Wildwood Interactive has donated two single seats to a seminar of the winner’s choice, topics include:
Thanks to CJ Romberger and the rest of the folks at Wildwood Interactive for supporting Austin Twestival and charity: water!
Webmaster World has donated a PubCon South 2009 registration (valued at $599) to the Austin Twestival raffle. PubCon South is a full three day multi-track conference to be held in Austin,Texas on March 11 - 13, 2009. This event occurs right before South by Southwest 2009 so it’s a perfect excuse to come to Austin early if you aren’t already here!
“WebmasterWorld’s PubCon is an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Although our center piece is Search Engine Marketing, Whether your primary role is in web site marketing, corporate IT development, or as a technology business management, you will find something of value at PubCon (aka: Publishers Conference). It is also designed to be fun and entertaining with ample opportunity for quality networking.”
Topic Areas To Be Addressed and Discussed:
* Search Engine Marketing, Optimization, Advertising, and Usage.
* Website Publishing. Technical grit as well as overall management.
* Website, domain, and Ecommerce site management.
Thank you to Brett Tabke, Vanessa Zamora, and Webmaster World for their support!
The sponsorship packet is somewhat complicated as we are auctioning off space at the event. Just know that giving the life giving gift of water to hundreds of people is easy. Whether you are an individual or a company, you can know that 1.) the people at charity:water are like monks in their spending habits and won’t waste it and 2.) you are ensuring that someone out there will not die of a totally preventable disease. In this economy we often look at what we don’t have, but it’s key to stay grateful for everything we are blessed with by giving back to others who are truly in need.
Here’s how to donate:
1.) go to www.charitywater.org/twestival and select “Austin” from the dropdown.
2.) Fill out the info and pay.
3.) If you are a company who has paid over $150, send your png logo and receipt to Brian at brianbuser(at)gmail.com.
Remember, even attending Twestival means you are giving years of clean water to someone who needs it. So if you are short of cash and wanting to have a good time, by all means, come! You will not be disappointed. Here are tickets:
http://www.amiando.com/twestivalaustin.html
Jungle Disk was a brilliant acquisition by the good folks at RackSpace and they are looking to reach out to the local community. We told their Biz Dev team about Twestival and not only are they going to make a donation to charity:water, they are offering free Jungle Disk accounts for everyone present. RAWK! These are worth $20 a piece, so we appreciate their generosity. Jungle Disk allows you to back up your desktop easily online. You’ll never have to risk losing all your precious work, photos, or music and unlike using an external hard drive, you can back up from anywhere.
If you run into the people at RackSpace at Twestival, be sure to tell them thanks! We are lucky to have them in Austin (and yes, they have an Austin office!).
** I apologize that the formatting in this post is confusing. We are restricted to use WordPress MU, which seems to be stripping it out. There is a more user friendly version of the sponsorship information here. If you can’t sponsor, I certainly encourage you to come to Twestival. Buy a ticket on Amiando.”
One in six citizens of the world does not have clean drinking water. The lack of clean drinking water is the source of wars, famine, and disease, and now millions of Twitter users have decided to do something about it.
On February, 12, 2009, over 100 cities around the world are hosting “Twestivals”, which are meetings of Twitter* users to benefit charity:water. We are asking you to take part in this historic event by helping make Austin’s Twestival the most memorable and beneficial. This packet will outline what is occurring at Twestival Austin as well as the benefits of being a sponsor. Mashable is touting this as the world’s biggest Twitter-driven charity drive ever, and we would appreciate if you would take part.
*Note: if you don’t know what Twitter is or does, watch this video.
What is Happening at Austin Twestival?
Raising money for people in need is a wonderful thing and we intend to show the world that Austin knows how to have a good time. We are meeting at Ace’s Lounge on Sixth Street at 8 pm. This venue fits 700 people in it and the manager Jason is doing everything to accommodate a successful event. What does this entail?
The schedule is as follows:
8:00 Meet and mingle
8:50 A word from sponsors
9:00 Twestival Sumo Smackdown
10:00 Presentation by Glimmer of Hope
10:45 Performance by T-Bird and the Breaks
Sponsorship Levels
a.k.a. “The Tweet-for-Wells Twestival Auction”
Becoming a socially conscious business is more important than ever and sponsoring Twestival is a great way to introduce yourself to the increasing numbers of people using social networking while supporting a great cause. Since the lack of clean drinking water is a big problem across the world, we didn’t want to cap levels and risk filling them up. We are essentially auctioning off the most prominent branding spots to the highest donors in hopes that together, the Austin community will be able to donate multiple wells to the places that need them most.
Here are the levels of sponsorship. 100% of your donation will go to charity:water.
“RIO GRANDE” DONORS
(Goes to Top Three Donors by dollar amount)
Rio Grande donors will receive:
“RED” DONORS
(Goes to Donors Four-Six by dollar amount)
Red Donors will receive:
“BRAZOS” DONORS
(Goes to Donors seven-twelve by dollar amount)
Brazos donors will receive:
“COLORADO” DONORS
($150 and above)
Colorado Donors will receive:
“NUECES” DONORS
($1-$150)
HOW TO DONATE
(It’s easier than it sounds)
1.) Go to www.charitywater.org/twestival, make your donation while being sure to select “Austin” from the dropdown.
2.) Send your email receipt to the official Tweet-for-Wells Twestival Auctioneer, Brian Buser (@brianbuser) at brianbuser(at)gmail.com.
3.) Check the blog at http://austin.twestival.com periodically. Brian will be updating the blog with the top donors as we go along. On February 9th, he will announce the winner.
We will consider donor amounts for www.austintwestival.com banner space and links well through the event. In order to get your banner up at the event though, please make all donations before February 9, 2009.
RAFFLE SPONSORSHIP
(no money required.)
Austin Twestival will feature a raffle where party goers can place tickets in boxes next to items they would like to win. We will draw from each box to pick winners. This way, any item they win is something they would actually choose. We will feature all donors in an “Raffle Donors” section of the Austin Twestival website. To submit items to our raffle, please email Debbie Cerda at snaxxx(at)gmail.com.
For items worth over $300, you will be considered a sponsor. Please consider this.
MEDIA COVERAGE BEFORE WE’VE EVEN SOLD TICKETS
This event was already covered in TechCrunch and is sponsored by Mashable, one of the biggest blogs in the world. We currently have support from the Austin Chronicle and the event is already featured in do512.com. As this is a “tweetup”, many bloggers will be there taking pictures, sending messages via Twitter, and video recording the event. It is the biggest “tweetup” on record and it just feels good to take part.
We invite you to take part of this powerful demonstration of collaboration for the sake of the common good. Please email Michelle Greer at michelle(at)michellesblog.net if you have any questions. Thank you.
We posted asking for bands in Twitter, and sure enough 30 minutes later, TechRanch Austin stepped up and offered to pick up the tab. Many thanks to Jonas Lamis (@jonaslamis) and Kevin Koym (@kkoym) at TechRanch for stepping up to ensure this party will rock. We’d appreciate it if you’d hop into Twitter if you use and tell them thanks.
Now buy your tickets, people! We’ve done everything we can to ensure this event will not be one to miss. You can purchase them through Amiando.
There was a lot of back and forth between me and Josh Shepherd about what music to include. We liked the singers in the round, but since it was three people from three bands, we didn’t think it would draw. So who stepped up?
T BIRD AND THE BREAKS.
PLAY IT THAT VIDEO LINKED ABOVE. If I weren’t on a crappy version of WordPress, I’d embed it for you. If it doesn’t make you at least tap your foot, then you should seriously have someone check your pulse because you are probably dead. They get what this is all about and will be lending all of their mojo to raise money for charity:water. Although there are eleven members of this band, they are playing for just $450. This covers their expenses to actually get the band there. We are looking for a company to step up and cover this expense. You will be considered an Austin Twestival sponsor for doing so and will get signage, linkage, and mad love from the community. Please email michelle(at)michellesblog.net if interested.
We are crazy lucky and many of the other Twestival cities are jealous now.
The sumo suits we will have for the Sumo Suit Smackdown look like this.
Amiando is a bit jacked, so when they fix it, I’ll put up the links to purchase tickets. I PROMISE. Just make sure to keep February 12 clear and get your babysitter if you need one.
