Nestivity - 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. Topics
Things to Consider
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Creating Your Account
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Selecting a Premium Plan
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Customizing your Nest
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Adding Moderators
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FAQs
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Additional Tutorial Resources
How to Create a Discussion
How to Create a Tweetcast
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3. Things to Consider
Thank you for expressing interest in Nestivity. This document will
serve as a simple checklist and walk-through to help you get your
community started as quickly as possible.
Examples of how customers set their
Nest objective
Choose a Twitter Handle
First thing’s first, you will need to decide which Twitter handle you’ll assign to your
community. For example: If you are @acmecorp, then your community URL will be
acmecorp.nestivity.com. This is where you’ll direct your followers to join and access
your on-going discussions & Tweetcasts that are always available to engage in.
Community Objective
Next, define clear goals for your community, to help set expectations and the proper
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context for conversations. For example:
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Provide customer resources and forums for your Twitter followers
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Invite Twitter followers to weigh in on brand related topics or trending stories.
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Host a series of live Tweetcasts to engage in real-time virtual meetings on Twitter.
In short, think about the purpose of your Nest. What’s in it for your Twitter followers?
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4. Creating Your Account - Nestivity.com
Step 1 of 7: Visit Nestivity.com
Please visit our marketing website to get
started. Our website provides more
information about the benefits of the
software, as well as information on
features, pricing, and access to helpful
blogs that we publish to help our
customers. Click any of the big blue
buttons that says, “Start Free Trial”.
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5. Creating Your Account - Connecting with Twitter
Step 2 of 7: Connect your Twitter
account
In order to provision a nest for your Twitter
account. Let’s start by connecting with the
appropriate Twitter account that you would
like to build a nest for. Please click the
“Connect with Twitter” button to
continue.
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Your Twitter account is safe with us.
We will never perform any action
with your account without your
explicit permission.
6. Creating Your Account - Authorization
Step 3 of 7: Authorize the Nestivity
App
To authorize our software, please sign-in
with the Twitter account that you would
like to build a nest for. Please click the
“Authorize App” button to continue.
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7. Creating Your Account - Account Information
Step 4 of 7: Basic Account
Information
Please fill out the basic form for our
customer account records so that you will
receive proper account related
correspondence and billing records.
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Double check that the correct
Twitter handle is authorized. Click
the “Edit” button if you need to
choose a different account.
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Add your first name.
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Add your company name.
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Add your last name.
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Add your email address for all
account and billing related emails to
be sent to.
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Read and accept the Nestivity Terms
and Conditions.
Click the “Create My Account”
once complete.
8. Creating Your Account - Selecting a Premium Plan
Step 5 of 7: Select a Nestivity Plan
Review the monthly subscription plans
available. Choose any plan FREE for the
first 30 days. We offer monthly plans with
no obligation; or choose Annual payments
for an additional 2 months free. (Annual
plans are not depicted in the screenshot)
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Review our plans to choose the one
that fits your needs.
Moderators allow you to give your team
members access to administration features
in your nest. They will be able to create,
edit, and delete discussions and
Tweetcasts. Moderators can also submit
discussion replies that appear as your main
account (Optional). They will also have the
ability to change the appearance settings
of the community. Moderators will not have
access to account info (billing) or have the
ability to add or delete more moderators.
Tweet history data storage is unique to
each plan. This determines how long each
discussion reply (tweet) is saved,
accessible, and displayed inside your Nest.
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Please click “Select This Plan” to
proceed.
or click the “Edit” links if you need
to revise your account information.
9. Creating Your Account - Billing Information
Step 6 of 7: Billing Information
A credit card is required to activate your
account with the FREE trial. All of our
monthly plans are FREE for the first 30
days. We offer monthly plans with no
obligation; or choose Annual payments for
an additional 2 months free. (Annual plans
are not depicted in the screenshot).
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Confirm that your plan is correct.
You can add any additional a’ la carte such
as additional moderation seats or longer
storage of tweet data history.
Confirm your contact info.
Add your billing information and
click the “Subscribe” button to
continue.
10. Creating Your Account - Provision Complete
Step 7 of 7: Congratulations!
Your nest is now ready to be configured
and customized.
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This screen serves as a confirmation
of the plan that you selected and the
account information that you
provided.
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Your community is now ready for
use. Click the “Configure Your
Community” button to continue.
11. Customizing Your Nest
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Add your community name. This will
appear in the browser header and
on search engines.
Examples of how customers have
customized their own nests
Upload your community logo.
Dimensions: 270x90 pixels or a 3:1
ratio.
Upload a background image or
simply choose a background color.
(Max dimensions: 2575 width x 800
height)
Choose a community link color for
all html text links.
Add text to greet 1st time visitors to
your homepage who are NOT
members of your community yet.
For example: “Welcome and please
join my Twitter community where we
discuss technology news, and
opinions.”
This text box is similar to the nonmember homepage message but
will appear once the member has
joined your community. For
example: “Welcome and thanks for
joining my Twitter community where
we’ll discuss the latest news now
trending on Twitter.”
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Additional space for any other
disclaimers or copyrights.
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Click the “Save” button to save all
of your changes at anytime.
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12. Adding Moderators
Adding Moderators
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To access your Moderator account
settings, mouse-over the “Gear
Icon” located in the upper right
corner of the navigation bar and
click the “Moderators” text link.
Our platform offers two settings
related to how you would like your
Moderators to appear within the
community.
Option 1: Check this box if you
prefer your Moderators to appear
publicly as the main community
Twitter account at all times. Then
click the “Save” button.
Option 2: Un-check the box if you
prefer your Moderators to appear
publicly as their own Twitter account
handles. Then click the “Save”
button.
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Ask your team mates to join your
Nest and sign-in at least once. Then
simply search for their name to find
their Twitter handle using our search
box. Add them by clicking the
correct handle name to add them as
a Moderator.