Trick or Tweet? Some Halloween Social Media Fun for A Good Cause

I was taking a trip down memory lane through my flickr stream and a search on the word "Halloween" and realized that 30 years ago today I had my first date with my husband! 

I also found this photo from 1964.  When I was kid, our folks let us collect candy, but I also remember those orange boxes and collecting money for Unicef.

So, here's the social media version of collecting money for charity on Halloween from FutureNow.

There are 2 goals for Trick or Tweet:

1. Connect lots of interesting people with other interesting people they didn’t know before.

2. Do some good with our Tricks (there is enough tricky things going on in our worlds).

Here are the rules:

1. Send a Tweet to someone and ask Trick or Tweet.

2. If they say Tweet then you must provide them with a couple of interesting people they should follow (these people should have less than 1000 followers currently). At the end of your tweet add #TrickorTweet. If you don’t provide them with someone new, then you owe a Trick.

3. If they say Trick then send them a link to this page { http://tinyurl.com/trick-o-tweet } where they will have to contribute using the Chipin widget below to charity. The maximum we ask anyone to donate is $20 for the day. Every cent we collect will be sent to charity. We’ll split the proceeds among three charities; Reading is Fundamental, The Center for Autism and the charity that is mentioned the most in the comments below from your suggestions. UPDATE: Chris and I will give our donations to our respective preferred charities, the money collected will go to the top 3 companies voted for in the comments below.

Let’s have fun, connect people and do good. Have a happy and safe Halloween.

And, hope you'll consider mentioning my favorite charity in the comments - The Sharing Foundation - helps Cambodian children.  Go leave a comment now!

And here's another social media halloween campaign to help kids with Cancer.

Comments

[Robin]

There are so many great charities!

I'm putting my vote in for the American Red Cross. Let's build up the Disaster Relief Fund to be prepared for the next big hurricane, flood, wildfire, etc.