| | | | Ready to take the Twitter plunge? | | | Or maybe you already have, but you'd just like to understand it a little better. In either case, Wells Media's social media manager, Ly ('Lee') Short has put together a course to help you get started.
 In this Twitter Basics course, Ly shares her screen and not only shows you the basics, but she also gives you some no-nonsense tips. For example:
• Be human. You're entitled to an opinion.
• Engage.
• Don't feed the trolls.
• Share other's stories.
• Post links or retweet with your comment.
• Use lists to organize accounts.
(Heck, she'll even show you exactly
how to do that.)
| For more tips and tools,
Watch the Whole Video Here | | | | | | | | | | | Advertisers: Would you like to share your knowledge with our marketing and advertising community? We'd love that. Tell us about it. | | | | | | | | | | | Staff Highlight | | | | Ly Short is our Social Media Manager at Insurance Journal. Here are 5 things you may not have known about her: | | | |  | | | | | | | | 1. | My favorite foods are pho and tacos.
Not together. | | | | 2. | I love a good 80s mix; Tears for Fears,
Pet Shop Boys, INXS, Erasure, Hall &
Oates, The Smiths. | | | | 3. | My favorite country is Vietnam.
I love the bustle of the city, the idyllic
quietness of the countryside, not to
mention the street food is amazing.
I still have so much of it to see. | | | | 4. | I've learned never to say never.
I drive a minivan. | | | | 5. | One of my biggest fears is parallel
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