I know what it’s like – you’re busy, and the last thing you feel like you have time for is a bit of a gabble about work with strangers, but if you can make the time, Twitter chats can be a great opportunity to meet and get to better know people in and around the industry that you work in.
I’ve met people that ended up becoming clients while either chatting live, or browsing them after the fact. Add to that – and I’m not going to pretend they’re all great all of the time, because the quality does vary – you can learn quite a lot from some very smart people by paying attention and getting involved.
As people that used to get much more involved a couple of years ago, account director Angharad and I were talking about them recently, and we both said we’d lost sight of what and when was actually out there.
So, Angharad went and created this, an incredibly helpful calendar of Twitter chats!
Here then, in day (and time) order, are chats specific to PR, marketing and social media – enjoy!
(Do let us know if any info is incorrect/we’re missing any!)
| Twitter chat | Day / Time | Content |
| #CommsChat | Mondays @ 8pm GMT | #CommsChat is the home of Europe’s most popular communications conversation. https://t.co/fT94XNKRLz |
| #EcomChat | Mondays @ 11am GMT | Hosted by James Gurd and Dan Barker, this weekly chat focuses on digital marketing strategies and tips for eCommerce businesses. |
| #pocchat | Mondays @ 4pm GMT | Hosted by Bobby Umar, the Power of Connection chat discusses connection in business, leadership and building relationships. |
| #ContentChat | One Monday a month @ 8pm GMT | Founded by Smarter Shift – this Twitter chat features guest experts and talks all things content marketing. |
| #ContentWritingChat | Tuesdays @ 4pm GMT | Hosted by ExpressWriters, this Twitter chat covers everything related to content marketing, such as writing tips, how to measure success, and more.
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| #PPCChat | Tuesdays @ 5pm GMT | Founded by Matthew Umbro, this weekly Twitter chat covers SEO, PPC Google Ad campaigns, keyword and lead generation. |
| #CMWorld | Tuesdays @ 5pm GMT | Hosted by The Content Marketing Institute, this Twitter chat is a place for content marketers to connect and talk best practices and industry insights. |
| #AssnChat | Tuesdays @ 7pm GMT | Founded by Kiki L’Italien, this chat covers SEO, social media, and content strategy for associations and for-profit clients. |
| #BizHeroes | Tuesdays @ 7pm GMT | Founded by Paper.li, this Twitter chat is based around helping businesses build online and offline communities for their customers. |
| #RaganChat | Tuesdays @ 8pm GMT | Organised by Ragan’s PR Daily – one of the big Twitter chats for the industry |
| #SocialROI | Tuesdays @ 11pm GMT | Organised by Manage Flitter in Sydney https://twitter.com/ManageFlitter |
| #SEMrushchat | Wednesdays @ 4pm GMT | Hosted by SEMrush, this Twitter chat is a place to connect with influencers, find out more about SEO, building highly converting landing pages, website development and lead generation. |
| #BrandChat | Wednesdays @ 4pm GMT | Hosted by Maria Duron, this chat focuses on digital marketing, brand and new trends and strategies. |
| #BufferChat | Wednesdays @ 5pm GMT | Hosted by Buffer, this Twitter chat is for business owners and online marketers to talk about a range of digital marketing and social media. |
| #SMChat | Wednesdays @ 6pm GMT | Hosted by guest experts, this Twitter chat focuses on social media, customer services, content marketing and growing your audience. |
| #PowerandInfluence | Wednesdays @ 8pm GMT | Organised by Ella Minty – http://ellaminty.com/powerandinfluence/welcome-to-powerandinfluence/ |
| #SproutChat | Wednesdays @ 8pm GMT | This chat is hosted by Sprout Social and talks about how to use social media to grow your business. |
| #PSAMAchat | Wednesdays @ 9pm GMT | Hosted by Puget Sound American Marketing Association and Point It Digital Marketing, this weekly chat discusses marketing and SEO. |
| #MediaChat | Wednesdays @ 3pm GMT | Founded by Aaron Kilby, this chat focuses on online media and digital marketing best practices. |
| #EmailChat | Thursdays @ 5pm GMT | Founded by AWeber, this Twitter chat centers around email marketing best practices and insights, featuring a new guest host each for chat. |
| #MarketoChat | Thursdays @ 6pm GMT | Hosted by Marketo, you can expect topics related to marketing automation, online marketing tools and business insights. |
| #HootChat | Thursdays @ 8pm GMT | This weekly chat is hosted by Hootsuite and covers social media best practices and insights. |
| #10xMarketingChat | Thursdays @ 9pm GMT | Well-followed account @ContentHackers manages this chat, all about increasing the benefits of marketing. |
| #PMChat | Fridays @ 5pm GMT | Hosted by Robert Kelly, this Twitter chat covers project management, business insights and leadership |
| #CMGRHangout | Fridays @ 7pm GMT | This weekly Twitter chat from My Community Manager talks all things business, content marketing and building your community. |
| #SoulfulPRhour | Sundays @ 8pm GMT | Hosted by Janet Murray, this weekly chat talks all things PR, getting publicity for your brand and reaching out to influencers. |
| #PRStudChat | Monthly @ 1.30am GMT | PR students – organised in the US which is why the time is appalling for us Brits! Might be messages we can use the day after chats to spark blog ideas/our own social content |