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Coming Soon: LIVE! … from Relay for Life
Originally posted May 15, 200815 May
Thanks almost entirely to the creative work of WG’s own Scott Schnaars — whose wife Holly is a Cancer Survivor — WGx is honored to host a special live online event this weekend:
Willow Glen Relay for Life … live txt updates via Twitter
Here’s how Scott explains the project:
I’m really excited about it because Holly and I are doing a Survivor Lap prior to the main event kicking off. Unfortunately, a lot of people can’t say that.
This year the heads of the event are expecting close to 1,000 people, mostly people from the community, to walk and show their support.
Leading up to the event, Dave Keller, who manages the awesome Willow Glen Extra site, suggested that we build a Twitter bot to help people at the event communicate with one another. With 1,000 people floating around a high school track, sleeping in tents, it will be hard to find people you know in other groups. Twitter for good, so to speak.
The Bot is now live.
The Willow Glen Relay for Life starts at 10:00 am Saturday morning, with it’s “Survivors Lap” (including Scott & Holly), and concludes 24 hours later on Sunday. Live Twitter Text Updates like this will appear here over the weekend:
Oh … and if you haven’t already figured out why we are doing this … Make a Donation to the WG Relay for Life!
… Check out the Comments at the end of this post for instructions on joining the event live via Twitter!
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The Bot is now live. If you are living in Willow Glen and happen to be at the Relay for Life this weekend, do this:
Couldn’t be simpler.
We are looking forward to seeing you on Saturday night if you are in the area.
If you’d like to make a donation to the Relay for Life, you can do so here. - Thanks!
Simple Instructions for registered Twitter users:
That’s It! Simple!
You must have a Twitter account to send and receive these updates.
Neither WGx or Twitter charge fees for text messaging. Your cell phone carrier might, so check that out before going nuts.
Actually it *could* be easier…
1. From your mobile phone, text “follow wgxrelay” to 40404.
2. That’s it, there is no #2.
It would be fun also to put up signs at the event telling people how to send and receive updates. Thanks for helping us out with the real time coverage, WGx!
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