Day 12 of #12DaysOfGiving challenge features one of my newest favorite people: Beth Kanter (@Kanter).
If anyone has inspired us to the truth that people want to give back and help out, it's Beth. Her twitter bio reads, quite humbly:
Let's talk about networked approaches & social media for training and capacity building for the nonprofit sector that leverage learning and impact.
but the fact that she has over 400,000 followers shows that she does far more than talk. She leads.
Her charity of choice is the Sharing Foundation.
Let’s Help Send Some Cambodian Kids To College
I’ve been participating in the #12DaysofGiving , a 12-day bonanza of giving, sharing, and promoting social good from 12/13 to 12/24. Each day a different blogger champions a cause. Today is the last day and it is finally my turn! I’m fundraising for the Sharing Foundation, that supports children and young people in Cambodia.
HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE! DONATE HERE!
Why this charity? Because my ...
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For Day 11 of the #12DaysOfGiving challenge, we are thrilled to feature Lisa Hammond, The Barefoot CEO (@TheBarefootCEO).
Lisa is a powerhouse of a woman making an impact on the planet, and we are fortunate enough to be connected to her through my good friend Michelle Sedas (@MichelleSedas).
Lisa's twitter bio reads:
Best Selling Author of Dream Big, and 5 other books. Founder Femail Creations. Passionate about helping others find, ...
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Day 6 of the #12DaysOfGiving challenge features Mark Horvath.
According to his Twitter bio, Mark (aka @HardlyNormal) is: "Just a hardly normal guy trying to navigate through an abnormal world by helping others. Founder @invisiblepeople & @wearevisible"
I had the privilege of meeting Mark in person for dinner this summer while we were both visiting Winnipeg, Manitoba (where I grew up and my family still lives). I will say that Mark is ...
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Hey! Welcome to Day 5 of the #12DaysOfGiving Challenge!
This project has been a powerful testament to the power of community. What started as a simple idea and conversation between two people has evolved into a viral movement involving 1000's of people. Thank YOU for being a part of it.
I believe that we can help each ...
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Day 4 of the #12DaysOfGiving challenge features a personal favorite of mine: Sean Gardner, aka @2MorrowKnight.
Sean is the prolific social media blogger on Huffington Post, well known for his #TwitterPowerhouses series. I met Sean years ago on Twitter and have had enough phone conversations with him to know he is one of the enthusiastic people on the planet and probably doesn't ever sleep. If there was someone ...
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Day 3 of the #12DaysOfGiving challenge features Twitter hero a Huffington Post blogger, Ann Tran.
I've known Ann for about as long as I've been on Twitter and we were featured in the Huffington Post article 16 People on Twitter Who Inspire the World.
According to her Twitter Bio, @AnnTran_ is: "Happily Married. Spiritual Seeker. Enjoys Travel, Beaches, Wine, Hiking and Photographing Nature."
She is also extremely motivated and passionate ...
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Who better to lead out our first 1 of #12DaysofGiving than social good superstar Claire Diaz-Ortiz.
@ClaireD - has been leading social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter since 2009. She is the author of Twitter for Good: Change the World, One Tweet at a Time, and is a frequent international speaker on how to use social media for good. Claire holds an MBA from Oxford University, ...
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What an awesome day...
I'm always ranting about the amazing power that social media has to bring people together for a good cause (the Bad Hair fundraising project for autism this past week has been a great example of that), but my favorite stories to tell are the ones where cool stuff seems to happen totally at random. (Take Social Media Serendipity part 1, 2 or 3 for ...
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I get it.
You've been watching me encourage you to donate funds in this awesome fundraiser for 5 days now. You're probably wondering if it's ever going to stop. You might be getting bored of me asking, again and again, to donate to these wonderful kids, diagnosed with autism, that need your support. (All of our support)
I realize that, and I want to keep things exciting and amazing ...
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Social media is a powerful tool for creating new relationships. Every day we make connections through friends, and friends of friends, as we go about our social media journey.
The purpose of the Social Media Adventure was to demonstrate this potential with live case-studies by journeying across the country to meet in-person those friendships that were previously only online. Social Media has helped me create these relationships with ...
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Twitter superstar Diana Adams (aka @adamsconsulting) recently decided to use her leverage as a feature writer at the BitRebels.com blog to really shake up the lives of 30 single men, myself included, when she wrote Twitter’s 30 Most Eligible Bachelors.
In her words:
According to Chadwick Martin Bailey, a market research firm out of Boston, over 20% of couples meet online these days. That is ...
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The focus on the Social Media Adventure is to demonstrate the power of Social Media to bring people together to form authentic in-person relationships. While the majority of the posts on here are experiences from my own travels, this one was WAY too cool to pass up.
Amy Donohue (@TheFabulousOne ) is an "unfiltered & vocal woman" (Her words, I wanted to use "loud mouth") and often speaks ...
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It started with a random tweet. It ended with a ride around Winnipeg in a Tesla Roadster and a new friendship.
I saw @KeithBilous tweet about how much he loved giving people rides in his recent "birthday gift to himself": A new Tesla Roadster.
I responded and said I wanted a ride, too. :)
Seeing that my Twitter profile says I'm in Phoenix, he joked ...
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I was reflecting on how when I first launched the Social Media Adventure over 2 years ago, I wasn't really doing anything new... to me at least.
The concept of traveling around the world to meet people for the purpose of forming & strengthening relationships was something that I, as well as many others, I'm sure, have been doing even before the advent of Facebook & Twitter.
Better Than ...
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When I started the Social Media Adventure way back in the early days, I threw a few shirts & shorts into the trunk of my car and hit the highway to meet my online friends in person. I wanted to put a practical application to the notion that the web is connecting us and bringing us together.
Some things have changed since I originally departed, but the wardrobe ...
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