Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. This year, they're also enabling people to participate by tagging blog posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and blip.fm Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year. recordings.

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Tanzania Classroom Tech Social Network 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. guest blogging npfundraising nptech social media twitter. Tags: community fundraising2.0 Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes.

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Chad Twitter Org Tanzania 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

, a question asked by the Give and Take blog. Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The Working Wikily blog describes this effort as a "flash cause," I'm not sure, I think it is hybrid.

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Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. Tags: community issues otherblogs causes development funding guest blog ideablob innovation myspace social media. To some, these events were unimportant.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Tags: guest blogging. Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. I think you’re some of the most brilliant, passionate, tireless, amazing humans I’ve ever met. To be truthful, I’d rather hang out with you than just about anybody.

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Change Haiti Darfur Music 88

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Who’s read a blog post about it? It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog. Our fear should not be of losing branding, not having “control” of the conversation, or having someone post a negative comment on our blog or facebook wall; but only in not changing the world, right? Slacktivism. What is it about?

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Build Community Technology Action 220

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Tags: twitter. And there are a lot more.

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Tanzania Classroom Offline 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. Tre, who writes a blog called Thought by thought has several detailed posts analyzing the campaign here and here. Tags: working wikily fundraising2.0 What do you think?

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Twitter Raise Money Phase 51