On behalf of the International Medical Corps and Abraham Harrison, thank you so much for all of your support over the last four weeks to get the vote out to help get the International Medical Corps into the top-five of the Members Project and then for securing the $100,000 from American Express, to be used to feed hungry children worldwide. Here’s a thank you video blog entry from Paige Strackman, who was the PaigeS who submitted IMC in the first place under the title, Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children.
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Thank You International Medical Corps Bloggers!
The International Medical Corps and the Abraham Harrison team have been working on winning $1.5 Million dollars through American Express’ Members Project. IMC needs to be in the top 5 in order to win. Please check out the Member Project page, Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children, and then please vote. I would like to personally thank each and every one of you who have blogged about the issue and about the contest — see below:
Jonathan Trenn on the Social Media Echo Chamber on ZDNet
Congrats to Jonathan Trenn, featured blogger here and Director of the Washington Office of Abraham Harrison, on his guest editorial over on ZDNet, Echo chamber: Social media strategists are talking to themselves
Non-news: McCain may have a "bury brigade" on Digg.
In a display of how overly focused some of us are on certain aspects of social media, there’s now a story out there coming from a LA Times blog: Digg bury brigade: 28 negative McCain stories buried in the past 30 days.
Several had received “more than 700 Diggs” and all had received at least 180 Diggs.
700? 185? Please. Maybe on Digg that’s something, but in the world of politics, 700 votes are probably less than the average precinct. That’s less than two people per Congressional district.
Jed Lewison of The Jed Report thinks it’s organized. It probably is. But so is Open Left’s effort to Googlebomb John McCain. The horrors!!
Such is the nature of politics and it’s intersection with the Internet. This is 2008.
But back to the amount of Diggs. Those numbers are so small in the overall scope of things that I’m beginning to think that there’s about maybe 10,000 insiders or so who will follow stuff like this religiously, forgetting that this presidential election may witness 120,000,000 voters casting their ballots on Election Day.
700? Bah.
Can a "Life Changing Box" change your life?
Can a “Life Changing Box” change your life? In this case it can! I am currently working on a project for an unnamed client (soon to be revealed) called “Life Changing Box.”
Life Changing Box is a very interesting concept – there are two parts – the teaser site and the Facebook game/application.
The teaser site, http://www.lifechangingbox.com/ is set up to allow people to guess what is inside the box. My daughter is very impressed with the box and actually just came and asked me if we can play guess what’s in the box. If you guess correctly (and there are lots of keywords which will work), the box does a cool animation. Try TV, Solar, Baseball, Japan, air. The object of the teaser site is to intrigue you to figure out who the client is and what the prizes are for the Facebook game.
The Facebook portion of this campaign is believed to be a first of it’s kind game/application for Facebook with real prizes. So the basics of the game are you install the LCB application onto your FB profile.
Then everyday (it only lasts a month) you click the “touch to play” on your profile then it will take you to a page where 10 random people are “holding” a box. These people have already touched a box and it’s jumped to them. You get 24 touches in a day to touch the boxes that people are currently holding. The boxes only stay on a person for a random amount of time (30 minutes to hours) and you want the box to jump to you, because when it opens you win whatever prize is inside. It’s kind of like hot potato or musical chairs except you want the potato or music to stop on you. The boxes have some amazing prizes in them and your chances of winning are pretty darn good. The other cool thing is whoever you invite to play- if it opens for them – then you win the prize and they win the prize. So you really want to invite as many friends to play as you can to increase your chances of winning.
I wish I was eligible for some of these prizes :). I am allowed to play, however, if I or anyone working on the campaign wins the prize, money of the prize value will be donated to charity.