Robert Weiner

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Twitter Best Practices

Robert Weiner

Every day it seems like there’s a new article on how nonprofits and businesses can use Twitter for engagement, activism, marketing, and fundraising. Today’s entry comes from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which published When Characters Count: Advice for Charities on Making the Most of Twitter.

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Twitter Hacking and Cloud Security

Robert Weiner

The front-page headlines read " Hacker steals Twitter's confidential documents ," but the real story isn't about Twitter — it's that the stolen documents were stored online, "in the cloud." This could happen to any nonprofit or company storing data this way. As we've seen over and over, it's amazingly easy to guess or steal passwords.

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Twestival: Trying to raise $500,000 through Twitter

Robert Weiner

Beth Kanter wrote an extensive, thoughtful account of the upcoming Twestival event , which aims to raise $500,000 for the group charity:water. As a fundraising operations geek, I wonder how this works on the back end. Will the Twestival organizers send tax receipts to the donors, or will that fall to charity:water?

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Pinterest and privacy

Robert Weiner

I can only sign up by linking a Pinterest account to my Facebook or Twitter account. The description on the Twitter link page says this allows them to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See your Twitter password. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you.

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Digital Wallet Helps Prevent Phishing

Robert Weiner

Without thinking too much about it, I clicked on the URL and was taken to a fake Twitter homepage asking me to log in. Roboform knew this wasn't a real Twitter page, and so wouldn't log me in. Here's the deal: I got a message from a friend with a link. That made me realize that I was being scammed. Thanks, Roboform.

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Schools using social media but not for fundraising

Robert Weiner

Social Media was a big topic this year, with workshop titles like "Maximizing Social Networks and Online Resources in Alumni Relations", "Now That Facebook and Twitter Aren't Enough: Integrating Social Media into Your Advancement Toolkit ", and "Making Community Real in a Virtual World" Speakers and attendees reported heavy (..)

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Getting RSS Feeds Via Email

Robert Weiner

I'll use Leah Garchik's Twitter feed of public eavesdropping as an example. On her Twitter page [link] there's a link in the lower right corner saying "RSS feed of leahgarchik's tweets" Clicking on that link takes me to [link]. Once that's set up, click the My Feeds link in the upper-right corner.

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