Join Us For Our Second Twitter Chat

#Give4Vets

We are having another Twitter Chat! In honor of Veteran's Day, our new recognition as a Yellow Ribbon Company and Give to the Max Day, we will be discussing Veterans and housing. Join us on Thursday, November 15, 2012 from 11am-12pm. Tweet your questions and/or comments about Veterans, Veterans and housing, etc. to @tchabitat during this time. Our panel of Veterans, including Trista Matascastillo, Stacey Hunt and Brian Cihacek will answer your questions! See directions on how to participate below.

Also, please consider making a donation to Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity. We have a matching donation of $15,000 this year, so if you’ve never donated to Twin Cities Habitat before, now is the best time to do it! We’re focusing our efforts this winter on raising money to build and repair homes for Veterans in need.

How to participate in the chat:

1. Log onto Twitter. If you don’t have a Twitter account it is quick and easy to create one.
2. Follow @tchabitat
3. Tweet your questions and/or comments to @tchabitat and use the hashtag #give4vets in all of your tweets. If you have a question, start by including @tchabitat at the beginning of your question and then tag it with the hashtag. For example: @tchabitat How many veterans have volunteered with Habitat? #Give4Vets
4. If your question is selected to be answered, we will retweet your question, reply to your twitter handle and include the #Give4Vets hashtag. For example @HousingAdvocate More than 500 veterans have volunteered since July 2012
5. To see what others are asking, search for the hashtag #Give4Vets in your Twitter search bar. Twitter will automatically show you when there are new tweets.
6. Keep refreshing the page to take part in the conversation and hear answers from our guest Veteran panelists.
7. DONATE 

Important glossary for Twitter (via Support at Twitter)
Twitter handle: A username someone has selected
Retweet: A Tweet by another user, forwarded to you by someone you follow. Often used to spread news or share valuable findings on Twitter.
@: The @ sign is used to call out usernames in Tweets, like this: Hello @Twitter! When a username is preceded by the @ sign, it becomes a link to a Twitter profile.
Hashtag: The #symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It helps categorize messages.

Participate via E-mail: Don’t have Facebook or Twitter? No problem! You can e-mail your questions to Brittany.Richardson@tchabitat.org either before or during the event. We will be monitoring e-mail as well and post your questions to Twitter. We will also make sure to e-mail an answer back to you.