Are you one of the Twitterati? Twitter is a social media site where members can “follow” each other and issue periodic updates on what they are doing at any point in time. Your first reaction may be like mine: Sounds like a colossal waste of time. Although it can be a less-than-productive way to spend your day, I have discovered several benefits of Twitter in the month or so I have used it that make the small amount of time I spend on Twitter worthwhile. (You can learn more and see what I am up to at http://www.Twitter.com/CathyStucker.)

Lots of bloggers are finding Twitter to be a good way to promote their blogs, find new material, and build more one-on-one relationships with their readers. Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net posts about the value of Twitter here.

Here are the benefits I have discovered in 37 days of Twittering . . . [Read more…]