I've seen quite a few chambers of commerce asking questions about Twitter recently. How often we post? What should we tweet about? Who should be allowed to post?
I'm always inclined to say "It depends," and that you should use the same guidelines for who speaks at events or with the media and who writes posts for your blog or newsletter. But...let's find out. Here is a poll (also below) to see who manages your chamber's main (organizational) account. If you have more than one account or if several people manage the account, pick one answer - but please also add more information in the comment section below this post. The poll will expire on August 1.
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Posted by: Jack Friedman on Thursday, July 23, 2009
We are the first Chamber in NYC to tweet. We tweet our events, our members events and specials and biz info about Queens, NY We akso RT small biz info and SM tips. In my opinion, its best for the Exec to take on the job of being the main tweep
Posted by: Sherry Melton on Thursday, July 23, 2009
VP of Communications is only one doing it at NC Chamber. I suppose we could fall into the category of marketing, too, though, since we do promotional work for membership, events, other in addition to our advocacy communications work in the Communications division here.
Posted by: Ben VanCamp on Monday, July 27, 2009
We have a few twitter accounts, public policy, economic development, and the CVB all have accounts which they manage. The marketing director handles a chamber account that promotes events, members, and programs. It has been a big hit with our members.
Posted by: Beth on Thursday, July 30, 2009
At the Siouxland Chamber we have 1-2 interns working on informative news that either promotes our members or the Sioux City, IA Metro Area. The rest of the staff and volunteers present things they think are of relevance, to the interns. We have found this concept to work well and our feedback has been very positive.