We're often asked about how to set up a Twitter account for an organization, when it's likely that more than one staffer will be tweeting. For the website link field of the profile, create a Twitter landing page which says, "Welcome to the Twitter page for YAP! Use a multiple account Twitter client to manage your accounts. Why? Here's a quick four-step rundown of what we would do. This isn't the only way, of course.

This morning I randomly selected 10 nonprofits on Twitter and viewed their “Favorites”. At @ NonprofitOrgs , I started using “Favorites” regularly a few months ago and it is has made managing the chaos of Twitter (which I love) a little more organized and strategic. Here’s three ways to use the Favorite function on Twitter: Eight of those had never Favorited a Tweet, and the other two had Favorited a couple of Tweets, but more than three months ago. 1) Favorite Tweets you want to ReTweet in the future.

This time around I limited the list to individuals bloggers, rather than blogs maintained by associations, publications, PR firms, etc. Tags: Blogging Twitte Last week I asked the followers of @NonprofitOrgs to nominate their favorite nonprofit bloggers. The list below is the result of that “Tweet Out”. Some on the

In this video, I talk about how I save time commenting, tweeting and promoting others. How do you save time commenting and tweeting? Sharing Must reads": How to go viral with remarkable service Why Twitter is not a replacement for email marketing ...Tags: Tags: Rock Your Web Twitter Tips commenting @ariherzog I’ve been getting in the habit of documenting (via screen casts) how I do social media for an interactive ebook I’ll be publishing soon.

This was a follow-up from this post where I laid out 4 step for setting up an organizational Twitter account. Twitter can be a great space for building community around your membership-based organization, whether you work for a professional society, trade association or a cause-related nonprofit. Here's a quick eight-step rundown of how to set up a Twitter account for your ".org". (Image by Maggi_94) Here's a repost of my TwiTip Guest post from 4/11/09 . You've already read this, but I'm including it here for archival purposes.

If used correctly, #hashtags can be very useful to nonprofits on Twitter. The problem is that there so many hashtags floating around on Twitter, that’s it tough to keep track of which hashtags work best and reach the most individuals. When Twitter first launched it did not have a search function, so to be able to have conversations via Tweets beyond Replies, hashtags were necessary. Hashtags allow your organization to participate and inspire conversations (and in the process get new followers) and organize the Twitterverse around campaigns ( #climatechange ) and events ( #openwebawards ).

We're working with one group who had exactly this scenario - a fairly big event coming up quickly, and members asking about their social media presence, and they figured they should just jump in and set up an official Twitter account to see what would happen. In no particular order: - to keep up with things happening around exhibits, and communicate with exhibitors - to be the cool kid - to experiment with a different kind of communication - to find out who uses Twitter within their community - to see if members are interested in using this forum - if it works for meetings/events, could

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.   There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples. Will having an personal Twitter account for your organization like having an organizational Last week I wrote a post called " 8 Nonprofit CEOs Who Tweet " and the number quickly grew based on the responses in the comments.  You'll need to decide who is doing the Tweeting

Following is a guest post from my friend Paddy Donnelly ( @paddydonnelly ), an Irish web designer, illustrator and blogger who currently lives in Belgium and spends too much time on the Internet. _________ Over the past few months I have been lucky enough to interview some of the Twitter elite including Guy Kawasaki , Pete Cashmore , Tim O’Reilly , Chris Brogan , Smashing Magazine , Damien Mulley , Chris Coyier , Eoghan McCabe , David Lanham , Paul Boag and Darren Rowse , asking their opinions on the social media scene and getting an insight into how

I was recently asked to do a quick summary of this post by Guy Kawasaki, "Looking for Mr GoodTweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter" which has been doing the rounds. It's a long post with a bunch of tips, so here's the short version for those of us with many hats and/or short attention spans and/or not much time in the day, etc. Real thought leaders will reply to you if you say something worth replying etc. etc.