Author: Teresa Gorman

Your One Twitter Tip

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    Holding a very basic Twitter training session tomorrow. If you could give only one twitter tip, what would it be?

    Teresa Gormangteresa

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:23:24

  2. The Tips:
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    @gteresa Reconsider for at least 15 seconds before hitting send.

    Will KaneWillKane

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:26:22

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    @gteresa Add genuine value to the mix (i.e. Don’t just peddle your own links), and stick to a theme so people know what they’re going to get

    Andrew Haegandrewhaeg

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:26:17

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    @gteresa #HashTagEffectively

    Shane O’Neillstroneill

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:25:40

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    @gteresa Have fun!

    Ian Hillianhillmedia

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:28:40

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    @gteresa Reply! Reply to people and start conversations that often become relationships. 🙂

    Sarah Fidelibusverbalcupcake

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:42:47

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    @gteresa don’t be afraid to use hash tags! joining conversations is key.

    Christine CassisChristineCassis

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:50:33

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    @gteresa ask more questions, start and contribute to conversations

    Katelyn Polantzkpolantz

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:50:10

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    @gteresa twitter tip: make your bio interesting and include a link to your work / organization.

    elizabeth shellelizabeth_shell

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 18:02:16

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    @gteresa Work monitoring into your everyday life. Engage by asking questions about other tweets you genuinely find interesting.

    Angie J. SanderspronouncedALJ

    Tue, Mar 20 2012 17:40:06

Experiments with hashtags and crowdsourcing

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    Pbs
    Fri, Mar 16 2012 21:17:28
  2. The PBS NewsHour team decided to craft a way for the public to help report the facts of their airport security experience so we could better report the story for Thanksgiving of 2010. Thus, the #TSATime hashtag was born on Twitter.
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@NewsHourLive 9/11 anniversary tweeting memorial

  1. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET Sept. 9, 2011, the PBS NewsHour’s @NewsHourLive account tweeted the nearly 3,000 names of the victims of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The tweets ended about 3 a.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 12. It allowed people to follow and see names show up on their feed or check in on the account periodically throughout the weekend.
  2. This blog post previewed the tweeting memorial:
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    Starting now, @NewsHourLive will tweet the nearly 3,000 names of the victims of the attacks on 9/11 to.pbs.org/nHKTrO
    NewsHourNewsHour
    Fri, Sep 09 2011 00:14:47
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    Charles Alan Zion, World Trade Center
    NewsHourliveNewsHourlive
    Fri, Sep 09 2011 00:01:23
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“The news doesn’t stop. Neither should you.”

  1. “The news doesn’t stop. Neither should you.”
  2. In response to the hacking of the PBS and PBS NewsHour websites, I acted quickly to inform our followers that Tupac was in fact, still dead, and kept them updated on the situation as it continued. Later, at my suggestion, we turned to Tumblr, when our site was completely down.
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