This is a very useful list not just of Twitter tips, but also just general all round good advice about how to Tweet well.
I was going to count up how many I’ve made - but ran out of fingers … and toes … and friends fingers … (well maybe not that one!). Will go back and review my Twitter use immediately I think!
Thanks to @katelister for passing this one along through my Twitter stream today!
I’m looking around today for social media tools that are relevant and helpful for voluntary and community organisations.
So it’s great to find this resource and toolkit list on the oneforty website. Plenty of tool kits which will appeal to a wide range of ‘nonprofits’ and plenty of tools to help with listening, marketing, analysis of statistics … and much much more.
Something for everyone!
These have been around a while - but always worth sharing.
This video from Parasol Creations is for anyone who has ‘checked in’ to a pub on Foursquare before ordering a round or who has to take pictures of their meal and post to Facebook before eating …
You have to be able to laugh at how we use social media websites don’t you?
Oh and as a bonus, here’s the trailer for the Twitter movie. Really!
I keep sharing infographics like this that I find - it really helps if you can visualise a subject! Hope it helps you too (if only as stats for your next presentation!)
Thanks @rachelbeer for alerting me to it!
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This is a neat summary from Mashable describing 36 recent social media resources, tools or just general articles - all to help make social media more usable and more useful to businesses and organisations.
Following on from the presentation by @robmdyson at #nfptweetup last night the article on ‘charity checkins’ using location aware mobile devices caught my eye as particularly relevant.
… Oh on the subject of #nfptweetup, @rachelbeer has posted this article about the first #nfptweetup back in November 2008. Oh dear, is all I can say - where are they all now!!
I like these!
We Are Visible who have an aim to help you connect to the social world, have created these four interesting little video walkthroughs showing how to …
- Create a Gmail account
- Set up a Facebook page
- Set up a Twitter account
- Blog (or not)
Hope you find them useful too.
Just a quick update with two more Twitter tools that i’ve found useful.
ListiMonkey - This website enables you to subscribe to Twitter lists and get updates sent to you by email.
The Archivist - If you like to know all the statistics relating to your twitter account, popular keywords, retweets etc. then this is the website you need.
Hope these are as useful to you as they are to me
I could have copied these slides … (boo) or I could just put up this post to share something great with others (yay).
Guess these slides from Bryony Taylor (or @vahva on Twitter) is the presentation I wish I could have written about the new Twitter!
This is a neat set of four tutorial slide decks about how to use Twitter which even shows the new format Twitter pages.
Hope you don’t mind me sharing these Bryony!
It’s good to be reminded of this comparison again. I first heard something similar (about being at a party) *way back* in 2007 at a workshop led by the great Paul Caplan. At that time I wasn’t using Twitter, Facebook was a novelty and the most social I was being with media was shoehorning RSS feeds in and out of websites.
Paul spoke about being at a party, if you don’t know people you may hang round the edges for a while, make polite conversation and listen to what others say. The host will introduce you to others and may try to find people they know share your interests. Soon you’ll be deep in conversation, swapping stories, notes, phone numbers and …..!
You wouldn’t go into the party stand in the centre of the room and start broadcasting your views, not replying to people and even brushing off people who do try to talk to you!
Times may have changed (the graphics in this blog post from D. Steven White really bring it home), but the party or the bar hasn’t. OK new drinks have come (and gone) and music tastes change, but social media etiquette remains the same.
Don’t fill the space by shouting your ideas never engaging in meaningful conversations and don’t always ask, ask, ask. Build two-way relationships and be generous at the social media party, listen and chat with others and you’ll constantly be pleased that you accepted the invitation to the best party around!
