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Runaway Holiday Hashtag Campaign: Lidl’s To Donate $260K in Christmas Dinners

The Realtime Report

Global discount supermarket chain Lidl started a hashtag campaign to do some holiday social good – and may have been caught off guard when it quickly went viral. After local newspapers picked up the offer and promoted it, people started retweeting the hashtag. luxevooriedereen — Bart Aerts (@b_aerts) December 11, 2012.

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Best Practices and How to for a Twitter Hashtag Chat

Bare Feet Studios

Hashtag chats on Twitter are one of the best ways to meet new people, learn new things (it’s a very dynamic form of crowd-sourcing!), Plus, it automatically adds the hashtag for you – so less typing. I find it nearly impossible to attend a Twitter chat on my iPhone – though an iPad works fine.

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6 Great Conferences to Attend Before the End of 2012

Convince & Convert

Connect with her on Twitter. This list is of some of the best conferences still to come in 2012 that are offering amazing speakers in the business and social media marketing industries. May 24, 2012, Columbus, Ohio. June 5-7, 2012, New York, NY. June 28-July 1, 2012, San Francisco, CA. The 2012 event is in the U.S.

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How Twitter Gentrified a City Intersection

Ari Herzog

” Back in April 2012, I stumbled onto a news article about Molson M and how they wanted people to tweet with the #MolsonM_Art hashtag. Every Twitter user who included that hashtag was automatically added to the mural as a digital signature; and the company promised to donate $1 a tweet to the Canadian Art Foundation.

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Flashback: What Social Was Like in 2010 vs. 2020

Ignite Social Media

Facebook introduces liking individual comments. Twitter – 2010. Twitter’s logo Larry the Bird undergoes a makeover , becoming a sleek silhouette very similar to what Twitter uses today. However, the name Larry has since been laid to rest in favor of simply referring to the logo as “the Twitter Bird”.

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Emulate the @UN and Reply to Tweets

Ari Herzog

They’re now sharing pictures, using hashtags, and mentioning others. From Mashable’s January 2012 interview with the UN social media lead Nancy Groves, the following passage is notable: “Info can be a little slow to get out because of the translation and political review process,” says Groves. Media Twitter'

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How Indian Politicians are Using Google+ Hangouts

Waxing UnLyrical

It seems governments and their agencies and organizations have understood how powerful social media can be (Facebook, Twitter, G+) for engaging with citizens, seeking feedback, creating awareness on different initiatives, and creating a participatory model of governance. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

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