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Time once again for a quick roundup of the 10 most popular links I tweeted last month. Twitter continues to be a fixation for many of us, but there also was lots of interest in storytelling, internal communication and social media in general. In order of popularity:

Advice From the Pros: Telling It Like It Is courtesy of Brain Traffic, noted content strategist Kristina Halvorson‘s firm, preaches the gospel of short, sweet and simple (my kind of sermon).

Content Creation Strategy for Nonprofits is a slide deck from Kivi Leroux Miller on how you can effectively manage all the content you create in support of your marketing and communication efforts.

Peter Shankman, the man behind HARO, asks the eternal question, Is Your Social Media Expert Really an Expert?

Time for a Twitter Reality Check, courtesy of yours truly, takes a look at the reality behind the hype that is Twitter (and I’ll be reviewing some of the feedback I received in my next post).

6 Lessons From the Best Marketing Campaign Ever looks at how an unlikely underdog stunned the marketing world at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

Wild Apricot did us all a real service in compiling Social Media for Nonprofits: 26 Presentations. Now there’s no excuse for not being ready to explain this stuff to your organization.

Kevin Spacey Explains Twitter to Letterman pretty much sums it up. Watch it. It’s funny stuff.

Use of Social Networking Tools Growing in Nursing, Medical Schools looks at a new study that finds growing popularity of Web 2.0 tools in health curricula.

How to Tell Your Story in 100 Words or Less is my take on the value we all can derive from having an elevator pitch.

Internal Communications and Twitter is me again on how Twitter might be used to support an effective internal communications program.

That’s it for July’s tweets. I’m out there every day in search of useful info on communications, marketing, social media and more, so be sure to follow me on Twitter so you don’t miss the good stuff.

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I try to tweet daily links to content I’ve run across that I think is worth your attention. Thought it might be a good idea to post the most popular of these in case you’re not following me on Twitter. Here are the 10 links I tweeted in May that attracted the greatest attention:

8 Key Elements for Effective Internal Communications (courtesy of Nancy Schwartz, whose Getting Attention blog is one of the top nonprofit marketing reads)

Twitter a Bigger Threat Than Bloggers to Newspapers? (an op-ed by Edward Wasserman, Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University)

Why Communicators Don’t Get LinkedIn (by Geoff Livingston, a PR strategist whose blog should be on your reading list)

50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business (a great list by social media expert Chris Brogan)

Twitter: A Marketer’s Duct Tape (both are incredibly simple, flexible, available and cheap, says Harvard Business blogger John Sviokla)

Nonprofit News (the American Journalism Review takes a look at the trend in investigative and enterprise journalism funded by foundations)

Social Media Marketing Example: National Geographic (one in a series by Lisa Braziel of Ignite Social Media)

Push vs. Pull in Media Relations (at Journalistics, a great blog tracking trends in journalism)

15 Steps to Small Business Online Marketing Success (from Joe Pulizzi, one of the leaders of the content marketing revolution)

Developing Social Media Policies (actually fourth in a four-part series on SM policies)

Each of these is well worth a read. Check them out.