There seems to be a constant theme appearing in all the top tips for successful social networking - engagement with the audience. Communication must be both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ - two way. Ask by all means, but give too.
Leah Betancourt of Mashable has an straightfoward five point plan for making your twitter profile […]

You know it. We know it. Twitter is mainstream communication, so Openface have added Twitter to our charity benchmark criteria to ensure a meaningful, up to date and relevant report. We want to help Charities understand how to use Twitter, help those that don’t use it (yet), and help others use it better. […]

All growth cycles are just that - they go up, up, up and then down - eventually. Twitter just keeps going up - for now. On the 12th of Jan 40 million tweets were made in 24 hours, helping the site reach it’s monumental announcement of 1.2 billion tweets this Jan. Did […]

The Big Money’s Chad Matlin recently announced the Twitter 12 and explains his selection criteria for choosing 12 American corporations who are getting the most out of Twitter.
The process only considered US corporate Twitter profiles with over a million followers, their growth from September to November 09, the number and regularity of tweets and content […]

Openface is about to issue a 2009 update to the Chairty Benchmark Report, looking at the original 120 charities uptake and participation on Twitter….
How many UK charities do you think use Twitter?
Results coming in December.

Charity Benchmark Report, econsultancy.com, twitter

Thank you Mashable for pointing out that following the Spanish version, Twitter is now available in French. Simply select your language preference in the settings menu.
Bon chance.

en francais, French, settings menu, Spanish, twitter

A reminder to UK charities with an online presence that we still undertake the research for personalised charity benchmark reports.
The reports compare your site to five competitors from our benchmark against the established tried and tested set of criteria. The criteria get’s updated as the industry adapts to more tools, for instance […]

Congrats to the great PR that Public relations firm MMW Group are achieving for their on-going online mothers day campaign for 1-800-Flowers in the US. The online campaign is a component of the integrated campaign including print and tv.
Focusing on online, it is refreshing to find a ready list of tried, tested and working […]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared yesterday what Californians who suspected for months that he is running for governor in 2010. He made the declaration to his already loyal supporters following him on Twitter:
# It’s official- running for Gov of CA. Wanted you to be the first to know. Need your help. Check […]

I heard a great comment on NPR this week; “Twitter is already OVER - even US Congressmen are using it”.
Social Media seems to be so fadish - look at how Facebook took over from MySpace?
I suggest the terminology is wrong. It is not ‘over’ but ‘comon place’ instead.
In the begining […]