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TweetsGiving 2009: What Nonprofit Tech Are You Thankful For?
Last year, Elliot penned a post about TweetsGiving. What, pray tell is that, you might be asking? Here's a smidge from his post:
If you haven't heard about it yet, be sure to check out TweetsGiving, a project of the nonprofit Epic Change. Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year.
This year, they're also enabling people to participate by tagging blog posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and blip.fm recordings. So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000. In the spirit of a season of thankfulness, feel free to Tweet, blog, Facebook, or otherwise share the things that you're grateful to have encountered in your life. In addition to the online thank-fest, local parties have sprung up all over, with happy hours to mix and mingle with others over snacks and cocktails while contributing a few bucks to Epic Change's work.
It's an interesting model for inspiring your supporters to give thanks AND give money to your cause, and all using new social media tools.
With giving thanks in mind, Megan started a thread in our forums where people are expressing their gratitude for their favorite free or open-source tech tools. What tools do you love? This blog is published on the open-source Drupal platform, for which I'm grateful. I'm also thankful for Joomla, which was the content management system we used to build a shiny new website at my previous organization. Lastly, when it comes to nonprofit technology, I'm actually really thankful for TechSoup. And even if you think that sounds self-serving, I was grateful for all the great support this community offered to me, as an accidental techie at a small nonprofit, when I first discovered it nearly eight years ago. I'm thankful that I get to contribute to that community now as a staff person.
What nonprofit tech stuff are you thankful for?
