Category Archives: Twitter Tips

How to create successful chats on Twitter with hashtags (video)

Next Tuesday I’ll be leading an online session for Philanthopy.com about building communities on Twitter (follow @Philanthropy for details). Communities do not just happen. And they certainly don’t happen over night. You have to have something important to talk about. And you have to be prepared to consistently connect people together over a period of months….

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Twitter now tags your location by enabling geotagging

Today Twitter enabled geo-tagging for third party tools, allowing users the ability to tag tweets with their current location. From the Twitter support site: “Twitter’s Geotagging feature allows users who opt-in to the service to selectively Geotag their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about their surroundings. This great new…

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Why Twitter lists are huge for your non-profit or small business [video tutorial]

Twitter lists are guaranteed to be the next huge (and I mean HUGE!!!!)  game changer for Twitter. When Twitter lists first came out, I thought: “OK, so users can now make lists of other users based on any criteria.” For example a list of companies that are hiring, a list of Onion editorial staff or…

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Accept gift cards as donations with givezooks!

Grain of Salt Disclaimer: Even though I’m one of the sweetest, nicest people you’ve ever met, I must tell you that givezooks pays me a teeny weeny bonus for any business I refer to them. Oh – I’m honest too. ————————————— Back in July, I partnered with givezooks! on a webinar called “10 steps to…

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Twitter Is Launching Shared User Lists!

Nick Kallen (@nk), a project lead at Twitter wrote on the corporate blog about a new “lists” feature they’ve been testing with a subset of users. Users of Twitter.com will soon have the ability to create custom lists of specific users. Tweetdeck and Seesmic currently have users list features, but soon all Twitter users will…

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