The Net Naturalist

A field guide to social media.

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Category: birds

  • Common Mistakes to Avoid While Tweeting

            1. Starting a tweet with a reply. No – “@johnhaydon has compiled a great list of Twitter resources [link] ” Yes –“Great list of Twitter resources by @johnhaydon [link]! While it’s always great to mention someone in your tweet- if you do this you will only be updating the people who…

  • Identifying Wildlife With Question and Answer Sites

    Identifying Wildlife With Question and Answer Sites

    I like to share great examples of nonprofits using social media, and I get even more excited when people engage around wildlife. I saw a great example in wildlife identification from Virgina State Parks on their Facebook page. They asked their friends to help them identify this bird–> We’ve talked about the benefits of crowdsourcing, but more and…