<div>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">National Federation of the Blind</strong><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Date: Wed, May 12, 2021 at 5:02 PM<br>Subject: Upcoming Twitter Chat, May 13 #NFB21<br></div><br>
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<h1><span style="font-size:24pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Join Our Twitter Chat: Answer Six Questions about National Convention</span></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Join the National Federation of the Blind on Twitter, Thursday, May 13, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. eastern, to talk about the upcoming virtual <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=21178&qid=5310912" rel="nofollow" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">national convention</a>. Follow along using the hashtag #NFB21. This email includes the questions for the chat that anyone can answer, Twitter chat tips, and more general tips on using Twitter. Let’s get social and talk about convention! The questions for the chat are listed below. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Q1: Please introduce yourself and let us know what year was your first National Convention? #NFB21<br>
Q2: For someone who hasn’t attended before, how would you describe convention? #NFB21<br>
Q2a: If you haven’t attended before, what questions do you have about convention? #NFB21<br>
Q3: What topics would you like to hear about during general session? #NFB21<br>
Q4: How are you making this year’s virtual convention feel like the ones we’ve had in person? #NFB21<br>
Q5: What sessions and activities are you excited about? #NFB21<br>
Q6: Since you get to choose your meal this year, what will you be having as your banquet dinner? #NFB21</span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:20pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Twitter Chat Tips</span></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A Twitter chat is a scheduled, organized, topical conversation on Twitter centralized around a specific hashtag. Here are some helpful tips to participate:</span></span></p>
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<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Find the chat either by searching for the hashtag or going to the <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=21169&qid=5310912" rel="nofollow" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">@NFB_Voice profile</a>.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In every response during the Twitter chat, include the designated hashtag.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Include the question number in your response. For example, question one may be, "Q1: Introduce yourself." Start your reply with A1 to coordinate your answer to the corresponding question.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Engage with others in the chat. The chat isn’t only for answering the set questions but also to encourage, support, and assist others who are part of the chat. Tweet, reply, retweet.</span></span></span></li>
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<h2><span style="font-size:20pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold">General Twitter Tips</span></span></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The idea behind <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=21170&qid=5310912" rel="nofollow" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Twitter</a> is to very concisely say what you are thinking or doing, in 280 characters or less. When you sign up for Twitter, you’ll create a username or handle. This is what people will associate with you along with the name you list. For example, our National Federation of the Blind username is NFB_Voice. In your profile, you’ll be able to add a little more information about yourself such as a brief bio, your picture, and your location. When you create a tweet, which
is what posts are called on Twitter, it will be listed under your profile. By placing the @ symbol in front of a username, you can tag (mention) another user in your tweet.</span></span></p>
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<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A follower is someone who follows you on Twitter and sees your updates on their home feed; you can follow people back to see their tweets in your home feed.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Your home feed displays a stream of tweets from accounts you have chosen to follow on Twitter.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Retweet (RT) is a way for someone to share a tweet from another user’s account.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A hashtag is when you use the # symbol in front of any word or phrase to tag your tweets. When someone clicks that hashtag, they see your tweet along with everyone else’s tweets using that same exact term.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Be sure to turn on the feature to compose image descriptions, or alt-text, which can be found in settings. If you create a post with an image, a field will then populate to include the description.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">If you are using Twitter on your iPhone or Android, the Twitter app is fairly accessible. On iOS, Twitterrific is another popular app that has taken accessibility very seriously. On your desktop computer, you can use Twitter by going to the website <a href="http://twitter.com" target="_blank">twitter.com</a>. You can also choose to download a client called TWBlue. Because of Twitter’s decisions about what to allow outside apps to access, these clients are not always up-to-date with your direct messages, but they do provide an ad-free and easy-to-access way of reading and writing tweets.</span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">We hope to see you on Twitter!</span></span></p>
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