Not another social network, just a new way of looking at Twitter.
Nestivity turns your brand’s Twitter @handle into a “Nest”, a place to engage your audience by sparking discussions and hosting live chats.
With a Nest, Tweets Don’t Fly Away
It’s now easier than ever to have real conversations on Twitter:
- Move beyond #hashtag searches
- Organize Tweets into Conversations
- Host Real-Time and Ongoing Discussions All in One Place
Social Presentations with Tweetcast
Broadcast rich-media, polls, G+ Hangouts, and more alongside real-time chats:
- Take control of your conversations with helpful moderation tools
- Use on-screen media and prompts to keep your audience on-topic
- Filter-out the noise and have focused conversations
Team Moderation
Get everyone involved with easy team moderation:
- Add your team members as moderators in your Nest
- Allow others to manage conversation topics
- Highlight special guests and subject matter experts
Ease and Efficiency
Connect with your followers in structured conversations organized around your topics:
- Leverage your followers and turn inbound tweets into conversations
- Use embeddables to share conversation topics virtually anywhere
- Follow all activity in your Nest on one screen
This presentation is a handy step-by-step training document for our community owners. Please feel free to send us a tweet @Nestivity if you have any questions.
2. Accessing Your Admin Dashboard
Accessing Your Admin Dashboard
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After you log-into your community
as the community moderator, click
the “Community Activity” tab.
3. Create
Two choices - choose the method
you prefer
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Either choose a tweet from your
feed that’s related to your discussion
topic to use as a reference/
inspiration tweet. Then click “Turn
into a discussion”.
or
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Simply click the “Create
Discussion” button to create a
discussion without a reference/
inspiration tweet.
4. Upload Your Content
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Choose the “Discussion” radio
button.
Click “Create New” project and
give this Tweetcast a project. Think
of this as a category. For example:
Marketing Topics
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Upload a photo as a thumbnail to
visually promote this Tweetcast.
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Write the Discussion Title. For
example: Join our Twitter discussion
about ____. What do you think, and
what would you do about this topic?
Provide a more in-depth description.
Perhaps a single paragraph to help
frame what this discussion is about
and why.
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Optional - Add hashtags that people
can voluntarily append to their
tweets.
Click “Continue” to proceed to next
step.
5. Upload Your Rich Media & Share/Embed Links
Upload Attachments to share as a
part of your Twitter discussion
Enrich your discussions by uploading richmedia to share with your Twitter followers.
Images (jpg, png, gif) or even videos by
pasting the “Share” links from Youtube and
Vimeo.
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Click “Choose files” to start
uploading jpgs, gifs, or png’s from
your desktop. These are the images
that will be attached and presented
on your discussion page.
Paste any web share link from
YouTube or Vimeo if you want to
share as a part of your discussion.
All of these attachments will be
available for your followers to click
through and view right on your
discussion page.
6. Preview and Publish
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You’re now looking at a preview of
your discussion page and there is
one final thing to do before this page
is published and available.
Simply look over your copy and
attachments to make sure you have
everything and there aren’t any
typos. Otherwise click the grey
“Edit” buttons to make any revisions
to text or attachments.
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Compose a new tweet in the “Notify
followers” box. This is the tweet
that will go outbound to help
promote this event. Leave the link as
is since it’s the link your followers
will need to click on to view and join
the event.
A good tweet should cover the
context of your discussion topic and
a call to action to join via the link or
reply to your Tweet from Twitter.
Click “Publish” to make the page
available to your followers. The
outbound tweet will also be sent out
to your followers.
7. Discussion Page
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You can easily compose new tweets
to send to all of your followers by
using our built-in “Promote Your
Discussion” module.
Tweet with your followers by using
the “Leave a comment” box to post
new tweets to this discussion thread.
The shortened URL is optional.
Including this in your tweet helps
others on Twitter find your Nest.
Our technology will automagically
pull the following tweets into your
discussion pages from Twitter.
1.) Tweets that include the “URL” no
matter where they were published
from.
2.) All tweets that are replies to your
“Publish New Discussion” tweet,
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“Promote Discussion” tweet, and
any “Comment” tweet published
from your Nest using your main
community account handle.
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Click any suggested #Hashtag to
append them to the tweet that you
are composing.
As a moderator, your discussions
will always show additional
functionality such as the “Embed”
button to access widgets and the
“Edit” button to makes changes at
any time.
8. Advanced Moderation Features
Optional Advanced features
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Use the “Quote and Edit” to RT
anyone in the feed
Feel free to click “Highlight” if you
would like highlight a certain tweet
from the discussion thread. Highlight
feature adds a background color on
their tweets so they stand out from
the others.
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Click the “Remove” link if anything
inappropriate or offensive appears.
9. Additional Tutorial Resources
How to Create a Tweetcast
Please visit: n5t.co/tc
Getting Started with Nestivity
Please visit: n5t.co/start