When it was proposed that I should donate a date- dinner and drinks with julia roy -to the global Twestival ebay auction, I immediately said yes. I thought it would be fun, to offer up a real social experience on ebay benefiting charity: water, a cause I truely believe in, admire and support.
I had the pleasure of working and brainstorming with charity: water (along with many other amazing nyc volunteers) to organize the Twestival in New York event. Twestival was initiated by @amanda, and as her message spread through Twitter 100+ cities began to organize, independently planning twitter-powered events for February 12th to benefit charity: water. On the night of the event Twitterfolk partied, tweeted and donated more than $250,000 to the cause. When a powerful social network comes together to make a difference, it does.
I'm proud, because my ebay auction raised $1,549. Putting myself up for bidding was quite the experiment for me, but I had a blast and even made the homepage of ebay.com. If your interested- check out the lucky winner ;)
