Haiti, Cholera, and Twitter — A Small Step in Disaster Management via Twitter

by clairediazortiz | Nov 27, 2010 | Philanthropy, Twitter

Although we launched this integration a couple weeks ago, I realize I’ve been remiss to post about it here! This is definitely one of the more inspiring projects I’ve worked on lately, and I’m eager to create such partnerships with other...

Twitter Provides Disaster Relief in Indonesia

by clairediazortiz | Nov 25, 2010 | Disaster Management

In the face of the disaster(s) in Indonesia, Twitter is being used in extremely innovative ways in disaster response. Read more about it in these excellent articles here and here, and make sure to check out the @jalinmerapi Twitter account, which is a source of some...

Personal Democracy Forum…Si!

by clairediazortiz | Nov 19, 2010 | Conferences

It’s been such a pleasure to be here at the Personal Democracy Forum in Santiago, Chile this week. Not only have I had a great time returning to the place where I studied for a term during university, but I have learned so much about the changes in the country...

What are the Roots of Happiness?

by clairediazortiz | Nov 13, 2010 | Uncategorized

Think Kindness is a non-profit organization that has spent some time in the last year visiting Tumaini Children’s Home — where I lived for a year, and where I co-founded Hope Runs, a non-profit organization. I am so happy to see the promo video for their...

The T.W.E.E.T. Model for Excelling on Twitter — Illustrated!

by clairediazortiz | Nov 7, 2010 | Tips, Twitter

I was so happy to find that Rob Cottingham of Social Signal took the T.W.E.E.T. framework I developed to teach non-profits how to excel on Twitter and made it better — by illustrating it! Remember, I can talk about this framework for hours — there are so...