Golden Twits

Your company: Contently Managed

Twitter username: @RobertBurnsNTS

Suggest a category: Fundraising

Why do you deserve an award?: @RobertBurnsNTS was the UK’s first use of Twitter as a charity fundraiser (pre-Twestival). See http://bit.ly/3QlA3G

What were the objectives?: To raise awareness of Burns’ work, to raise funds and awareness for his new museum

What have you achieved?: Funds were raised from across the globe and awareness (and hits to the relevant website) soared over the campaign.

Your company: Dogs Trust

Twitter username: @dogstrust

Why do you deserve an award?: We’re gradually meeting every Dogs Trust objective: rehoming dogs, raising money, raising awareness, offering advice and gaining volunteers.

What were the objectives?: Furthering the wider charity objectives, particularly in terms of awareness-raising, supporter relations and rehoming dogs.

What have you achieved?: Rehoming dogs, community fundraising support, awareness, volunteering, customer services & timely advice giving (e.g. #keeppetscool),

Your company: Trimedia

Twitter username: @JustinMcKeown

Why do you deserve an award?: My tweeting got @Wossy to auction his TV sofa for charidee, intro’d Chris Moyles to Twitter, caused a surge in calls 2 the Speaking Clock.

What were the objectives?: I tweet for fun and for work. Have made connections that have paid dividends in traditional media too.

What have you achieved?: Tweeting has generated TV appearances (Working Lunch), radio exposure (Wake Up To Moyles), boosted Spk Clk calls for Comic Relief (£300k)

Your company: Greener Leith

Twitter username: @greenerleith

Why do you deserve an award?: We tweet a unique human edited blend of comment and stuff from our blog, ning, flickr, fixmystreet.com, our liftshare portal + local news.

What were the objectives?: To showcase the amount of community action that’s happening all the time and inspire local residents to get involved in making Leith greener

What have you achieved?: More action, more collaboration, more people having their say in consultations – a Greener Leith!

Your company: Amnesty International UK

Twitter username: @AmnestyUK

Why do you deserve an award?: Innovative use of Twitter for campaigning & creating change. 1 eg. was asking our followers to target Shell on twitter http://bit.ly/KDP97

What were the objectives?: To engage Shell in a dialogue about their human rights impact in the Niger Delta via a web chat, and get them to address the issues

What have you achieved?: Shell granted our followers a web chat & over 400 took part, asking difficult qs resulting in answers that will allow campaign to progress

Your company: Cybercom

Twitter username: @Cybercom

Why do you deserve an award?: For successfully using social collaboration to create a successful twitter based campaign which made the highest tweet in the world

What were the objectives?: To drive online buzz around the Adventure Alternatives charity and help raise as much money as possible for them

What have you achieved?: An international audience was engaged and ultimately €100,000 was raised for a very worthy charity

Your company: Keep Britain Tidy

Twitter username: @KeepBritainTidy

Why do you deserve an award?: Litter isn’t sexy or techy yet we’ve got people tweeting about our cause everyday!We always tweet back and give advice, info and praise!

What were the objectives?: To directly speak to the public about their experiences of litter & help publicise those fighting litter successfully.Get our message out!

What have you achieved?: Daily interaction with people who care about our cause.Conversations about litter spread like wildfire & more litter fighters=less litter!:)

Your company: The Woodland Trust

Twitter username: @woodlandtrust

Why do you deserve an award?: Because we are opeing the eyes of those who cannot see the wood for the trees

What were the objectives?: To inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees

What have you achieved?: We have a seen a great increase in people seeking information about woods and commenting on their woodland experiences

Your company: Action for Children

Twitter username: @aslongasittakes

Why do you deserve an award?: We just launched a #neglect appeal,had great responses on Twitter so far,raising awareness with supporters,and got celebrities tweeting!

What were the objectives?: To tell tweeters about the #neglect appeal through news stories and engage with @ThisisDavina to tweet about our advert aired on 12 October

What have you achieved?: Over 300 new followers in 4weeks from @ThisisDavina mentioning advert,YouTube views to over 400,news stories tweeted + awareness raised!