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ThinkSocial Awards: Amanda Rose "Orchestrating concurrent charity events worldwide”

By Kim Chou on October 22, 2009 | No Comments

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Name: Amanda Rose

Nominated Category: Individual

URL: http://www.twestival.com

Area: Organizing, Fundraising

About:

Twestival – concurrent series of offline events for charity, organized by volunteers in cities around the world via Twitter – is the brainchild of Amanda Rose, Canadian social entrepreneur and social media consultant.

Description:

Amanda is the creator of both Twestival Global and Local. The first official Twestival Global, which took place February of this year with 200-plus cities participating, raised $250,000 for Charity: water. Twestival Local translates the same approach to single cities, raising money for local causes and specific fundraising targets.

“This type of global, grassroots events series could never have happened even two years ago,” Rose said in a Blog Herald interview after the first Twestival Global. “The immediacy of communication and the ability to tie communities together via Twitter has been crucial.”

Technology’s one thing, but being able to harness it is another. Twestival Global and Twestival Local grew out of an idea of Rose and her friends’ last fall. Connecting with 250 people over Twitter in the course of two weeks, they then all met in Trafalgar Square to gather food and money donations for the homeless.

When not organizing multi-city fundraising events, Rose works in consulting and strategic advising, specializing in—of course—social media and communications for her clients. Among other things, she works with start-up Bright One, a company that matches non-profit organizations who can’t afford PR consulting with PR students, on its branding and direction.

The Basics:

WHO: Amanda Rose, social media entrepreneur

WHAT: Organizer behind Twestival Global and Twestival Local

WHERE: Born in Canada, based in UK, fundraising all over the world

HOW to get involved: Check out Twestival.com to see events near you. The next Twestival Global is February 2010.

What other people are saying:

Blog Herald

New York Times BITS blog

Social Brite

Telegraph (UK)

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