The most post popular posts relating to Me and My Web Shadow has long been “Some Beginner’s Guides to Twitter“.

This post from Beth Kanter is nice addition to those introductory guides, sharing some exercises from a Colorado non-profit‘s team Twitter learning sessions. 

If you’re learning to use Twitter have a go at some of these, on your own or with a friend or team (take a look at Beth’s post and the comments for more ideas): 

• Find a new hashtag and use it successfully

• Tweet a photo you took with your phone

• Follow 5 new people that interest you

• Schedule a tweet using HootSuite, Tweetdeck, or another service

• Find and sign up for a link that will track your clicks

• Search for a topic or hashtag you are interested in

• Create a Twitter lists

• Reply to someone’s tweet and get them to respond to you

• Use a social media tool to determine your most effective time of the day to tweet

• Gain 10 new followers by following less than 10 people

• Use #FF to list a few people you enjoy following

Another useful approach if you have a large team or workshop session is to get people to share how they use Twitter, the moments when it has saved them time, brought them news first, thrown up an unexpected opportunity.