From the Chronicle of Philanthropy: Fund Raising at the Speed of Twitter
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Twitter — mini-blogs updated via text message — can raise money fast from the technologically savvy.

Beth Kanter and 250 bloggers, podcasters, and other technology enthusiasts at a Seattle conference raised $2,657 to pay for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia, to go to college this year, using the new technology — and by passing the hat at the session — in just 90 minutes. By the end of the conference, the total had climbed to $3,774…