Join the founders of learn2link Atlanta's Social Media Experts for sessions over the lunch hour on social media topics. Topics include Twitter, "the first real threat to google" LinkedIn the largest business focused social network in North America. Ecademy the first social network focused on business in founded over 10 years ago in the UK with a huge international membership and growing rapidly in the North America.

Twitter/ how to integrate this powerful micro blogging tool into your overall social networking strategy. There seems to be a social media platform of the month club and nobody can use them all. The beauty of Twitter is there is a great synergy between twitter and almost any of your other social media initiatives. You don't want to ignor Twitter.

Twitter has been called the first real threat to Google

When the last earthquake happened in California it was reported almost immediately on Twitter. It took about 10 minutes before mainstream media had the facts. Twitter broke the news about the New York plane crash and beat out the media by 15 minutes. People are realizing that Twitter gets the news faster, and knows more, than any search engine possibly can.

According to Lew Moorman, "Twitter is just flat out better for getting information than Google. Here are just a few:  researching companies, products and services for real customer feedback, breaking news and live events/conference updates.  It is not a total threat, but Twitter is so superior in these areas that people will indeed make the effort to search somewhere new to get the information.

Thats why journalists are on Twitter - and as a PR person you should be too.  Its not only  about what youre doing right now or how many hundreds of people follow you.  Its an important tool to get information.