Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the 10-minute lessons, you learn everything you need to know to use Twitter quickly and easily. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks. "Did You Know?" tips offer insider advice and shortcuts. "Watch Out!" alerts help you avoid problems.

Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in 10 Minutes provides beginner and experienced users with fast at-a-glance tips pointing out helpful shortcuts and solutions, and cautions to help avoid common Twitter pitfalls. It is written in a clear, easy-to-understand format. It walks you though creating a basic profile, and then moves into working away from the website and using third-party applications and mobile clients for smartphones. Topics covered include:

• Creating a complete profile that encourages connections both personal and professional
• Creating avatars that best represent you
• Expressing yourself in 140-characters or less
• Exchanging links efficiently across the Twitter network
• Exchanging media (photos, video, and audio) across Twitter
• Working with third-party websites to help build your network
• Working with websites that expand Twitter's capabilities
• Working with third-party applications to automatically retrieve tweets from Twitter.com
• Working with third-party applications to use Twitter on a smartphone

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New tools have made it easier to create a podcast. The second edition of Podcasting For Dummies shows you how you can create and distribute your own online recordings using tools you already have. This edition also covers what you need to build a top-notch podcasting studio. Expert podcasters Tee Morris and Evo Terra are joined on this edition by a fellow podcasting guru, Chuck Tomasi, to walk you through recording, editing, posting, and promoting a podcast. Chapters cover:

• Choosing a topic that fits your expertise
• Writing an outline or script for your podcast
• Turning your existing computer into a desktop podcasting studio
• Picking the microphone, headphones, and audio editing software that best suit your needs
• Upgrading to pro-level podcasting equipment
• Conducting interviews and recording an interview subject who’s not in the room with you
• Navigating the XML code you need to share your podcast
• Finding a place to host your podcast online
• Promoting your podcasts in the blogosphere, online discussion groups, and social networking sites
• Seeking out sponsors, advertising, and subscriptions to make your podcast pay
• Creating podcasts designed to promote a business

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