Twitter Spy in Action: Favorite Tweets From 5 Social Media PRO’s

I had a blast reading through the fave tweets of many social media gurus, including Ann Handley, Chris Brogan, Jay Baer, Mari Smith, Scott Monty and many more. Here are some of the most interesting and up-to-date tweets I came across.

(Names are presented in alphabetical order)

1. Ann Handley ( @ marketingprofs )

Tweet Link: “Content Rules” Authors CC Chapman and Ann Handley Content Marketing World Cleveland 2011

Ann fave’d a beautiful picture of herself and her “work husband” CC Chapman sharing a great moment in the spotlight for their co-authored book: Content Rules. You go girl!

2. Chris Brogan ( @ChrisBrogan )

Tweet Link:Chris Brogan’s Keynote Presentation from the PRSA 2011 International Conference

Presentation title:Cultivating Visibility: How PR Professionals Can Amplify the Human Digital Channel for Their Clients

Key Takeaways

Brogan presented the following tips and insights to PR professionals

• Amplify your story using videos and seek testimonials and referrals
• Remember that you are in sales
• Earn leverage

3. Jay Baer ( @JayBaer )

Tweet Link:Content Curation – 5 Ways to Succeed…Eventually

Key Takeaways

Effective content curation steps:

• Identify Your Audience
• Focus Your Content Sharing
• Curate Content That is of Impeccable Quality
• Curate Consistently
• Brand Yourself, not Your Company

4. Mari Smith (@Mari Smith )

Tweet Link: Mari Smith’s Personal Relationship Marketing Success Strategies

Key Takeaways

• Humility and transparency are the reasons behind the smashing success of big brands (such as Coca-Cola and Starbucks) in relationship marketing
• Focus: follow one course until successful
• Radical strategic visibility: be seen in right place to the right people

5. Scott Monty ( @ScottMonty )

Tweet Link: How the New Delicious Stacks Up

Key Takeaways

Delicious major enhancements since AVOS acquisition last April:

• New visual interface
• Better search experience using categories
• “Stacks” is a new feature that allow people to group their tagged items together and share several links visually

Final Thoughts…

What’s your take on information overload? Do you find it a good thing, a bad thing or a mixed blessing?  In Garious, we like to apply the following wisdom: “If you can’t fight it, use it!”.

Information overload inspired us to come up with the most creative ways to find great content effortlessly. (I detailed some of our strategies here and here).

Blogging about fave’d tweets of influential social media figures was another information-filtering idea that we decided to use.  Think about it: People will only fave very special tweets, so I knew I was up for a joy ride .

Do you still have doubts that information overload ignites innovation?