Sweet Retweets – how you can learn the secrets to writing well for social media

I’m off to sunny London today to do a workshop at Social Media Week London called Sweet Retweets: How to write well for social media. I did it last year with my occasional partner-in-crime Sue Keogh of Sookio and the response was fantastic. We realised that although there is plenty of training in how to set up and use social networks, there seems to be a gap in good advice on how to write well for it.

With our combined experience writing for websites such as the BBC, AOL, Yahoo!, ITV.com, Magic FM, Heat and working on social media campaigns for Coronation Street, Paul Smith, Toshiba and Ted events among others, we feel we have bags of experience and are happy to share it. We offer people our best practice tips gleaned from spending hundreds of hours sweating over headlines, tweets and status updates.

The event today was fully booked within an hour of going live – so there’s plenty of appetite for people looking for how to make the most of Twitter, Facebook and other social networks to promote their content.

The workshops cover:

• How to get Likes on Facebook
• Writing tweets that travel
• Crafting headlines that people will want to share
• Social media dos and don’ts
• Loads of good, bad and plain ugly examples from our experience.

We also include a couple of practical exercises so people can start putting the tips and tricks to use straightaway.

We’re looking to put on more workshops in the coming months, so do get in touch if you’re interested in coming along.

The Sweet Retweets event today is sponsored by Islington-based branding and design agency Handstand Creative, who will be providing some delicious cakes to match our sweet theme. Yum!