With a few hours to spare, TweetsGiving, a web-based project set up to help build a classroom in a Tanzania school has surpassed its goal of raising $10,000. What’s interesting is how word spread ...

Two years ago, the charity Epic Change introduced the idea of Tweetsgiving as the centerpiece of a Thanksgiving fund-raising effort on Twitter. The event proved so successful, raising roughly $42,000 ...

The Twitter message started simple enough two years ago: What are you thankful for? Happy Tweetsgiving! But it also included a link to a website that told the story of Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a woman ...

During the Thanksgiving holiday, there’s plenty of gratitude and cheer to go around. EpicThanks, a non-profit organization is helping to raise money through Twitter for charitable causes. 2010 is ...

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably heard of Tweetsgiving (which started yesterday!) and the Twitter Kids of Tanzania. In last night’s The Social Nerdia Show! I had an awesome conversation with ...

Two days before last year’s Thanksgiving, Stacey Monk sent out a series of messages on Twitter that would turn her tiny charity, Epic Change, into a case study on ...

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Will you be tweeting this Thanksgiving season? Well, you should be. Life is meaningless unless you can boil it down to 140 characters or less, after all. So that's where Tweetsgiving 2009 comes in.

Tweetsgiving, The Girl Effect and (Lil) Green Patch. Mention these campaigns at a cocktail party of social media experts in the nonprofit world and you’ll get a knowing smile and instant conversation ...