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A Zen Peacekeeper Guide to Twitter: Using Twitter for Good

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Using Twitter for good: Case study one – Epic Change and Mama Lucy raise money for a school and home for children in Tanzania.

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A Zen Peacekeeper Guide to Twitter: Avoiding Twitter Overwhelm

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Latest on the Zen Peacekeeper approach to Twitter, answering a question from a reader: How do you keep up with all the people you follow? My answer: I don’t, at least not all the time, and when I do, it is thanks to Twitter lists and TweetDeck.

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A Zen Peacekeeper Guide to Twitter: hashtags and chats

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Zen Peacekeeper’s Guide to Twitter: Get chatting! Using hashtags and TweetChat to join in real-time Twitter chats.

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Zen Peacekeeper Guide to Twitter: Expanding the conversation

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Episode four in the Zen Peacekeeper’s guide to Twitter. This week – how to ‘retweet’.

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Zen Peacekeeper Guide to Twitter: Join the conversation

Monday, March 15th, 2010

This is the third in a short guide to Twitter. This week: how to join the conversation, using mentions and replies to connect with your ‘right people’ on Twitter.

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Zen Peacekeeper’s Guide to Twitter: 10 easy steps to get started

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Last week I started a series of short posts sharing what I know about Twitter. If you missed it, you can read the first post here: What is Twitter and how does it work? These Twitter posts will pop up once a week and although I have some ideas about the topics they’ll cover, please [...]

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Introducing: A Zen Peacekeeper’s Guide to Twitter

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

People often ask me to explain what Twitter is and how it works. This is the first in a new series of posts about how Twitter can help writers, conscious activists, social change champions and zen peacekeepers!

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Natural dignity of gentleness

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Confidence brings the natural dignity of gentleness. You can afford to be gentle. You are not pretending to be gentle in order to achieve something by it, but you have a general sense of gentleness, which means you are being kind to yourself. Sometimes when the warrior feels doubtful about himself, he might have a [...]

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Top ten tips for Zen Peacekeepers No 1: How to learn a new language

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Ask your colleagues to speak to you in their own language as much as possible.    Slowly and sadly come to accept that you are not going to learn by osmosis. Find a language teacher and arrange for him to come to your guesthouse for lessons. Find a chaperone to join your lessons in order to [...]

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