Social Media Reux

Thanks to everyone who attended the social media workshop on Thursday, April 9.

For resources and websites referred to in the talk, visit delicious.com/chriscasquilho - appropriate information will be under tags "twitter," "facebook," "social media," "tools," and "nonprofit."

We look forward to seeing you all again - and until then, follow us @chriscasquilho @anabozny @euap @T_Tobias. Join the Emerging Upstate Arts Professionals Facebook Group.

Tweets for the Tweet

For those of you exploring the seamy digital underbelly of social networks, EUAP now has a Twitter profile. Follow it @euap.

There is also a hashtag #euap that you can include in tweets relating to this group.

For those of you trying to enforce some kind of order on this chaos, check out TweetDeck, iTweet (for iPhones), Twidget (Mac OS), and Twitterfox (add-in for Firefox).

Finally, if you're still wondering what it's all for and why you should bother, check out the following links:

http://philanthropy.com/live/2009/02/social_media/

corporatedollar.org

bethkanter.org

De-tweet

Hi folks-

I was over-exuberant in my hashtag excitement. I had it up and running for a day, and it made a bungled mess.

Refer to the previous post, but ignore everything about twitterfeed - still a good service, just not for that. If you're tweeting, you can still use the hashtag...

I'm slightly out of my league...

Posted by Chris Casquilho

Hey, man, can I tweet your hashtag?

It sounds...well...like a really bad come on, or maybe a script for a grungy-vice-cop TV pilot.

But it's not! Tweeting a hashtag is the wave of the future. Moreover, it's the wave of our future.

For those of you unfamiliar, check out Twitter for the basic mechanics of the platform.

Once you're signed up and running, check out this commentary on hashtags.

Also read this.

If you want to follow the #euap hashtag via SMS on your cell phone, you'll need to:

1. register for twitterfeed
2. follow the following rss: http://hashtags.org/tag/euap.rss UPDATE: Twitterfeed doesn't work well for this application...wouldn't recommend it - Chris Casquilho

Then, start following #euap for tweets of earth-shattering importance!

Some of this is a little foggy feeling at first - but that seems to be the nature of these things. There's been a lot of learn-as-you-go and wiki-style help features. This might not be the end product, but it's the way of things for now. If you're looking for clear answers, social media isn't for you. But then again, where else are you getting clear answers...