How to Use Twitter to Market Yourself As a Technical Writer?
If you’re to make a single change in the way you market your services as a freelance technical writer, it should be to get on the Twitter – in case you still haven’t. Twitter is a free social networking service through which you can exchange 140-character messages with the whole world at a lightning speed. (Join me at http://twitter.com/technicalwriter ) Let’s say you have 1,000 friends on Twitter. You write a short message. Click SEND and boom! It’s sent to all 1,000 people on your list. I knew there was something to Twitter when, during the 2008 STC (Society for Technical Communication) Annual Conference in Philadelphia, I saw a sign on a billboard at the hotel lobby that asked people to post their Twitter account names so that the conference participants could communicate faster and coordinate group activities. You’d be amazed how people use Twitter not only for personal use but heavy-duty business purposes as well since you can publish LINKS in your Twitter messages. Not only that,
