Hi All,

The article that David Rosen posted was about Twitter working with a
wine company to promote literacy. For each bottle the consumer buys

$5 will go to a specific literacy organization.  PR stunt or not, that's
$5 a bottle helping to provide books and services to people who need
them.  This is in line with 

Twitter's mission: providing access to information and highlighting the
power of open communication to bring about positive change.

 

Best,

Nell

 

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From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:technology-bounces at nifl.gov]
On Behalf Of Steve Kaufmann
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:06 AM
To: The Technology and Distance Learning Discussion List
Subject: [Technology 2401] Re: Wine, Twitter and literacy

 

I would imagine that wine drinkers are, on average, more literate than
beer drinkers or tee-totalers. Other than that I see no relationship
between wine and literacy. This just looks like a PR stunt to me,

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, David Rosen <DJRosen at theworld.com>
wrote:

Technology Colleagues,

The Twitter co-founders apparently care about world literacy and, if
you read to the last line of this article, have a sense of humor the
relationship of Twitter to literacy. : - )
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10375774-2.html

David J. Rosen
DJRosen at theworld.com




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