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The team is back from Twestival Singapore; a local Twitter festival that just ended a few hours ago at TAB. Twestival is an offline event held in more than 175 cities, aimed at raising funds for charity while harnessing the power of social media. Not only did people meet up to have fun, they also remembered to give. This year, Twestival Singapore had chosen to raise funds for the local non-profit organisation Children-At-Risk Empowerment Association (CARE Singapore), to help them in their mission of changing lives of youths at-risk. Our local talent, Jack and ...

We have been writing one post each day for Twestival Singapore since Sunday. The organizing team has put in a lot of effort for tomorrow’s event. So, feel free to drop-by and have some fun with us at TAB tomorrow. For today’s Twestival posting, we want to share something very fundamental about the charity event. That is ‘tweet’, ‘meet’ and ‘give’, the event’s slogan. I caught the Twestival video last year and thought many of us might have missed it. There are so far only about 30,000 views on YouTube. The ...

This Thursday is Twestival night. You saw the ad banners, learned about the prizes, tweeted #twsg11, donated and know where to head for a fun and meaningful Thursday night. All this little things are baby steps toward achieving a common goal: A goal to help CARE Singapore, our beneficiary organization for 2011. Wonder what all these mean to CARE? We were curious too. Through Supriya's help, we managed to learn more from Adelyn Poh who is the Co-founder and Director of Enterprise at Children-At-Risk Empowerment Association (CARE Singapore). In her short interview, ...

Twestival™ (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good.  It is an event which Twitter users (in fact everyone!) work hand-in-hand to do something meaningful. All of the local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all donations go direct to projects. Last year, we raised more than US$ 7,000, of which US$ 4,500 was raised on the night itself, making Singapore amongst the top ten nations in terms of funds raised. This year, for @TwestivalSg 2011, we are supporting Children-at-Risk Empowerment Association (CARE). Established in 1997, CARE Singapore ...