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Kake aka PoeticErotica
If we had streaming music I'd offer to dj and take a buck for every song, lol. Um, let me brainstorm, ask some other people I know, etc. I think it would be very cool to try to do something primarily, if not entirely, online. There are events in
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If we had streaming music I'd offer to dj and take a buck for every song, lol. Um, let me brainstorm, ask some other people I know, etc. I think it would be very cool to try to do something primarily, if not entirely, online. There are events in virtual worlds that have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in a matter of weeks, so if they can do it all online, I reckon we can too. Or, we could just focus on running an awareness-raising campaign of some sort. Sort of like something like TWLOHA Day, or something like that - which is largely dependent on internet participation via flickr, etc. I actually run one of the larger hybrid virtual/real life flickr groups for that event/organization (though we're not officially affiliated with them - their whole concept is to promote grassroots stuff, etc, so it's all good, blah blah blah). [
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Actually, I found out that TWLOHA originally was conceived by supporters of the cause. That's the year my friend Bama & I started our support of the organization. Most local groups are doing it Nov. 13 this year, which I think was the same day as in '09. Here's the
official TWLOHA page, so you'll know wth I'm talking about when you read this, and here is the [TWLOHA Wiki], which is fascinating imho, esp its coverage of their efforts to reach people via web tools, and here is the more info on
TWLOHA Day. Looks like my friend and I didn't get involved until the 3rd TWLOHA Day. Here is a link to
the first page of the Second Life TWLOHA flickr pool that my friend and I created and here's a a link to
the last (oldest) page of the pool, notice the difference? It becomes clearer and clearer if you browser through the pool from the last page to the first. That's what I find sooo amazing - that something we created based on stuff we did in a virtual environment eventually attracted so many real life submissions to the pool that you have to go back many, many, many pages to find any pictures from the virtual environment. I'm proud we were able to so extensively spread TWLOHA's msg. That's just one example of the success of online charitable works - ofc, this raised no funds, but it sure as hell raised a TON of awareness, both within the virtual community and the real world. Anyway, if you ever want to kick some ideas around, hit me up via EF email, or any other of the communication methods I have listed on my EF profile.
