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		<title>Short and Sweet: A Lesson about Using Twitter in Business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got the latest Evernote newsletter, which comes about once a month to regular users like myself. The company has some great news to kick off &#8217;09, not the least of which is the closure of a $4.5 million round of funding. That&#8217;s great news, and they&#8217;ve earned it steady improvements to an innovative [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="clear: both">I just got the latest <a href="http://www.evernote.com/">Evernote</a> newsletter, which comes about once a month to regular users like myself. The company has some great news to kick off &#8217;09, not the least of which is the closure of a $4.5 million round of funding. That&#8217;s great news, and they&#8217;ve earned it steady improvements to an innovative product.</p>
<p style="clear: both">The last note in the newsletter has a telling lesson for businesses who think that Twitter is just another megaphone for broadcasting how awesome your company is:</p>
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<blockquote style="clear: both"><p>As many of you know, we&#8217;re big fans of Twitter. A while back we asked you to tell us what you liked about our @Evernote tweeting and what you didn&#8217;t. The response was clear: <strong>more suggestions on how to use Evernote and fewer links to media coverage. </strong>So, for those interested in the latter, we just launched a second Twitter account focused solely on media and blogosphere coverage.</p>
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<p style="clear: both">Emphasis is mine. There are two lessons here: 1. People want value from corporate communications, especially when it comes through a channel like Twitter where you have to be not only concise, but <em>relevant</em>. And double-especially when your product is a productivity app!</p>
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<li>Twitter is a conversation, not a one-way broadcast, and <a href="http://www.silverspider.com/2009/missing-the-point-twitter-for-seo/">definitely not an SEO enhancer</a>. To misuse it is to hear the gentle sound of interested customers losing interest.</li>
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<p style="clear: both">Let&#8217;s hear it for learning from your customers and responding in action as well as word, as Evernote has here. </p>
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