What has travel taught you?

  As part of my participation in the zooGooder fundraising challenge December 2-9, for which I’m supporting Global Lives Project (find out more), I wanted to share why I’m so passionate about travel and why I think Global Lives Project shares some of the important insights of travel to those who may not have the [...]

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#4Change Chat wrap-up: How Social Media Can Enhance Events

Cross-posted from the 4Change blog: On March 18 the #4Change Twitter Chat took on the topic of ‘How Social Media Can Enhance Events.’ This topic seemed particularly apropos with the chat taking place immediately after the annual SXSW takeover of Twitter, and soon before the Non-profit Technology Conference and Skoll World Forum, two other conferences [...]

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Twitter to change Suggested Users list

As I wrote about at the time, Ashoka was fortunate to have been placed on the Twitter  Suggested Users list in early October. The power of this list is amazing. We had about 9,000 followers when added, now we’re over 150,000. You can see the effect here. However, most of these new followers are not [...]

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The power of suggestion

On Friday last week Twitter added a collection of non-profit accounts to their Suggested Users list, seeming to focus on social entrepreneurship, including both organizations and individuals. These new Suggested Users included: Social Edge Skoll Foundation Kjerstin Erickson (founder of FORGE) Jacqueline Novogratz (founder of Acumen Fund) Acumen Fund Matt Flannery (founder of Kiva) Kiva [...]

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Ashoka’s approach to Twitter

This was written as a guest post for Beth Kanter’s blog, exploring how Ashoka is fulfilling our mission on Twitter: Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is relatively new to Twitter, having launched our main account, @AshokaTweets only in January. However in that time we’ve worked hard to build a community nearing 6,000 connections, sharing our [...]

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#4change wrap-up: collaboration and social media

I’ve been meaning to write a wrap-up of the #4change chat on collaboration for the week since it happened. My apologies for the delay, I’m still getting into the routine of blogging and Burning Man preparation has completely taken over ever available hour outside of work and a necessary minimum of socializing. I’ll tell you [...]

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Introduction to Twitter for non-profits

Took me awhile but I finally stuck my Introduction to Twitter for Non-Profits presentation, delivered at a OneWorld.net Workshop recently, up on SlideShare. I hope you find it interesting and useful.

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