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This week here at Twitter HQ we were lucky to have Mark Horvath, @hardlynormal, of Invisible People come into Twitter and talk about his work using social media to empower the homeless population in the USA. Mark was finishing up a cross-country bike tour to raise...

The wonderful Beth Kanter has a great post up about the use of social media by foundation leaders. Note the interesting graph showing exactly what type of "social media" foundation leaders are most likely to use. Spoiler? Newsletters! (We all should have guessed...

Did you know today is Social Good Day? Was it auspicious that I had tea with Chrysi from (RED) yesterday? I think so... Head on over to Mashable to see what's happening.

Like others this morning, I saw this tweet circling the web: Although my first thought centered around how sad I was for the millionth time to not be at the social good events in New York this week (Chris Hughes announced his plans at Mashable's Social Good...

Although I am a proud employee of @Twitter, even if I weren't I still might love the new video that @jenna, @briggietweets and others made for the #NewTwitter. While re-watching it for the umpteenth time today I wanted to point out the "force for good" or "pro-social"...

Is here. #NewTwitter here we come.

Did you know it's literacy day? Twitter and Room to Read have been working together for nearly a year now, and we're excited to launch our great microsite on Twitter (through our Hope140.org hub for causes). The coolest part is fantastic widget that Patrick,...

One of my favorite books of the year was The Blue Sweater, by Acumen Fund's Jacqueline Novogratz. See her talking about it here: There's a fantastic post over on BethKanter.org talking about The Blue Sweater 500 challenge -- a way to encourage others to spread the...

I was so excited to find this amazing photo the other day. Look closely and you'll see my best friend and co-founder of Hope Runs, Lara Vogel, reading Leaving Microsoft to Change the World. The great part is this photo was taken circa 2006 in Kenya, back when we were...

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild is another incredible book about Africa. Specially about King Leopold of Belgium's disastrous role in what is now Congo (the former Belgian Congo, the former Zaire)....

One of the orphanages I used to work at, Tumaini Children's Home, recently sent me their new "updated" website. They are really excited about the site, and I don't want to damper the joy, but I'm having a tough time seeing how this will prove a good fundraising tool -...

I have read Alexandra Fuller's book about her life growing up in Africa more than four times now. I simply love it. Here's a quote that stands out, about Fuller's mother: "She has twenty feet of copper wire hanging from the trees, attached to shortwave radio. She is...

Following Sammy's summer back home in Kenya this year, Lara and I had him write a letter about the trip to send out to those who helped fund his summer home. Hello I couldn’t believe one whole year was over but how exited I was to go back home! I was to arrive on a...