I still consider myself a beginner so this post by Dosh Dosh on 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners had some familiar stuff but some new considerations too.

A few caught my attention and got me thinking

• Twitter is becoming a great way to find the influencers and connect with them. By it's nature, Twitter is a where the early adopters are and it tends to be the social media types (sorry for that gross moniker) but you know who I mean. The people who shape what the rest of then latch on to. If you're a marketer in the tech industry you should probably be on Twitter already and using tools like Terraminds to find your target crowd

If you have a press feed, you should probably hook it up to Twitter now. Let people choose to tune in to your news as they choose to. Spam them with email by all accounts but give them options. You probably have an RSS feed for your news already. If so, hook it up to Twitter now with Twitterfeed. Why? Well the BBC and The Guardian have feeds and they're both very popular. The BBC's were created by Mario rather than the BBC themselves as it happens. He just took their RSS feed and plugged it in to Twitterfeed. Trust me, it's a 5 minute job and will be a must have by the end of this year just like RSS was last year.

• As above, ditto for the HR department - if you have cool jobs to share, why not put them on Twitter. Why isn't msftjobs a Twitter channel? I'm off to find out

• Likewise, if you have a blog why not wire it up to Twitter with Twitterfeed. I found myself Twittering about my blog posts but now that happens automatically for me. Oh and it drives ~20% more traffic to my blog in my experience.

• Are you having an event? Ensure you have a Twitter channel for it so you can quickly and easily distribute things like party locations, session times changing etc. It's like having a conference wide megaphone. Additional tip here is that you don't need to worry about ensuring people are tuned in. The crowd will do that themselves as word spreads fast. Also check out Craig's Eventtrack

• [update] - Nick Halstead released Tweetmeme just after I published. it's a great way to see what's hot on Twitter

that's all for now. Lots more thoughts on Twitter. Everyday in fact at http://twitter.com/stevecla