How to Raise money or awareness for your Cause or Charity?

How to Raise money or awareness for your Cause or Charity?

The Power of Twitter, and how it may work for you, your business or better yet Your Cause

first a couple of definitions to make this more understandable

Following is someone you follow and recieve tweets from

Follower is someone who is following you and receiving your tweets.

Friend is when you follow someone who is also following you

Tweet is a 160 character limit message you sent on Twitter to your Followers

ReTweet or RT is you sending to your Followers a message you received from someone you are following, giving full credit to who sent it to you.

As a Follower of @Alyssa_Milano I received a cry for help tweet she received from @AlexsLemonade. If you are not familiar with this amazingly touching story of this little girl you can go to her blog: http://lemonadeblog.com I highly recommend you share it with all you know. The tweet was about her charity who partnered up with Volvo for $1 for every follower on Twitter gained in one day.

I'm following! Help in the fight against Childhood Cancer simply by following @AlexsLemonade http://bit.ly/bdmCz

Obviously something like this spreads like wildfire and is not imposing on the Celebrity or Followers as it is just a simple Retweet and than go click on Follow @AlexsLemonade Well I guess the limit was $25,000 in one day, and they go that and more, so they got the big Check thanks to the generosity of the twitterverse

On another front as a Follower of @Alyssa_Milano I also received a cry for help tweet she was passing along from @Chicajones

Anyone in Grant County, Kentucky? RT @Chicajones: Shelter ordered to euthanize #dogs due to overcrowding: http://bit.ly/bORxO

As an Avid animal lover, with approxiamately 2 dozen animals of her own, she ReTweeted the plea from her TweetDeck application. And although, she warns everyone that she tweets alot, and she does (1000's in only a few months), I have them go to my phone as an SMS in real time. So I happen to be at my computer and open up my TweetDeck application, find her tweet, and ReTweet it myself, which I am sure many of her 160,000+ followers did as well.

And what is the result of this splattering of Tweets going out over the Twitterverse? A very grateful person who tracked down those who retweeted the original message. I would be @LoveTheGulfRE .

@LisaDee123 @LoveTheGulfRE @CDBest @MicheBella @ro23ro Thank you for RT

One of many I am sure as the next tweet I see from @Chicajones says:

@trueterri @Nattjenta @debdobson @MathildaB @willysilver POWER OF TWITTER! Shelter has adopted out 30 in 4hrs. http://bit.ly/bORxO #spca