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Industry-specific guides to Twitter, by profession."

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Twitter Acquires Tweetie, the Best iPhone Twitter Client: What's Next? | Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company

Twitter Acquires Tweetie, the Best iPhone Twitter Client: What's Next? | Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company: "But not anymore. Twitter bought startup Summize back in 2008 to create a decent search engine, and now they've acquired Tweetie, one of the best (if not the best) mobile Twitter app. A URL shortener (like bit.ly) and photo uploader (like Twitpic) could well be next. And if Twitter does acquire all the necessary components and offer them as a package, they'll have total control of the medium, which means they'll be able to monetize much more effectively. That strategy will also, of course, leave all the developers who made Twitter what it is today stranded."

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Twitter Blog: @anywhere

Twitter Blog: @anywhere: "@anywhere
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When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more. You could follow any account and be followed by any account. As a result, companies started interacting with customers, celebrities connected with fans, governments became more transparent, and people started discovering and sharing information in a new, participatory manner."

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Eight Ways To Make Your Meeting Or Event Blog And Twitter Friendly – Engage365

Eight Ways To Make Your Meeting Or Event Blog And Twitter Friendly – Engage365: "“Imagine the scene then – as you walk into a classic theatre type setting – only with two balconies either side marked explicitly for pre-registered bloggers and twitterers…looking not a million miles away from a press box at a sports game.”
Here are eight meeting planning tips I learned from WIF09 on how to make your next event blog and Twitter friendly."

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RFI Studios - Twitter as a News Source - Right Brain

RFI Studios - Twitter as a News Source - Right Brain: "It’s no secret that social media plays a HUGE role in how we receive information. Pew Internet just released a study that found that 75% of people find their news online through email or social media, with 52% forwarding news through those same means.

The implications of this study were epitomized as this weekend saw a surge of tweets as information about the earthquake became more readily available."

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Social Media Builds Support, But Fundraising Lags Overall - Press - AFP

Social Media Builds Support, But Fundraising Lags Overall - Press - AFP: "dealware, an organization that offers reviews and information on software for nonprofits, recently surveyed 459 nonprofit staff members who were already using social media at their organizations. They asked people what tools they were using and how effectively they thought those tools were meeting particular goals. Specifically, they asked about seven tools or types of tools: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, video-sharing sites, photo-sharing sites and blogs."

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Social Media Responds to Chile's Earthquake: We Can Help | Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company

Social Media Responds to Chile's Earthquake: We Can Help | Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company: "As Chilean and international rescue forces work through the rubble cause by the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit near Concepcion, Chile's second-largest city, users of social media the world over have undertaken their own rescue measures. Twitter, Facebook, and several of Google's properties aren't trivial, now. They're life-saving, informational tools. An eye-rolling bit of gossip about one of those Kardashian girls can explode through the web in minutes--and now, news about those in Chile is traveling over the same digital pathways, with the same speed, reaching the same vast amount of people. These are a few ways social media is being used in the wake of the quake."

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Twitter Strikes Deal To Bring Free SMS Tweets To Haiti - washingtonpost.com

Twitter Strikes Deal To Bring Free SMS Tweets To Haiti - washingtonpost.com: "Following the disastrous earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, a number of web companies have been setting up special programs to try and do their part to help. Twitter has been one of the most active, as the company has made great use of its social graph to get the word out on how to help through donations and other means. Now they've done something else.Twitter was able to strike a deal with Digicel to bring free SMS tweets to Haitian citizens (who use that carrier)."

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UNTECH10 - Association Bisnow - Washington

UNTECH10 - Association Bisnow - Washington: "When ASAE's Tech Conference was snowed out last week, association techies improvised to create UnTech10, an unofficial alternative at the Renaissance Hotel. Thanks to a Twitter marketing push, nearly 100 showed up in-person and more than 400 participated through a live webcast."

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Give and Take - The Chronicle of Philanthropy-Should Nonprofit Leaders Have Ghostwriters?

Give and Take - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Should Nonprofit Leaders Have Ghostwriters?

By Peter Panepento

Celebrities such as Britney Spears, Kanye West, and 50 Cent have huge followings for their Twitter feeds and Facebook fan pages.

But followers shouldn't expect that they're hearing directly from these entertainers when they're following their Tweets or reading their blogs because they've hired ghostwriters.

Many nonprofit leaders might be tempted to follow a similar course with their own Twitter feeds and blogs."

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Why My Mom Is My Fundraising Guru | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

Why My Mom Is My Fundraising Guru | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "he challenge in online fundraising today is that it's more than just email: it's Facebook, and Twitter, and e-mail, and widgets, and your website, and your blog, and your supporters blogs, and... well, you get the idea.

During the course of the 2009 fundraising campaign, the task ahead of me often felt like Medusa: if I stared directly into any of those serpentine eyes, I was frozen. Thinking too hard about any one tactic meant I was lost for hours. But we managed to meet the challenge (by the skin of our teeth)."

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non-profits posts - The Social - CNET News

non-profits posts - The Social - CNET News: "As the event grew closer, we decided that we wanted some kind of innovative way for guests to donate to support Doctors Without Borders' relief efforts in Haiti. So after some brainstorming we thought about using Square, the new mobile-payment company co-founded by Twitter Chairman Jack Dorsey. The event's main co-hosts got in touch with one of Square's executives, who generously shipped us two of the little gadgets--which aren't on the market yet--on very short notice."

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Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Shortly after last's week's earthquake in Haiti, a group of students working in a laboratory in Colorado unveiled a project that makes it easier for victims and volunteers to tweet for help.

The lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Atlas Institute, produced a guideline for a 'help specific' Twitter syntax that allows tweets requesting help to be easily processed by a computer program. The program organizes the messages by 'hashtags,' as code words used in Twitter are often called, that express need and location. Then the software can send the information to an organization providing relief."

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The World Won't End Without Your Tweets | davefleet.com

The World Won't End Without Your Tweets | davefleet.com: "Social media can be a compulsive beast. It’s easy to feel a ‘need’ to keep putting out content through your various channels; no-where is this more true right now than on Twitter. I’ve written about that topic before, and I’ve also discovered the importance of unplugging occasionally."

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PHILANTHROPY 2173: What kind of Apps would your foundation build?

PHILANTHROPY 2173: What kind of Apps would your foundation build?: "As my plane landed I sent out this Tweet 'What could a community foundation App do?

Whoa. The smarties of Twitter responded. A flood of ideas came along - tweeted, DM'd and on and on. Here are some of them:"

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6 Benefits of Using Twitter for Nonprofit | Pamela Grow's Grantwriting Blog

6 Benefits of Using Twitter for Nonprofit | Pamela Grow's Grantwriting Blog: "Why should we?”

“Twitter is just a bunch of noise about people eating lunch.”

“Our customers aren’t online.”

“We already have a website.”

Sound familiar? There are plenty of reasons to avoid social media, it seems. It is true that there are a zillion time-wasting testimonials out there, and a plethora of pundits sharing little, if any, value to organizations and the causes they represent."

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Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town - CNN.com

Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town - CNN.com: "There's no reason that organizations or individuals who want to use the Web to relay critical information have to rely on Twitter or Facebook or Google or any other giant of the technology industry in the first place. We've just forgotten a bit about how the Internet was supposed to work.

Rescue organizations and charities should simply be able to use the Web sites they already have to deliver those messages."

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Got Twitter Clout? Here's How to Find out. - PC World

Got Twitter Clout? Here's How to Find out. - PC World: "How influential are you on Twitter? That's what several sites are now promising to judge, labeling you by doing everything from calculating your 'social capital' to knocking you for a 'low Twitter efficiency.'"

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The New Media Relations for Nonprofits - How Nonprofits Can Get Their Stories Out Through Bloggers and Twitter

Joanne Fritz covers New Media Relations
The New Media Relations for Nonprofits - How Nonprofits Can Get Their Stories Out Through Bloggers and Twitter: "Media relations in the world of Web 2.0 have changed dramatically.

While it is still important to keep in touch with the so-called 'main stream media,' especially your local reporters, that is no longer sufficient."

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Fund Raiser Seeks -- and Shares -- Advice on Social-Media Tools - Philanthropy.com

Fund Raiser Seeks -- and Shares -- Advice on Social-Media Tools - Philanthropy.com: "Fund Raiser Seeks -- and Shares -- Advice on Social-Media Tools

Six months ago Jason Dick, a college development officer in Redmond, Wash., put out a request on his blog, A Small Change, to get tips from other fund raisers on how to effectively use networks like Twitter and Facebook to raise money."

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