9. Google Alerts Choosing comprehensive alerts pulled from the web in general and included blogs.
10. Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets . Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter According to a Pew report, 19% of online Americans use twitter. As of October 2009.
13. A better way to search is to visit http://search.twitter.com
14. I’m not quite ready for an account. Can I see what it’s about? Yes. Go to search.twitter.com
15. NOTE: All the listed tweets have the word “nonprofit”. In green, below the tweet, you’ll see Charleston, SC as the location of the “tweeter”. This is because we selected tweets in a Charleston zip code (29403).
16. http://twitter.com/TinaArnoldi/chsnonprofits You can also watch what other nonprofits in the Charleston area are doing by going to the web site listed below. This is a list Tina compiled of 50+ local nonprofit organizations on twitter.
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20. A blog (a contraction of the term weblog ) is a type of website , usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
27. Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. [1] Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook Facebook is the 2 th most trafficked web site in the world!! Source: Alexa.com, 06/10