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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Back in November, I wrote about the introduction of Twitter lists. I wanted to share this helpful video on Twitter lists. Now that Twitter lists have matured over 3+ months, people are finally figuring out their true impact. Are you on any Twitter lists? Do you use them?

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Twitter unleashed its lists to the general public last week. You can also see who has placed your Twitter feed into a list. John Haydon , a social media nonprofit expert thinks that Twitter lists will positively impact your nonprofit. Twitter lists will give users additional ways to create value for their followers.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

A new report from Semiocast came out stating that half of all messages on Twitter are not in English. Tags: Education and Training Tools language rosetta twitter. This is a drop from 69 percent during the same period in 2009. Are you speaking in your audience’s languages? What language is your audience using?

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This week there has been quite a flurry of news for Twitter and Facebook. Bing, Facebook and Twitter now together. Tags: Tools bing facebook google twitter. Bing , Microsoft’s search engine, announced a deal with the two social media tools to include their feeds in search results.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Here’s a nice story with detailed instructions on how to get started on Twitter. Tags: Education and Training Microblog Tools CIO mcdonell twitter. Hat tip to Steve McDonell.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

He has one of the best websites I’ve seen that gives a step by step of tools, tips, and suggestions that you can use to dramatically improve your Twitter knowledge, and thus your Twitter presence. And if you want to follow John on Twitter, his Twitter name is @johnhaydon.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 17, 2009

Here is a great story from CIO.com that details how to launch your presence on Twitter. Tags: Marketing and Awareness Tools twitter CIO twitip business. It includes a definitive reading list, examples of how others have done it. Also, read the reader feedback about launching your presence for smaller organizations and companies.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

A recent story in the NY Times highlights studies that founds teens are more interested in using Twitter this year versus last year. Parents, if you have a Facebook account only to monitor your kids, you’ll want to make sure you understand Twitter and Instagram, too. Tools facebook instagram parents teens twitter'

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JULY 6, 2010

It is an application that shows you current connections for any Twitter username (including your own). Here’s an example: Mention Map for ACHIEVA’s Twitter feed. It works by looking as hastags you use and connections your Twitter account has to create a visual image of your “map&#. Once example is Mention Map.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Getting up to the minute news via Twitter. Coming up on Thanksgiving, I wanted to share a top ten list of things I’m thankful for when it comes to social media. Restricted social media like Path to share with a select group of people. Learning what rhymes with purple from Pinterest.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Every wonder how your Twitter postings influences others? Free online tools such as Klout analyze your use of Twitter and gives you recommendations to be more influential. Tags: Education and Training Marketing and Awareness twitter klout influence. Try it out and see what ideas it may spawn… Influence.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 14, 2011

is a web-based tool, that is free, that you can use to create a daily paper of your Facebook and or Twitter feeds. It also pushes a daily notification letting your followers on Facebook and or Twitter know it has been updated. The paper could also have a morning and evening edition or be weekly. You may also have multiple papers.

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2011

A new study by Experian found that Americans spend 2 hours and 12 minutes on Twitter each month. The study also projects that the amount of time people spend on Twitter per session will drop so your time to potentially engage others online will also decrease. The average time per session was 13 minutes and 12 seconds.

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NCE Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

I posted a Vine video to Twitter. The Governor’s Twitter account writer, surely the Governor doesn’t tweet on his own, retweeted my video. Yesterday, the Governor of Pennsylvania visited our office to hold a press conference to discuss his interest in increasing the budget to address our statewide waiting list.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

1) Twitter has started to email account users when someone retweets your tweets. 2) Twitter is buying Tweetdeck. Assuming you check your email often or get prompted when you get a new email, it makes it a little easier to know when someone has retweeted your work. If you use Tweetdeck already, you shouldn’t notice much change.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 16, 2009

Below is a chart showing how Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace compare in number of unique visitors in the past 13 months. Facebook and Twitter have grown while MySpace has been stagnant. Tags: Facebook Marketing and Awareness Microblog Tools twitter facebook myspace compete. Does your own website meet this level of visitors?

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

It details the noticeable lack of nonprofit organizations that are in the top 100 list of Twitter users. Social media tools, such as Twitter are free resources that allows you to post information, news, comments and links in real time. Why are you using social media like Twitter, Facebook, etc.? So why are you broadcasting?

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Today, Twitter was shut down by a denial of service attack. Even if they couldn’t tweet their status, Twitter was able to post to their information to their blog and get information out through print and new media outlets. Tags: Tools ddos disaster media social twitter. Do you have a back up plan in place?

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , they are defined as: “a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings&# on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. Hashtags – what are they?

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MAY 25, 2012

But social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. Let’s talk about spam and social media. Not the canned meat delicacy but the nasty unwanted stuff. When you think of spam you probably think of email. are also avenues for spam. . Why would spammers target social media – because they can.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Twitter lists. Tags: Tools facebook top10 twitter. People are still trying to figure out how to raise money through social media. Realtime search. Building my agency’s brand through social media. Engaging my constituents through another form of open communication. Giving self-advocates a voice through social media.

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

Evan Williams is the CEO and co-founder of Twitter. Tags: Tools blogger listen odeo pyra twitter. He also happened to co-found Pyra Labs, which created Blogger , the blogging tool that popularized the term blog and blogging, and Odeo a podcasting company. Here is a video of him discussing how to listen to your users.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I was limited to discussing only three social media tools, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, because of time. Tags: Education and Training Tools causes facebook social media twitter YouTube. Here are my slides that I wanted to share with you. > Beth Kanter has an excellent explanation of them here.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

A journalist was kicked off of Twitter, then reinstated , for including the email address of an NBC executive while complaining vociferously about NBC’s coverage of the games. So if you follow NBC on Twitter or Facebook you’ll see the results of the games before the tape-delayed events are broadcast.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Shortly after posting someone posted the photo to Twitter. She asked the person to remove the photo from Twitter. On Christmas Day Randi posted a family photo on Facebook. She thought only her friends could see it. Boy was she wrong. I expect a revised version of how to make photos on Facebook private any day now.

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

EasyChirp – it is an alternative to Twitter but aimed to be used by people with disabilities who may be using access technologies. Until last summer it was called Accessible Twitter. BTW, if you haven’t set up a Google Alert for your agency, you should. It’s in beta so they are still testing it with end users.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Here are two tools that you can download and will allow you to post updates to your Twitter and Facebook feeds. Tags: Facebook Microblog Tools adobeair facebook seesmic tweetdeck twitter. Tweetdeck is a nice tool that allows you to see your various tweets, posts, what people you follow are tweeting or posting, etc.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

4) Link to your profiles on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We also have a new feature for nonprofits on Change.org that is synched with Twitter and allows admins to ask the rapidly growing Change.org community for help with a specific need in 140 characters or less. 2) Message all your supporters. THANKS so much, Heather.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Will we see pre-university students connect their Twitter and Facebook feeds to LinkedIn? Their reasoning is to help “pre-university” students in LinkedIn lingo, aka high school students to everyone else, prepare their online resume/online identity for a career once they are out of high school.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Tags: Education and Training Facebook Microblog Research social media twitter facebook privacy.

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MARCH 13, 2009

In fact, there was a small brouhaha when legislators twittered during President Obama’s state of the union address. To see if your legislators use Twitter visit www.TweetCongress.org. This site has a list of congressmen who use Twitter. Please note that the site also includes the YouTube webpage links for the legislators.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

VII) Animals given voices through Twitter. X) Seven Deadly Sins of Social Good. IX) How Diverse are Social Networks. VIII) Flickr Changes might signal change for location and privacy for all. VI) Mobilizing Charitable Efforts on Social Media. V) Ways nonprofits leverage blogs. IV) Create a timeline using your social media accounts.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I want to acknowledge that there are now 83 Arc-related groups on Twitter. Verizon Support contacted me through Twitter to see if they could help. They have a staff person whose only job is to monitor social media sites like Twitter to help their customers – and this person had read my tweet.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Other facts uncovered in the study: 90% of charities had Twitter accounts. The study found that charities adopted social media faster and the adoption was more widespread than for-profit use. 65% had blogs. 36% had LinkedIn pages. 30% had MySpace pages. So are you part of the 93% with a page or 7% without?

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Would you like to have a Twitter-like service that only your board or staff could view? Unlike Twitter, Present.ly Let me introduce you to Present.ly. allows individuals to post short, frequent updates that are tracked or “followed&# by others.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Tags: Microblog Research twitter Sysomos Retweet.

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JULY 3, 2013

Earlier this summer Instagram released it’s video component to compete with Twitter’s Vine. Since it’s the 4th of July tomorrow, here are four things that are trending in social media right now. 1) Instagram video. Some say it hit Vine hard. Others say, not so fast.

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