In this beginner's guide you'll learn how to Twitter like a pro. Twitter is an extremely fast moving social network that uses microblogging as a way to get instant news/updates. Twitter is called a microblogging platform because you're only allowed to use 140 characters to send your "tweet" (message or status).

If you really didn't care if someone saw what you wrote, you would use a journal and just write for yourself. Which is fine really - although I never succeeded in doing that - did you?

10 social media tips to help you fly with Hootsuite (via www.danmason.co.uk) The great thing about Hootsuite is that it's easy to learn, but scales quickly to become a powerful team tool for professional social media management. It's a Swiss Army Knife for searching, listening, curating, sharing and connecting. It works...

Every blogger wants to write better blog posts. They want more shares, more views, more conversions. But when it comes time to writing blog posts that perform, a lot of bloggers tend to fall short. But why? Great blog posts aren't only interesting to read, they usually follow a certain structure.

You've just been inspired and you're ready to write the blog post you hope will be a hit. The title not might be the first step in your planning process but it's fair to say that most people automatically start thinking about what they will call their hit post.

Frederic Gonzalo I don't know about you, but it sure seems tough to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to social media! Just when you think or feel you've found your comfort zone with Linkedin or Facebook, their platform changes substantially and the mobile application moves on to version 6.9.2 or whatever...

Imagine this; you've got a piece of content or even a product and you want to promote it but you're struggling to get more eye balls on it, get more shares, more traffic or more sales. You know where your audience hangs out but marketing to them directly just isn't working for you.

Guest post by ... originally published at I've been thinking a lot about Twitter recently, both my personal use of it and for the brand I work on @sbarro. For the last year I've been on a Twitter deep-dive and I'd say I'm an intermediate with ~900 followers.

In my post this past Thursday, I promised that today I'd show you how my Principles-to-Practices Framework can transform your social media efforts. Ready? The framework goes like this, from highest-level to most basic: Principles guide Strategy, which guide Tactics, which guide Practices.

By Mars Dorian, Contributing {grow} Columnist The most popular currency in the world is not the Dollar, Euro or Yen. It's common advice. Think about it: Everyone has it in mass, it's prone to "inflation," and you can pick it up about everywhere, even if you don't want it.