{"id":986,"date":"2008-11-26T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=986"},"modified":"2008-11-26T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T02:33:19","slug":"twittering-for-classrooms-24-hours-of-tweetsgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Twittering for classrooms – 24 hours of Tweetsgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like bricks. I spent years donating to the Juno Beach Centre<\/a> fundraiser to buy my dad a brick. As a child, I loved Lego. Ok, I’m not kidding anyone, I still love Lego.\u00a0 But there’s something special about charity drives that involve bricks.\u00a0 They stand for something. Peace. Security. Future.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I posted about a social media fundraiser – Tweetsgiving<\/a>.\u00a0 Now that I’m not blogging from my phone, I have a bit more functionality available to my blog postings and can include direct links and other fun bits and pieces.<\/p>\n

So, what is Tweetsgiving?<\/p>\n

Tweetsgiving is a Twitter celebration of gratitude and giving created by Epic Change<\/a>, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The project aims to demonstrate the power of the social web by raising $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the campaign was launched and is geared mainly towards collecting messages of gratitude from Twitter users, you don’t need have a Twitter account to donate. Just go to tweetsgiving.org<\/a> and click on the ChipIn widget (uses PayPal).<\/p>\n

To date 5610.06$ has been collected. Half-way through the campaign and just a little over half-way to the goal.\u00a0 Tweetsgiving ends at noon on Nov 28th.\u00a0 What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n

If you’re the type who needs to get something in return – and foreigners such as Canadians won’t be able to claim any charitable donation tax deductions from donating to US based charities – you can purchase something from the Epic Change<\/a> store. Every purchase will add one or more bricks to the tally.<\/p>\n

Learn More<\/p>\n