NetWits

APRIL 22, 2010

Make sure to watch the brief video to see how EpicChange has impacted the lives of many children in Arusha, Tanzania using tools like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to raise money, connect people with a cause and tell their story.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2010

Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. The call-to-action is to create a “heartspace&# for a mom you love consisting of words, photos and video. Just imagine.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school. Where do the funds go?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school. Where do the funds go?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

." The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog – A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog - A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo

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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. How are you going to honor your mom on Mother’s Day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

The money you donate to this effort will support Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a changemaker in Tanzania who once sold chickens and used her income to build a primary school that now provides a high-quality education to over 400 children in Tanzania. The program creates a mini-web page with a unique URL that declares your love. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change. Impacts to Society. What does all this really mean for us now?

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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). Enter the Contest.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Tell the story with photos or a video. Photos do not need to be professionally shot and the video does not need to be professionally filmed and edited. Set up the campaign describing the need with a heart-tugging paragraph and illustrating the need with a compelling photo or video.

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See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. Over the next few days, we’re encouraging folks to create a short video of themselves expressing what they’re thankful for this year. Watch the instructional video below, as well as three Tweetsgiving videos made by members of the See3 staff.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. Scheduled for May 3-8, 2011, the site invites participants to create socially shareable “heartspaces&# that include words, videos, photos & investments in honor of mamas they love. Learn more!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. NetSquared DC's Roshani Kothari on why she loves NetSquared.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one. What VR Can Do.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Yaw Anokwa (2010), who, along with others from the University of Washington, created the Open Data Kit, enabling Android-powered smartphones to easily collect data in the field, like text, photos, video, audio, barcodes, and location.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Here's a link to a brief preview of the October 31st show on Google video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

You may find some of these comments in the thoroughly engaging video as well, though some of the Ann’s more salient points didn’t make it into the footage. That is a huge mistake.” starts around 16:46). “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The event happens in the week leading up to Mother’s Day and provides a platform where anyone can build a heartspace with text, photos and videos to show their love for their mother, an important woman in their life, or even people that inspire them. It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog. What is it about?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. And finally, VidCaster for HootSuite allows you to view, share, and measure analytics on your videos so you can better tell your nonprofit’s story.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Jane Goodall Institute's Geoblog : The Jane Goodall Insitute has created a geoblog, the Gombe Chimpanzee Blog , Using Google Earth, the geoblog allows readers/viewers to view Gombe National Park in Tanzania while they read entries by Emily Wroblewski, a field researcher who is studying the Gombe Chimpanzees. For more info.

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