All Blog Posts Tagged 'Twitter' (206)

For this week’s Top 10 Twitter list we’re focusing on renewable energy. There is plenty of information sharing on Twitter about renewable energy, but these are the ten folks we think are leading the charge.

• @REWorld – The world’s #1 Renewable Energy News and Information Source
• @NWcleantech – NW Cleantech is a digital community connecting cleantech innovators in the Pacific…

It’s estimated 41.6 percent of the U.S. population has a Facebook account, and 13 percent of the population is part of the Twitterverse. Once you add in sites like GovLoop, LinkedIn, Second Life and YouTube, it’s not unusual for someone to have multiple social media profiles.

Social media sites are now as much a part of American culture as baseball and apple pie. In between strikes and slices, we post and…

Beth Beck, Space Operations Outreach Manager at NASA, has 

created a national community of rocketry and exploration 

enthusiasts.   And she’s helped a generation unfamiliar 

with the thrills of NASA’s Mercury and Apollo eras understand 

that the space agency is more than budget battles and tragically 

lost Space Shuttles.  How has Beck boosted outer space to 

a…

Looking for the Apps for the Environment contest? The correct URL is http://www.epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment . Sorry for the mistake!

We're having a great discussion about how to help employers pick you out of a stack of resumes on a blog post I wrote a few days ago.

One of the suggestions…

It is partly out of self-interest that I write a response to Bill Keller's NYTimes Op-Ed, "The Twitter Trap"; I am a Social Media Director.



But more than that, I think Bill's a smart guy who deeply…

This is the second part of a series inspired by Susan Ward’s article on About.com featuring “…

A few weeks ago, Twitter redesigned its homepage, going from

to

One of the biggest elements they removed was Trending Topics. This was a feature that was front and center in Twitter’s second redesign, showing what was popular by the minute, day or week. Then in the third redesign, Trending Topics shrunk to a small, unobtrusive line. Now in the fourth iteration, it’s gone.

Thank…

We are very fortunate to have a very clever developer on hand who created some incredibly useful Twitter tools for us. Even better, we put them out as open source code on GitHub for you to use.  

But what do these tools do and why should you be interested in them?

1. Backup your tweets on a daily basis to an xml file on your local network
2. Use keywords to send an auto direct message.  Free text messaging via Twitter!
   1. If someone sends us (@wsdot) a…

Let's face it.  You're well aware of Twitter.  Your favorite yogurt is tweeting, your dry cleaner, your sister, and local government.  But once you actually manage to pick a twitter handle name, sign up, and follow your first 100 people, you seem to enter upon a room where people are chatting non-stop, and seemingly, to each other.  As you sit in front of your computer, scrolling through the tweets, you suddenly feel time-warped back to being 14 years old, and walking into the cateteria of a…

Wow - has anyone seen this live tweeting account of the U.S. military operations that took out Osama Bin Laden?

Fascinating - read from the bottom up!…

One of the two implications of the paradigm shift I wrote about was the movement from an information economy in which providers pushed out their content to one in which consumers pulled it into their feed.  This movement started with the advent of RSS feeds and has hit a high point in link shortening and sharing on Twitter and facebook.



The data that prove this shift are all around.  in 2010,…

(This blog post was originally published in the Social Media in Organizations (SMinOrgs) S.M.A.R.T. Blog. It's been fairly widely read and well received, and I thought GovLoop folks might be interested as well.)

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Thanks to Twitter, it’s as easy to keep up with your favorite celebrity as it is to stay in touch with your best friend. An estimated 200 million users send more than 65 million tweets every day. These days, if you want people to talk about it, you should tweet about it.

Our Twitter…

In the wake of the recent disasters in Japan, many organizations used Twitter to raise donations for the relief effort overseas. However, Microsoft’s Bing pledged $100,000 and received a lot of criticism for their generous pledge.



On March 12, Bing tweeted “How can you #SupportJapan? For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K.”



Some may think it’s a clever way…

Social Media allows the IRS Recruitment Office to communicate and network with job applicants at any time and from any place. The key to our success is integration; every tool is part of a well-oiled social media machine.

By…

SxSW Interactive, one of the best technology conferences you can attend, kicks off today in sunny Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, even though I'm only one mile away, won't be attending this year. But that doesn't mean I can't keep up with what's going on in my favorite sessions.

At 2:00PM CST, Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O'Reilly media and brilliant web guru,…

Anyone on Twitter knows the game: you update your status with no more than 140 characters, including spaces and hashtags.  According to Twitter data, there are around 750 tweets posted every second – that’s almost 65 million tweets per day. Getting your tweet in front of the right audience can be a bit of a challenge. A challenge met by using effective hashtags.

Enter this guy: #  

Previously stuck in a role as an obscure ‘pound’ or ‘number’ sign, this…

A recent study by the Pew Center shows some interesting facts about Twitter usage.  Facts that are so interesting, they might be worth paying attention to.  There has been a push recently for Open Gov and public facing interaction from the public sector.  Many agencies have started to use Twitter...but are they using it in the right way?  Lets take a look at a few facts from the study.

• 62% of people are posting work related information on Twitter. "It…