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What Gives?! Interview
A quick interview with What Gives?! My name is indeed now Claire Diaz Ortiz -- just to clear up any confusion! Claire Williams Diaz of Twitter from What Gives on Vimeo.
My Socialbrite Interview: What is Social Innovation at Twitter?
I just saw this video interview of me posted by JD Lasica of Socialbrite: How Twitter helps the social good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Socialbrite is an awesome website about social good and the web, and I get lots of inspiration from their articles;) You can check out...
Haiti, Cholera, and Twitter — A Small Step in Disaster Management via 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 international mobile carriers...
Twitter Provides Disaster Relief in Indonesia
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!
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 in the...
What are the Roots of Happiness?
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 upcoming...
The T.W.E.E.T. Model for Excelling on Twitter — Illustrated!
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 many great...
What I do at Twitter (A Video About Social Innovation)
I was pleased last week to present at the Ignite panel at Blackbaud's conference in DC. The conference was the chance to get together with an amazing group of leaders in the non-profit and technology space. In (just!) 5 minutes I had to give an overview of my role at...
A Good Integration
Do you read Twitter's main blog? If so, the you would have seen a great piece today about how Kiva is using the new Twitter in a unique way. Check out the article, or check your tweet stream (you are following the main @Twitter, account, right)? I retweeted here:
Beat Cancer is Here – Are You Taking Part?
Are you taking part in the worldwide social media movement that is #beatcancer? You should be! Here's why: Livestrong wants to beat its own Guinness World Record for “Most Widespread Social Networking Message.” Last year they managed 209,771 unique mentions in 24...
The T.W.E.E.T. Model at BlogWorld And Elsewhere…
I'm please to be here at BlogWorld this week presenting in the Causes track. Today's presentation with Beth Kanter of Zoetica and Danielle Brigida of National Wildlife Federation went off without a hitch, and I was thankful to have so much active participation from...
It’s Blog Action Day!
Today -- October 15, is Blog Action Day. What to know what that means? Find out here.
Twitter in Africa?
I just wanted to point out a very important Tweet I posted today on Twitter's @Hope140 account. Do you have a great use-case of how Twitter is being used in Africa? We'd love to hear it!
Rock the Vote on Twitter?
We just posted an interesting guest post by some of the folks at Rock the Vote about what they're doing this year with Twitter, celebs, and -- you guessed it -- voting! Check it out here.
The Nike CR Report – A Good (Long) Read
I had some great reading material today that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in cause marketing and reading up on what big brands are doing these days. Laura Adams of Nike passed along the Nike CR report. Check it out here. As she advised, "It's...