Only 24 hours to go in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008 and I am now forced to bring in the big guns.
That would be the angrily arched eyebrows of Digital Daily’s John “Patches” Paczkowski, along some of the AllThingsD.com staff, begging mightily for your donations.
Uh-oh!
Did I say that there was no limit to my pandering in order to raise the most money of all in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008!
I did, indeed!
Thus, this week, the Swisher boys make their annual appearance to deliver a pitch about why you should give early and often to fund technology projects for high school students.
Well, more a threat than the soft sell actually, since they just saw the new Disney film, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and are clearly hopped up on tiny dog power.
It’s been just a week, and BoomTown is rocking out in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008, with almost $4,000 raised!
It started a week ago, with us featuring a video from my hell-froze-over dinner with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who ably endured a meal with me in support of the many school children who benefit from the unique charity.
Now, I manage to get Yang in a dress and dancing in “High School Musical” to raise even more money–yipes!–but it’s for the kids!
If it’s Oct. 1, it must be time for the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008!
DonorsChoose.org funds classroom projects in high-need public schools, using the Web to match teacher project requests with donors.
Last year, BoomTown did pretty well, raising $12,199 from 52 donors, impacting 1,940 students and almost scoring the grand prize of a lunch with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang.
Well, I finally managed to get a dinner with him, as you can see in the video after the jump.
But now I face a more daunting task–besting the naked Scoble!
Over the next week, I will be posting the most popular videos on BoomTown from 2007.
Here’s one of the two videos I did in which I egregiously used my two young sons to try to 1) raise money for underprivileged kids via DonorsChoose.org and 2) get a lunch date with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who [...]
Big prolonged sigh.
We tried but failed to capture the coveted lunch with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, which was part of the October Tech Blogger Challenge for DonorsChoose.org.
Major lunchroom snub!
Can you believe it? DAY 99!
Yes, this is the day before the last full day of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s 100-day No-Sacred-Cows Vision Quest, which BoomTown has been keeping relentless track of, ever since he told investors in the summer that he was undertaking a top-to-bottom look at his troubled company and that all holy bovines had better watch out.
So far though, in terms of truly dramatic change, it’s Cows: 99, Yang: 0.
Did I wangle a seat right next to soon-to-be Dow Jones owner Rupert Murdoch last night at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner?
Of course I did, continuing in the shameless BoomTown tradition of trying to get gratis meals with moguls (like our ongoing efforts to raise money for DonorsChoose.org and get a free lunch with Yahoo [...]
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang emerged from his hibernation den over at Yahoo yesterday and didn’t see his shadow.
So do better-than-expected revenues mean spring is on the way for the struggling Web giant? We’ll see, but it means we might see a lot more of the shy-of-late Yang, who accepted a big keynote slot at the [...]
OK, we’re going to cut to the chase.
Give here to DonorsChoose.org.
We’re now at $12,056 with 44 donors and solidly in the No. 2 slot, with VC Fred Wilson still king of our little tech charity mountain.
Let’s knock him off!
So go now and click on through to our AllThingsD page on DonorsChoose.org here or use the [...]
Yesterday, we conscripted blogger Arianna Huffington to plead for donations for DonorsChoose.org.
We’re now at $10,228 with 38 donors and solidly in the No. 2 slot, with VC Fred Wilson holding onto the top rung with a freakish Kung-Fu grip.
Thus, we must double our efforts! So go now and click on through to our AllThingsD page [...]
Yesterday, we slapped around VC Fred Wilson in our ongoing efforts to overtake him in our increasingly annoying journey to extract donors and dollars from geeks for a charity called DonorsChoose.org.
It’s working! We’re now hovering near $10,000 with 35 donors and solidly in the No. 2 slot, although Wilson does march on like Sherman to [...]
Yesterday, I used my two adorable children starring in a video in what is clearly a bald-faced attempt to wrench donors and dollars from the dear readers of BoomTown for a charity called DonorsChoose.org.
How easily you are moved, as it turns out, and good thing!
Yesterday, the Swisher boys’ charm managed to more than double the [...]
Is there no end to my groveling?
Apparently not, if it has the effect yesterday’s round of begging had by more than doubling our donor numbers and adding more than $1,500 to the AllThingsD kitty in only one day, after this post in which I egregiously use the musical stylings of Barbra Streisand to plague Yahoo [...]
Today, we post below our most pathetic video ever in our attempt to garner donations for DonorsChoose.org, using (and abusing) our favorite icon, Miss Barbra Streisand.
Last week, I wrote about October Tech Blogger Challenge on the the charity site called DonorsChoose.org, which funds classroom projects in high-need public schools, using the Web to match teacher [...]
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