Nestivity anyone?

I have just been trying out a new twitter tool (as you do on a Saturday afternoon!)

Nestivity is a way to turn tweets into discussions.

I have a myriad other things to do but on Saturdays if I happen to give in to my work ethic and turn on my laptop, I allow myself some free range reading and learning time. Although there is a load of other work piled up, this weekend time is important for me to learn new things and experiment.

So, rather than writing blogs for my clients, updating the website, writing that next sales email, I gave in to temptation and allowed myself to get sidetracked with a new product.

So, how best to use Nestivity? There wasn’t a lot of existing content to use as a reference, so, as usual, I just dived in.

I think a lot of people are scared of doing things wrong on social media, but I think you just have to experiment. If it doesn’t work, then you just stop doing it.

I recently wrote a book targeted at authors called “How to Tweet Your Book” and have just started to market it. It’s a huge learning curve.  (By the way it’s on Amazon here)

One of the first things I did was to open a twitter account in the name of the book, so that I could target authors. (@tweetauthors)

Originally I used my personal account but then realised that authors would be worldwide and would not be interested in my many Norwich  tweets.

The downside to this is that I have written a book about How to Tweet Your Book with an accompanying Twitter account that doesn’t  yet have an amazing number of followers.

“Patience, patience,” I keep telling myself.

Having managed to write and self-publish a book when working on it only on weekends, I can’t expect everything else to suddenly fall into place.

When trying out the beta version of Nestivity I chose to use my @tweetauthors account as it is very niche, and has a lot of opportunity for discussions relevant to authors.

I love being one of the first to use a new platform or tool like this as it gives you access to thought leaders and influencers before everything is drowned out in the noise.

My first attempt at a Nestivitiy discussion was “Should you open a twitter account in the name of your book or in your personal name?”

If you have any views on this matter please feel free to join in the discussion here.

If you’re interested in Nestivity then there is a good introduction here.

Author: Sara Greenfield