“The Manitoba Chambers of Commerce has led the way in using the internet for the benefit of our members and I am pleased to announce that we are now utilizing Twitter as another platform to promote our members and get them the information they need”, explained Dan Overall, Director of Policy and Communications, Manitoba Chambers of Commerce.  

 How the MCC Twitter page helps raise your profile:

• All posts on the main MCC website – all the news, profiles and ‘think pieces’ we post about you – automatically go to the MCC Twitter and Facebook pages;
• The MCC Twitter page follows MCC members – displaying your logos and a link to your page on our page (we are going through the list of our members to see if they have a Twitter page, but if we aren’t following you yet feel free to email doverall@mbchambers.mb.ca and let us know if you have a page).

 How Twitter Can Particularly Benefit Small/Busy Members: 

Have you ever had some news – a new site, a new move, a new client, an award, a community initiative – and you didn’t have the time or patience to draft a full news release about it? 

Create a Twitter page (it’s easy!), let us know so we can follow you, and describe the news item in one line. Then the MCC will retweet it – which means it is posted on the MCC Twitter page and goes out to its 83 and growing list of followers! 

Here’s a sampling of some of the members news the MCC has retweeted:

• modernearth Congratulations to our client – CABP – on the launch of their new website. http://cabplan.org/
• JohnathanFahr Fahr Group is Sponsoring the East St. Paul Summer Soccer Classic http://members.shaw.ca/espsummersoccerclassic/Schedules.htm
• winnipegfdn Most of the projects in the Foundation’s Green Spaces Strategy are underway. Check out our commitment to downtown Wpg: http://ow.ly/2oHhe
• Acrodex Acrodex is a finalist for CDN’s 2010 Channel Elite Awards for Best Enterprise Solution. Winners announced in Sep! http://bit.ly/baIRlE

The MCC Twitter page was soft-launched 30 days ago and already has 83 followers.

The MCC Twitter page is available here. The MCC Facebook page is available here.