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Twitter

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How to use Twitter

Twitter is, with Facebook (but better ), THE most written about and the most cheered social media tool in the past years. But it is also one of the most powerful tools for nonprofit organisations to create a community, to propagate your core messages and to kickstart fundraising and advocacy. It is a conversation tool, [...]

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Twitter: how to keep a secret

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Cartoon courtesy Geek and Poke

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Power tools to manage multiple Twitter accounts

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For the past 18 months, I managed a dozen different Twitter accounts. From each, I tweet simple text phrases, links, and pictures. I follow my social crowd closely, checking the replies and direct message I get. I also retweet and engage into conversations, as a good social media user should do. In short, I am [...]

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Paper.li turns your Twitter stream into a web magazine

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My post about “Flipboard”, an iPad application which turns several social media streams into a slick magazine, stirred up some discussions at a local Tweetup. In the article, I complained about the boring feat of browsing through your Twitter stream, which is nothing more than a mere list of links and comments. While Flipboard turns [...]

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RSS to Twitter: The Big Boys Have Arrived

I have posted before about how you can capitalize on your Twitter social community to increase traffic onto your blog. Regularly tweeting the new posts on your blog is the secret. I tweet a few thousand posts per month, accounting for over 100,000+ visits on my aggregator blogs. What tools are on the market to [...]

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Posterous as an alternative for TwitPic

One of the great many things one can use Twitter for, is to share pictures “on-the-fly” with your social community: From about anywhere in the world, I can take a picture with my mobile phone and within seconds post it on Twitter, for all my followers to see. The most popular picture-posting tool is Twitpic. [...]

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Twitter drives traffic to your blog. But how much?

I wrote before on how to use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog. I also published a short case study about the influence Twitter-generated traffic had onto my blogs. Most of the evidence of Twitter-to-Blog traffic was circumstantial though: Google Analytics only tracks referral site traffic. As More and more people use a desktop [...]

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How to promote your blogposts

“Content is King” is one of the most important slogans for serious bloggers: No matter how well you promote your blog, if your content – what and how your write – is mediocre, people might discover your blog, but won’t come back. Good, original content is key. It also works the other way round: you [...]

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Twitter offline tool

Now that Twitter, the all-praised social networking tool, is going into its 2nd day limping on one leg after yesterday’s hacker attack, it is time to fall back onto proven technology: Twitter’s Offline Utility… Step 1:

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Twitter and Facebook hacked (again)

The more critical, visible or popular a website, the more prone they become to hacker attacks. Social media giants Twitter and Facebook experienced this today. Both sites came under – probably related – hacker attacks today, bringing Twitter down, and Facebook onto its knees. The attacks were of a basic DoS (Denial of Service) types [...]

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Who tweets about you?

As explained in our Twitter for Dummies series: “retweeting” is an effective way for people to re-broadcast your tweets. Use this URL to find out who is retweeting you:

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