Drew B's take on tech PR

Blogging my #twitterconf presentation and slides: "Twitter will kill PR as we know it"

Today I had the pleasure of doing a talk at #TwitterConf - a conference for communicators all about Twitter. My talk was about how Twitter has impacted PR and what the future holds. My hypotheses: 

Twitter is not a destination - it's a gateway to the rest of the web

Old PR will die out and a new set of skills and practices emerge

[and I lay out a framework and a mechanism that I use, which I think will be part of the future PR person's essential toolkit]

Here are my slides from today, hope you enjoy:

Twitter and PR - nail in the coffin or silver bullet

View more presentations from Drew Benvie.

25 new Twitter keyboard shortcuts #newtwitter

New Twitter launched in the last week (read all about it on the 33 Digital blog here). Trying it out it struck me quickly that the new look and feel is more like a Gmail or Tweetdeck feel than a stream of updates. So I tried using keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the content. Guess what. It works. 

So here are 25 keyboard shortcuts I've found that work, for you to use in  New Twitter. Enjoy the speedier surfing. 

1. J - moves the highlighted tweet down one tweet 
2. K - moves up a tweet
3. Space - moves screen down
4. Shift-Space - moves screen up
5. Shift H - top of screen
6. Shift R - replies to the tweet you're hovering over
7. Shift F - favourites the tweet you're hovering over
8. Shift T - retwets the tweet you're hovering over
9. Enter - opens tweet to the right hand panel
10. F - favourites that tweet (star)
11. R - replies to that tweet
12. T - retweets that tweet
13. Enter again - closes opened tweet
14. M - opens 'Message' in a pop-up window
15. Esc - closes 'Message' pop-up window
16. N - opens new tweet in pop-up window (Esc closes again)
17. / - goes to search
18. Shift H - goes to home
19. . - refreshes tweets
20. g then m - go to inbox
21. g then r - go to replies
22. g then f - go to favourites
23. g then p - go to your  profile
24. g then u - go to a person's profile
25. g then h - go to home