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Mar
22
2011
Want your Twitter profile to stand out and clearly communicate your personal or company Brand? You’ve probably noticed that Twitter comes with some standard backgrounds patterns that you choose from to customize your Twitter profile’s appearance. ...
Mar
22
2011
Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets...
Mar
22
2011
Live-tweeting -- the kind of tweeting where you replay to your Twitter followers what people are saying at an event in real time -- is something that seems to be gaining popularity at conferences around the nonprofit circuit. It can be fun to do on...
Mar
22
2011
When a tweet generates a reply (aka @) or a retweet (aka RT), it suggests the tweet has resonated enough with someone that it sparks a conversation or encourages someone to share it with their followers.
Mar
22
2011
How you say something is often as important as what you say – especially with social media tools like Twitter. All users on Twitter can choose between four methods of posting a tweet: Plain, Re-Tweet, Reply and Direct Message.  For small businesses...
Mar
22
2011
Just starting out on Twitter? Looking for some Twitter Tips to get you started?
Mar
22
2011
Tagging helps to organize and share our online information with others. By attaching one or more keywords to a Flickr photograph, for example, we group it together with others that have the same tag. Hashtags serve a similar purpose on Twitter, the...
Mar
22
2011
One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol (“#”) at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to...
Mar
22
2011
If used correctly, #hashtags can be very useful to nonprofits on Twitter. Hashtags allow your organization to participate and inspire conversations (and in the process get new followers) and organize the Twitterverse around campaigns (#climatechange...
Mar
22
2011
What is a #hashtag? A hashtag is the symbol: #. (See the definition in Socialbrite’s glossary.) It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter.
Mar
22
2011
Since Beth Kanter is going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, she is going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools. She starts with Twitter.
Mar
22
2011
The three basic measurements: 1. Followers This number indicates reach. Your followers number is the number of people that have shown on interest in your Twitter stream. Track how your follower numbers grow by jotting it down every month or so in an...

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