Engage your audiences, help supporters of your non-profit keep up
with any tagged topic on Twitter and Flickr, or publicize your event
with a custom Twitterfountain, a nifty new mashup you can embed on your blog or website —
Have you ever wanted to see what was happening at that one event you
could not go to? Did the plain text-backchannels somehow left you
feeling disappointed?
Twitterfountain comes to your aid: we mash up tweets and Flickr-images that share the same tags into a spectacular visual.
Here’s a sample — thanks to Socialfish Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer — a mashup of Twitter updates and Flickr photos, tagged #asae09, that gives us a taste of the buzz around the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) annual meeting on now in Toronto.
Get Your Own Twitterfountain
- Click on “embed code” at the bottom of the Twitterfountain, customize your tags or search terms, and choose a color;
- Click “get embed code” to copy the code to your computer’s clipboard;
- Login to your website, go into HTML edit mode, and paste the code where you want your Twitterfountain to show up.
It’s as simple as that!
(If you’ve got a self-hosted Wordpress blog, check out the Wordpress Twitterfountain plugin for even easier embedding on a post or page, or as a configurable widget for your sidebar.)
A new, cleaner, crisper version of the Twitterfountain application
is on the way, with a less intrusive title bar and more customization
options — you can preview it here
— and all the “old” Twitterfountain widgets that are currently embedded
on blogs and websites will be updated automatically with the new
version when it’s ready to go live.