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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. The Twitter accounts from a small group of gurus/practitioners in online community management. This is a premium service and it well worth the investment.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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Managing Multiple Twitter Accounts for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I wrote a post called " 8 Nonprofit CEOs Who Tweet " and the number quickly grew based on the responses in the comments. It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement.

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How to Maximize Your Nonprofit CEO’s Social Profiles

Whole Whale

This can be used to quickly aggregate relevant news in the sector and show a summary to the CEO for quick reactions. Before reading further, be clear, none of this will really work if your executive employees refuse to be public and let others support in the sheer volume of work necessary for creating active profiles. Rev.com or Otter.ai

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Guest Post by Julio Vasconcellos: Lessons Learned from Twitter Campaigns on Twitcause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The week we launched TwitCause , TechCrunch called us a “ Causes for Twitter ,” today our platform for supporting nonprofit causes on Twitter has surpassed 500,000 followers , spotlighted dozens of nonprofits , raised tens of thousands of dollars, and won the hearts of celebrities, nonprofits, and caring Twitterers.

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Like tagging for Twitter, hashtags are terms you put after a # in a post.

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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

You are also given the option to disable comments on something and/or disable the option for others to share/reshare what you post. Though, you’ll see in these images (just like on Facebook), that when you comment or interact with a friend’s post, you can then be interacting with people who aren’t in your circles.

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