Thanks to a tip from Beth Kanter, I played with Tweet Clouds today. I tried three options, shown below in screen shots. The first is just my tweets, the second my tweets plus @replies and the third adds my del.icio.us tags. Fun! Notice any patterns? What I find most interesting is the difference between my tweets and my tags!
(The larger size images are easier to read, but too big for the blog page!)
I’ve been helping launch a global online workshop this week, support a massive proposal development and get ready for a F2F conference. (My session on integrating visual practices in whole systems change process has notes here.) Oh, and nurse my husband through knee surgery. So I’ve been silent on the blogging and Twitter front. I had not watched my blog stats much until I installed WordPress and, as is totally obvious, when you don’t blog, your traffic drops like a stone. Makes sense.
Same goes for Twitter. If you don’t tweet, you don’t get tweets back! Beth Kanter pointed me to TweetStats :: for NancyWhite and help me get a great visual of my Twitter patterns since I first signed up in November, 2006. I don’t tweet when I’m really busy.
D’Arcy Norman, this morning on Twitter. A sure community indicator.
This month’s NetSquared Net2ThinkTank asks bloggers to share their thoughts on How Can Nonprofits Use Twitter? Should They Even Bother?
Here ya go, Britt….
Without diving too deep, I think my advice is to learn to use Twitter as an individual who happens to work for a non profit, then with other twitterers in your NPO, think if Twitter makes sense to you. It is one of those tools which really requires a sense of the possible practices to really then think about strategic application.
This image from Allison is too good not to reblog…
Allison’s Blog: Twitter connects once again
