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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. Some of the best info I come across is flowing through Twitter and I stamp it for later, but I am missing an easy means to get back to it. Enter Hashtags.

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eMetrics Panel Slides, Notes, and Blog Posts: ROI of Blogging, Twitter, and Digg for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tags: blogging nptech ).   So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be?

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word. Here is what he learned. Technology.

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My Most Engaged Follower On Twitter Is @JenniferPreston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. If you want to read the re-caps or view the videos for the seminar itself, the Knight Foundation blog has full documentation here ). (If SocialRank is a tool that helps you understand your followers on your Twitter and now Instagram.

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Reflections on Twitter Chat Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in Twitter chat series #socialmedia. The beauty of Twitter is that you can do a little bit of network weaving to bring other people in the thread. I was scanning who else was on Twitter, but not participating in the thread and I tweeted a question or invitation to join them.

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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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Examples of Abundance in the Arts: Ask A Conductor on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: If you’ve been following my blog lately, you know I’ve been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance. A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. What was the objective? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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