This is one of a regular series of Twitter Tips taken from our latest book: Twitter for Museums: Strategies and Tactics for Success. We’re making available part of the chapter on Using Twitter for Research, in which author Beck Tench explains how you can archive your tweets to use them for research later on. Download/view the extract [...]
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T4M Tip No 6: Using Advanced Searches
This is one of a regular series of Twitter Tips taken from our latest book: Twitter for Museums: Strategies and Tactics for Success. We’re making available part of the chapter on using Twitter for Research, in which author Beck Tench explains how you can use Contextual and User searches in really useful ways. Download/view the extract here: [...]
T4M Tip No 5: How To Add Audio, Video and Polls
This is one of a regular series of Twitter Tips taken from our latest book: Twitter for Museums: Strategies and Tactics for Success. Here, author Wendy White gives some advice on adding audio, video and polls to your tweets. Posting audio Unless bandwidth is a particular concern, I would recommend hosting all audio files you wish [...]
T4M Tip No 4: Emulate an Award-Winner
This is the fourth in a series of Twitter Tips taken from our book: Twitter for Museums: Strategies and Tactics for Success. To celebrate Museu Picasso winning the Best Social Media award at Museums and The Web 2010, we’re making available the complete chapter devoted to their case study, written by Conxa Roda, the Coordinator of [...]
T4M Tip No 3: Opening Up Your Organisation
This is the third in a regular of Twitter Tips taken from our latest book: Twitter for Museums: Strategies and Tactics for Success. Here, author Laurence Hill writes on the benefits of opening up your organisation: Arts organisations, especially smaller ones, often have knowledge gaps and capacity issues, especially around time. For those reasons it’s good [...]
T4M Tip No 2: Using Lists To Increase Your Reach
This is the second in a regular of Twitter Tips taken from our latest book: Twitter for Museums: Strategies and Tactics for Success. Here, author Dan Zambonini explains how to use lists to increase the distribution of your tweets: The Lists feature enables you to create groups of Twitter users. For example, you can make a [...]
T4M Tip No 1: Twitter and Local Museums
This is the first in a regular of Twitter Tips taken from our latest book: Twitter for Museums: Strategies and Tactics for Success. Here, author Elizabeth Stewart pinpoints the advantages of the small local museum using Twitter: In the case of small local museums, your followers may come to you not only for your thoughts on [...]
Four Great Twitter Analytics Tools
One of the exciting things about Twitter is that it’s giving rise to lots of innovative new tools – tools which don’t just measure the numbers (though of course they do that too) but analyse the content too in quite sophisticated ways. In his blog, Occam’s Razor, Avinash Kaushik highlights four great Twitter tools which [...]
Real-World Twitter in Action
A two-hour recording of our online seminar with the Women’s Museum (Dallas) and the V&A Museum (London) – with over 24,000 followers!
How To Create a Twitter Background
Want your Twitter profile to stand out and clearly communicate your museum’s brand? Here’s some useful online resources to help you do it. “You’ve probably noticed that Twitter comes with some standard backgrounds patterns that you choose from to customize your Twitter profile’s appearance. But if you want to really want to make an impression [...]