Is your mom following you on Twitter? Well,  Tery Spataro's (@tery) mom certainly is following her.  For Joyce Spataro, what started as an effort to keep track of her daughter's hectic travel schedule evolved into something more. She found a new way to explore her interests and advocate for what she believes to be important.
Watch this Youtube video to see how Joyce makes a passionate shoutout to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mike Dell to develop senior-friendly computers.
 

People come to see my show with Cirque du Soleil, "KOOZA" and they Tweet before,during, at intermission, and afterwards. I am one of the three clowns in the show and we often read what people are Tweeting about the show for a laugh. The show is phenomenal so most comments are positive. We also use audience members in our act and our volunteers sometimes tweet their experience or post pictures on Twitter.

It started out as just some talk on a colleague's blog about wanting to be more fit and being motivated to keep working out. My colleague tried the same trick I had tried a year before: buying the cool Nike+ gear to stay motivated for running. For me it didn't work that well. I needed a challenge. And thus, the idea was born: we would organise a challenge to run 10 kilometer on a certain day.

This story comes recommended to us from two sources: Shel Israel and Sarah Evans @PRsarahevans. 

Stacey Monk started Tweetsgiving to demonstrate the power of Twitter and social web. Within 48 hours, she raised over $10,000 from 336 contributors. The money helped fund a new classroom for a school in Tanzania. 

In this video Shel Israel tells us why Stacey Monk's Tweetsgiving is one of his favourite stories from his new book, Twitterville.