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Twitter

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Platform

  • www.twitter.com — create your twitter account here
    • hashtags.org — Hashtags was designed to accommodate the real-time news community. We provide analytic reports and indexing features to allow users to track what's happening now.  Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.  For example, we will try adding #bonner to twitter messages that are about the Bonner Program.
  • coopapp.com — Co-Op — Stay in tune with your co-workers. Ask questions, share knowledge, track time, and update agendas all in one place: Co-op.

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 Ideas & Strategies

  • From Using Social Media for Free Marketing:
      • Link the identities together. Install the Twitter App on Facebook so updating your Twitter status automatically updates your Facebook one.
      • Encourage key employees to set up their own Twitter accounts and link them to their own Facebook statuses.
      • Sign up for Twitterfeed and link your blog(s) to it. Encourage key employees to do the same. Then, when anyone posts a new blog entry, this service automatically updates the associated Twitter accounts, and if the Twitter accounts are linked to Facebook, those Facebook statuses get updated automatically. Done right, your message gets blasted to thousands (or tens of thousands) instantly.
      • Use Twitter’s search to routinely monitor what people are saying about your company and your products/services.
  • Recent blog entry & comments re Twitter's use
  • TCNJ Bonners are using Twitter to help manage service projects.  One student has all of his service fraternity students signed up and part of one group.  Then, using the text (to mobile phone) feature, he can send messages to the entire group from his cell phone or a computer. This is especially helpful for changes in meetings, quick reminders about projects, or urgent messages. As the student explained:
    • Twitter.com is a site where you essentially place your cell phone number on a texting listserve, and can sent messages out to that listserve without needing to address each individual recipient. It makes your cell phone a Blackberry, for groups without them. The listserve consists of people (only within your group if you'd like), who sign up and choose to "follow" members of that group. For instance, in my chapter of Sigma Pi at TCNJ, I am the community service chair. I have 20-some-odd followers and if I text "Adopt-A-Highway changed to 3pm - tell everyone" to 40412, all 20 people get my text and spread the word. The service has greatly reduced the number of short length e-mails containing quick, yet sometimes important updates. Bonner groups can set up an "all Bonner" listserve, and then also create lists for individual sites teams. This eliminates people receiving irrelevant texts. The service is free, takes less than 10 minutes to sign up for, and does not require much personal or ANY credit information. The single cost to the user is the price of a text message sent or received (but counts for only a single text either way). Normal rates apply, i.e. Verizon to Verizon or family plan tests would still be free. The growth of this service is exponential, with only a few followers in the beginning, but expanding rapidly once people start talking it up. My goal for TCNJ Bonner is to sign everyone up on my own though. I made an announcement at our last meeting that I was going to take care of making profiles for everyone, unless they requested to not be a part of the service. Only 3 asked not to be. I have high hopes for Twitter.com making communication more efficient within our organization. Look for updates on how it's going next week!!! 
  • For those people who use Linked-In (a professional networking site), there is also a new plug-in. As they explain:
    • Twitter App on LinkedIn

      Recently, the professional networking service LinkedIn announced 

      a new application platform. One of the first applications in the 

      directory is a neat little app built using Twitter called 

      Company Buzz. The application lets you see what people are 

      saying about the companies and topics you care about and there's 

      a neat little trending component as well. If you're on LinkedIn, 

      it's really easy to install the app: http://bit.ly/Q2of5

 

 

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