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Plotting my return to Twitter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In April of this year, I left twitter. I had good reason to leave twitter. I joined Twitter in the beginning, because my colleagues were. I joined Twitter in the beginning, because my colleagues were. Twitter will be useful. nptech twitter. Tags: Technology Zen Web2.0

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Using Twitter for a Global Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays.

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6 Social Media Lessons for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Tags: General non-profit interest nptech Social networking Facebook Twitter research social media. Carol’s been studying Idealware’s Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide – the latest in a line of Idealware’s terrific research-based publications – and she’s kindly agreed to share her top “take-aways” from this new publication.(

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. In the Assessment and Reflection Report, the authors bring other good lessons and note that “Some like Atlas Corps recruited 150 ‘Campaign Captains’ before the contest started. Technology.

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Twitter Is A Network Weaver's Best Friend

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. My cc: to June Holley, was a little tongue and cheek or sort wink and node to the master that I was applying one of her lessons. Tags: network weaving. She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving.

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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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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon by Diana Scimone. We didn’t come close to raising that amount, but learned a lot about using social media tools like Twitter to promote and raise money for a cause.

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