Gregory Heller's Digital Bits

How Foundations Are Using Twitter And How They Can Use It Better

Last week I wrote up some research we conducted at CivicActions. The research and blog post took a look at the largest 36 foundations using Twitter (based on the size of their endowment). What I found was a wide variance in the twitter metrics: follower and followign counts, tweeting frequence, etc... check out the post for the details.

This week I wrote a short guide with tips and advice designed to help foundations and nonprofit organizations jump start their use of Twitter.  Esentially the idea is to provide a very short roadmap to get these organizations out of the gate and using Twitter regularly to advance their mission and serve their strategic goals.

Tweets (@gregoryheller)

Getting a taste of the big easy from @whereyaatmatt to celebrate #MardiGras - 16 hours 20 min ago
@MomijiSeattle & @MarjorieCapHill have similar avatar/icons/logos. Sometimes they confuse me in the twitter stream. - 17 hours 11 min ago
I'm not sure that the ticket buying experience through ticketmaster could be any less user friendly. - 17 hours 25 min ago
I just ordered some new moo cards http://t.co/7tdAetbg - 18 hours 35 min ago
This is a voice the food world needs." -- NYTimes on @TMMcMillan #AWE http://t.co/agtKODZ2 - 20 hours 4 min ago

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