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).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Alongside it, Twitter has also detailed a campaign it discovered in Tanzania, which used copyright complaints to harass members and supporters of the FichuaTanzania human rights group. Hundreds of the tweets were linked to an account with the handle @fuck_next, while others tried and failed to tag former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

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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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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

But for their day-to-day work, biomeds have long relied on a rag-tag set of web resources to get the job done. Among the most popular is Frank’s Hospital Workshop , a Tanzania-based site that hosts hundreds of medical device manuals — it’s the unofficial biomed bible,” Wiens writes.

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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. Tags: community fundraising2.0 Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. These examples show just some of the ways Twitter can enable real-time fundraising.

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See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. All you have to do is upload it to YouTube, tag it with “Tweetsgiving&# , and include the tweetsgiving.org URL in your video description. Tags: Video fundraising youtube storytelling social media web 2.0 Any questions? Write in the comments below.

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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 So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Here's a few how-to resources that relate to the camera and software that were used to create the On the Road: Tanzania video blog. Tags: screencast vlog. FLIP Camera. Have an example you want to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

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. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. The holy grail metrics is missing?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ). If a platform were to disappear, would the community be able to continue on?

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

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. It instantly becomes less about numbers and more about impact. And that’s hard to ignore.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Freedom Fone was introduced at two radio stations: Radio Maria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Volta Star radio in the Volta region of Ghana. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. In Tanzania, Sullivan bought a second-hand computer locally to host the Freedom Fone software.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Share the campaign to your personal Facebook profile and tag a few friends to make sure they see the posts. Notice the low goal and the small, solvable problem: Here’s another sample $5 Friday from Beautiful Feet Ministries of Tanzania. Challenge your Board members and a few key donors to ask five or ten friends to chip in just $5.

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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. Tags: working wikily fundraising2.0 I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ? I suspect the amount raised will be impressive. What do you think?

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