In the past, I’ve written a blog post about my life in social media each time I hit a milestone on Twitter. So, to the best of my knowledge, all 50,000 of those folks in my Twitter audience are real people. I’ve gone back and forth about whether it is worth the effort to evaluate every Twitter follower. So far, I have taken some pride and comfort in knowing that there is nothing fake about my Twitter audience. But they may look at 100,000 Twitter followers and decide that I am an authority. MORE >>