Category Archives: Causes
Twitip: Using Twestival To Increase Your Audience
A a way to promote Twestival in general and Nottingham Twestival in particular, my post Using Twestival To Increase Your Audience While Helping Raise Money for Charity, has been included at Twitip.com. The post covers the benefits of being involved … Continue reading
Twitter Goes Mainstream
This week has seen much attention around some of the celebrities that have started posting on Twitter. @schofe, @wossy and @rustyrockets have been posting very frequently, and more importantly, interestingly. Stephen Fry is a well established celebrity on Twitter and … Continue reading
Nottingham Twestival
Well, it’s official. Nottingham Twestival takes place on Thurs 12th Feb 2009 at The Castle pub. A Twestival is both a meetup for Twitter users and fundraising event for charity:water. Events are taking place worldwide, take a look at the … Continue reading
Campaign by the Internet, Govern by the Internet
A shadow loomed but Gordon Brown backed down on the MP’s expenses row. This was in part achieved by the efforts of mysociety. They even had a helping tweet from Stephen Fry. By encouraging use of WriteToThem as shown by … Continue reading
Starbucks Gingerbread Latte Gets REDder
Starbucks has teamed up with Product (RED) for Christmas, sorry, the holiday season. I didn’t remember to obsess about the countdown to Gingerbread Latte’s coming back into the shop but that’s OK because others did. That’s assuming that a Gingersnap … Continue reading
Shaving Private Ryan
Ryan Carson is the next charity head shaver after Kevin Rose. He’s hoping to raise a staggering £20,000, using a mix of promotion on Twitter and at FOWA. Donations accepted via his JustGiving page. His chosen charity is AbilityNet: AbilityNet … Continue reading