Using Social Media for Good Causes
October 3, 2008
We will also be sharing the great work our Austin chapter has done so far around supporting the local blood centers and food banks.
Social Media for Social Good 08.28.08
August 27, 2008
Austin Social Media Club is once again partnering with 501 Tech Club of Austin to enlist Twitter users in a community project. This time the beneficiary is the Capital Area Food Bank and the event is a HAM-up (September is Hunger Action Month). Tyson Foods issued a challenge on their Hunger Relief blog, offering to donate 100 pounds of protein for every comment posted, up to a full 35,000-pound truck load. Organizers were floored when the truck was filled in just six hours; comments topped out at over 600.
Beth Kanter challenged the 250 attendees at Gnomedex to raise $2,500 before the end of the two-day conference in order to send Cambodian student Leng Sopharath to college for her junior year. With Twitter working as the back channel, word of the fund-raising project spread far beyond the conference center in Seattle. At the 90-minute mark the fund had surpassed the goal; the final total raised was $3,774. The additional money will no doubt be put to good use in another one of Beth’s projects for Cambodian children.
Sphere: Related ContentA New Kind of Tweetup: Blood Drive
July 2, 2008
We love hearing about the various ways folks are using Social Media tools, and this special ‘Tweetup’ happening tomorrow (Thursday, July 3rd) is one we just had to share.
The Austin (Texas) Tweetup Blood Drive.
This event is the brainchild of Michelle Greer and David Neff, who are using Twitter, various blogs and other media outlets to bring attention to the blood shortages at their local blood bank and getting the local community to come together for social good.
Here’s how you can help:
- Register or log into the Blood Center of Central Texas’s website.
- Choose the location at 4300 North Lamar.
- Be sure to pick a time slot from 10 am-4 pm on Thursday, July 3rd.
- Show up at the appropriate time. Give a shoutout to David J. Neff.
- Give blood. Eat a piece of the sammichometer. Give thanks that you are healthy and can offer health to someone else who needs it.
Sponsored by groups such as Austin Social Media Club, the 501Tech Club, and Austin Jelly - it is an event we encourage locals in Austin to get behind and other cities to replicate. Blog, Tweet, take photos, shoot video. Get the word out to help those in need.
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