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Twitter Tools for your mission

posted Nov 16, 2009

Audio from our Twitter basics conference call is now up, in the Conference Calls section under November 2009. Here are some additional resources:

our blog post on things to decide before using twitter,

Frogloop's return on investment of social media and social marketing calculator

twitcause, to help your group campaign on twitter (go there and nominate a group or effort to be campaigned for)

and two services you might want to use that plug into your efforts easily, aktnow and act.ly for twitter causes and events.

Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations is a good reference.

Some popular hashtags for nonprofits listed here. Our most often used ones are #wildlife - #climate - #climatechange - #sustainable - #renewable - #urbanag - #localfood - #environment - #green #ecomonday.

Here's a useful blog post that talks about Twitter Lists and how you can use them effectively. See item #4 especially.

Lastly, here's a list of 10 things not to 'tweet' about if you can help it. Humorous, and true.

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