My fourth personal fundraising campaign started off with a modest goal - $1,000 to support Leng Sopharath,
an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. The money goes to the Sharing Foundation
which
manages the program. This campaign took 24 hours, with 50% of the goal coming in during the last two hours and we went over goal! Chris Brogan blogged it and tweeted it ... talk about a social media metric for influence.
Since we went over goal, and I have trouble saying now, I kept the campaign going because Champhearom's sponsor was not able to do it this year and I was hoping we could send him to college too. A few of my donors started to ask their friends via their blogs. I posted something on Facebook. But it wasn't until I started to tweet that we reached the goal!
When I launched the campaign, I thought it would take longer. So, I told my network that I would write a personal blog post thank you and put the first responders in my top friends on Facebook. I will personally acknowledge every one of you with a personal thank you blog post over the next couple of weeks and link it back here. I'm also doing an analysis of our social connection and present some of those numbers shortly as well as anecdotal reflections.
In the meantime, Nick Booth had a brilliant idea. He suggested that you each say congratulations to each other on your blogs!
Shirley Williams
Michael David Pick
Preetam Rai
Wiebke Herding
Peter Cranstone
Polly Thompson
Nicholas Booth
Fernanda Ibarra
Britt Bravo
Kelley-sue LeBlanc
Laura Whitehead
Allyson Lazar
CindyAE
Andre Carothers
John Powers
Anal Bhattacharya
Steve Bridger
Lloyd Davis
Donna Callejon
Chris Brogan
Anonymous
Joyce Bettencourt
Erin Vest
Philip C Campbell
Jane E Quigley
Steve Spalding
Amanda Mooney
Ann Miller
Donna Papacosta
Christopher Lester
Zena Weist
Connie Reece
Mary Reagan
michael dunn
Anne Boccio
S Michelle Wolverton
Israel Rosencrantz
Clint Smith
Stephen Keaveny
Scott Schablow
Justin Kownacki
Neha Yellurkar
Amie Gillingham
David Beaudouin
Edwin S Coyle III
Randy Stewart
Michelle Martin
Liz Perry
Haystack in A Needle
Ian Wilker
Jay Dedman
Amy Jussel
Roger Carr
Jesse Wiley
Ed Schipul
Nedra Weinreich
sam Mayfield
Ayse Erginer
Erin Denny
Somongkol Teng
Peter Gulka
Liz Henry
John Federico
Alex de Carvalho
Steve Dembo
Steve Garfield
Susanne Nyrop
Citizen Agency
Sam Harrelson
Michaela Hackner
Priscilla Brice-Weller
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