Justin Kownacki of Something To Be Desired Helps Make Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign Goal!!! Thank you!

Justin Kownack of Something To Be Desired brings the Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign to goal!  A special thanks!

Here's how and why from Justin:

When Michael Bailey decided to try a group donation experiment to buy me an air conditioner (thanks again, Mike, Jim, Amy and everyone else who contributed), he based that idea off a similar concept: Beth Kanter's Cambodia Blogging Summit, in which she was seeking $4,000 from her readers to help fund an event that will give Cambodian students, workers and media sources the training and encouragement necessary to join the global social media movement.

This morning, I noticed via Twitter that Beth needed another $57 to meet her $4,000 goal. So I chipped in $65 (unsure if PayPal would keep some or not -- it didn't), putting her over the top. Now the event can move forward as planned, and Michael Bailey and Beth Kanter can BOTH sleep easy, knowing that the power of interpersonal fundraising is alive and well in the social media community.

I know $65 isn't the same as a new air conditioner, but I think it might have an even bigger impact in the long run, don't you?

Next?

The SDBD series is one of the longest-running web series, online since 2003. It follows the lives, loves and very bad ideas of a group of struggling artists in Pittsburgh.  (The blog is here)

The amount donated put us over goal by $8 and my son, Harry, contributed an additional $7 from his piggy bank (he doesn't have a credit card)  So that gave me enough extra to purchase one of their t-shirts for the suitcase.

Thank you Justin Kownacki!

Comments

[Justin Kownacki]

Glad we could help! I think our t-shirt design is quite ironic in this context: Whatever we want seems much easier to achieve when everyone works together, no?

Best wishes!