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I’m really excited about this and I think it’s going to be REALLY cool!\u00a0<\/p>\nI’m really excited about this and I think it’s going to be REALLY cool!\u00a0<\/p>\n
July 30th will be the first quarterly National Bloggers Blood Drive<\/a>, this is a new project we’re organizing at The Serenity Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n As I mentioned in my previous post<\/a>, I’ve been working on organizing a new twist on blood drives and blogger\/twitter meetups.\u00a0 It turns out that someone else recently did something similar in Austin, TX.\u00a0 Michelle Greer just hosted a blood drive Tweetup<\/a> in honor of her sister who has ALL (the same Leukemia that Serenity has).\u00a0 They had a great response and turnout and I hope that we will as well!\u00a0<\/p>\n The big idea here is to make this a national, or even global, effort.\u00a0 Bloggers around the world unite to save lives!\u00a0 We’ve already had people volunteer to host local blood drives in 2 other locations: KirstenP wants to host one in Seattle and Michele is working to put one together in Chandler, AZ!\u00a0 If you’re in either of those locations and want to help out, I’ll connect you with Kirsten and Michele.\u00a0 If you would like to put one together in your location, let me know and we’ll help you with organization as much as we can.\u00a0<\/p>\n The goal is to use social networking, web 2.0 and all these new shiny things to really make a difference!\u00a0 We’ll post stats about how much blood we collectively donated in one afternoon – and how many lives that blood will be able to save.\u00a0 During the blood drive people will hopefully be blogging and tweeting the experience, sharing photos of the different locations, registering with Takes All Types,<\/a>\u00a0etc.\u00a0 We should be able to make donating blood into a fun, cool, social experience.<\/p>\n Here’s the key to making this all work – every tweet, blog post, digg entry, stumble review, etc needs to be tagged with a common id.\u00a0 I’ll be setting up aggregators that will scour the social web looking for entries that are tagged exactly like this: #tsfblood\u00a0<\/p>\n TSF is for The Serenity Foundation which is the new legacy project for Serenity.\u00a0 The aggregators will be set up on the Serenity foundation’s website which is still being built but is at: http:\/\/www.TheSerenityFoundation.org<\/a> once the site is finished all the updates and info about the blood drive and other projects will come from there.\u00a0<\/p>\n So that’s all the background info, here’s the info about the Utah drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0July 30th, 2008 from 3pm to 8pm MST at Twelve Horses<\/a>, 13961 Minuteman Dr. Suite 125.\u00a0 We’re very grateful to 12 Horses for allowing us to use their offices and their wifi.<\/p>\n ARUP has some pretty cool stuff going on!\u00a0 Everyone who donates blood at the Utah location (twelve horses) will be entered into two raffles – one is a raffle to win a car (2 year lease free) from Ken Garff Mitsubishi<\/a>, this raffle goes on all summer and the winner will be drawn after September 12th.\u00a0 The other raffle is for a $50 gas card at Maverick and will be just for our event – one of the people who donate with us will win the card!\u00a0 In addition to that we’ll be serving food and watching movies during the event.\u00a0 If you or your company are interested in sponsoring food purchases, please let me know and we’ll make sure you get plenty of coverage at the drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n And here’s the call to action:<\/strong><\/p>\n Help spread the word!\u00a0 Please Digg, Stumble,\u00a0ReTweet\u00a0and Reddit this post, invite all your friends to the Facebook event page, blog about it, post the plug-in or banner ad where-ever you can, install the soon to come facebook app or just mark your calendar and be a participant!\u00a0 We should be able to get a great turnout and make a huge dent in the current blood shortage <\/a>– and make a big difference in a lot of people’s lives!<\/p>\n Click here for all the info including the WordPress Plugin and banner ads <\/a>for the event.<\/p>\n #TSFBlood<\/p>\n Share This (AJAX Form)<\/a> I’m really excited about this and I think it’s going to be REALLY cool!\u00a0
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