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Local Tweets: 9 Ways to Find Twitter Users in Your Town
The number of people visiting and using Twitter has nearly quadrupled over the past few months, and as more people sign up for the hot social networking service, it becomes more useful. Twitter is enabling everything from better customer service to easier job searches , and is being employed for some extraordinary home uses .
26 Charities and Non-Profits on Twitter
Lon S. Cohen is a writer and Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY .One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag , a topic with a hash symbol ("#") at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it. The hashtag is a favorite tool of conferences and event organizers, but it's also a way for Twitter users to organize themselves: if everyone agrees to append a certain hashtag to tweets about a topic, it becomes easier to find that topic in search, and more likely the topic will appear in Twitter's Trending Topics.
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags
Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer's Ass , which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump , and the Social Media Director for Smashyn.com .
8 Tips for a Successful Social Media Cause Campaign
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.
HOW TO: Turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media
5 Ways Non-Profits Can Increase Engagement With YouTube
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.
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