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Happy 3rd Birthday Twitter: What was your first tweet?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shel Israel, Twitterville Wikipedia Article on Twitter. Tags: twitter. My first Tweet: October 24, 2006 According to the TwitterFacts Blog , the first tweets of Twitter were sent three years ago today. I started using it 6 months after, but I didn't truly adopt the tool until 6 months later. What and when was your first tweet?

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Friday Links: June 16th

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

His blog is at [link] He's also well known for his blook on blogging, Naked Conversations , co-authored with Shel Israel. The post attacks the enthusiam for massively collaborative web projects, in particular, Wikipedia: The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Tags: nptech Why pay attention to it?

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Friday Links

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Wikipedia takes center stage Nicholas Carr has been bemused for a good while now by the growing popularity of the publically editied Internet knowledge compendium Wikipedia. Nick pointed out it was the #1 page for World War II and Israel. It's hard to find a topic where the Wikipedia entry is not among the top 10!