May 2013
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Fun for Everyone
3 Ways to Turn Strangers into Friends at Your Twestival
by Jackie Miao, Malaysia (@fooz, Lifebod.com), Twestival Orientation Team
Organizing a grassroots event means that the people who arrive on the big day will likely be strangers from all over your city, and it could be quite a mixed bag of personalities You should be ready to host everyone from the shy to the flamboyant, from networking...
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A Good Day to Twestival
How to choose the right date to host your Twestival
By Christina Lor, Orientation Team Global Lead
Twestival has an important twist for 2013. Instead of every local Twestival being held on the same day everywhere around the world, this year each city or region gets to pick its own date that’s right for them.
But how do you select a good date? What makes a good day to hold a...
April 2013
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The first approved Twestival logos!
Great work! Visit their local blogs at doha.twestival.com and farnham.twestival.com.
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5 Tips for Planning a Successful Twestival
By Michelle Greer
With an 11-piece band, a photo booth, amazing giveaways like SxSW tickets and guitar lessons, and over 400 people in attendance, Austin’s first Twestival in 2009 was more successful than we’d ever hoped.
Are you planning your own Twestival? Here are some tips based on what we learned. [[MORE]]
1. Pick the venue first — Your ideas will be restricted by your...
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The story of our new brand
A tale of global generosity and serendipity
To help launch our new approach for 2013, we also wanted a whole new look. Last November, we announced a logo contest on crowdSPRING, and donated $500 to a charity of the winner’s choice.
Fittingly, Twestival’s new logo is the creation of a fortuitous and generous online collaboration between two previously unassociated web designers living in...
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Twestival returns!
What’s new and exciting for 2013
by Amanda Rose, Founder of Twestival
Do you remember what you were doing on February 12, 2009? I certainly remember where I was — sitting dumbfounded in my London flat with my laptop open to Twitter, watching #Twestival trend worldwide.
Everything had been set in motion just a few weeks earlier, when I began tweeting about an idea for communities in...
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See the 50 wells Twestival helped drill
Twestival events in 202 cities around the world joined forces on February 12, 2009 to support charity: water’s mission of bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
All of the $264,000 raised was used to drill 50 wells in Ethiopia, Uganda and Cambodia.
Want to keep helping? Here is a simple way to make a difference: Pledge your birthday here!
Learn more...
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Update from Concern Worldwide: How Twestival...
Lessons in educating the world’s poorest children
Photo: Esther Havens
On March 25, 2010, organizers in 175 cities across the globe held Twestivals in support of Concern Worldwide, raising an astonishing $405,538. Those funds directly improved the education of about 53,000 children — and another 120,000 indirectly — in Burundi, Haiti, Liberia, Malawi and Mozambique. Read the full story of...
March 2013
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After the Revolution: How the Arab Spring gave...
» Twestival Tunis organizers Hassen Saies, Mongi Bhouri, Amina Abdellatif, Ali Boulila and Karim Kik
Karim El Kik still remembers the moment he first learned of Twestival. It was early December 2010, and he was on a bus outside of Tunis, where he lives with his wife, Amina Abdellatif, and works as a communications director. He checked Twitter on his iPad, and within the stream was a...
