Give $ to Public Schools Without Spending a Penny via Twitter

Published March 20, 2009 @ 01:00PM PT

I hope EdWize will forgive me for nicking its plug for this innovative bit of education charity. Please click through to donate $3 dollars to public schools - without spending a penny. It's a good incentive to enter Twitter-land for those of you not yet familiar with this amazingly fun and socio-educationally powerful tool. (And feel free to follow me too.)

I'm a big supporter of Donors Choose, a featured non-profit on this blog. I hope you'll help them.

Tim Ferriss, San Francisco-based productivity guru and bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, is attracting new Twitter followers with this “ethical bribe”:

For every new Twitter follower in the next two weeks, I will donate $1 to DonorsChoose.org, and an anonymous supporter will match $2, for a total of $3 to U.S. public school classrooms per follower. For now, the matching limit is tentatively capped at 50,000 new followers, though I’m open to increasing it later. 50,000 new followers would mean $150,000 to U.S. public school education, and I hope to double or triple this total with a few twists.

For more information, go to Ferriss’s blog. Click here for his Twitter page.

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I suppose I should have DM'ed you as soon as I initiated this action, huh? That way it could have been featured earlier. Sorry about that; I guess I just assumed you'd see it once initiated... sadly, I believe this action ends today... it's been two weeks since Mr. Ferriss started, so I think that's all, folks.

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Clay is an American high school Humanities teacher, technology coach, and Apple Distinguished Educator who has taught for the last eight years in Asian international schools. According to law, he's married to his wife. According to his wife, he's married to his Mac.