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Category Archives: Twitter
4 Ways to monitor your Twitter account
You tweet, you retweet, people tweet you… but it can be difficult to see how these patterns are changing over time. Just taking a snapshot of your numbers of followers once a month, or counting up how many retweets you … Continue reading
Posted in Tools, Trends and Numbers, Twitter
Tagged measure, monitor, social media for third sector, Twitter, Twitter tips
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The latest figures
Statistics are like buses: none are released for ages and then suddenly loads come at once. Or that’s how it seems this week, with new data on the user numbers for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube. So here we go: … Continue reading
Social media and development
Have you come across the CD4 network yet? Well, if you’re working in communications and for a development organisation then this may be worth a look. The peer network is invitation only, but you can find out more about it … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Video
Tagged community, development, disaster relief, social media for third sector
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Save the Children’s global twitterchat
News just in of an innovative way that the charity Save the Children is using twitter to bring together workers from around the globe, and raise awareness of childhood malnutrition. Using the hashtag #HiddenCrisis, the conversation is rolling around the … Continue reading
Posted in Case Studies, Twitter
Tagged hashtags, reach, social media for third sector, Twitter, twitterchat
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Chasing those metrics: what do followers mean?
Social media makes it easy for us to count the number of people who’ve liked our page, or who follow us on Twitter, or who’ve added us to one of their circles on Google+. This is all well and good, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Facebook, Monitoring, Trends and Numbers, Twitter
Tagged engagement, Facebook, like button, measure, monitor, reach, social media for third sector, Twitter
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How the US Peace Corps is using social media
The US Peace Corps, an organisation which sends volunteers to different parts of the globe to work on projects and develop cross-cultural understanding, is using social media to help its volunteers keep in touch once they return to the USA. … Continue reading
Posted in Case Studies, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Video
Tagged community, engagement, Facebook, social media for third sector, Twitter
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How to tweet – what do you think?
Morning, everyone. We haven’t had an infographic on this blog for minutes, so here’s one that has come from the Digital Buzz Blog. This graphic gives some tips about tweeting for maximum results, including timing your tweets and using ‘action … Continue reading
Posted in Infographic, Twitter
Tagged reach, social media for third sector, social media strategy, Twitter tips
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Going pear-shaped? Some more advice for handling crises
We’ve spoken on this blog before now about how to handle crises in your social media world, and what to do about negative comments (just look at any of the posts tagged ‘Pandora’s Box’, ‘negative comments’ or ‘crisis management’.). But … Continue reading
Use Twitter to Cope with a Crisis
Some good advice here for using your Twitter account to handle a crisis – including a useful reminder to really use those 140 characters imaginatively. There’s also the handy factoid that many journalists use Twitter as a source of, well, … Continue reading
Posted in How it Works, Twitter
Tagged crisis management, influencing, press, social media for third sector, Twitter, Twitter tips
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Hashtags: how to avoid trouble
Hashtags are a brilliant way to cluster your tweets, and those of other people, by theme or campaign. But they’re not without potential problems, especially because nobody really ‘owns’ a hashtag and people might start to use the one you’ve … Continue reading →