Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Last year, this campaign had hundreds of people sharing their love for hundreds of moms, and nearly $20,000 USD was raised to build a home for the TwitterKids of Tanzania and their classmates who attend Mama Lucy Kamptoni’s school in Arusha, Tanzania. Amy Sample Ward: Can Love Change The World? Carol Quinn: Your Mama.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania). Looking at all of you readers, hint hint!).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”. But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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