Posts Tagged ‘ #floodofsupport ’

Abundance, eager hands and #askaconductor

December 6, 2010
Abundance, eager hands and #askaconductor

TweetIn less than two days, #askaconductor will officially kick off. Australians will be the first to the scene, as their December 8 starts 16 hours ahead of New York. The current participant count stands at 43 conductors, including former New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel! I’m pretty stoked. This morning, Beth Kanter graciously...
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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

August 10, 2010

TweetThe title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. How did I get to the number? In my small-scale “free agent” crowdfunding experiment for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, I ended up with $235 from 1,000 followers by the deadline. That translates to $0.24 per follower. The goal was $1,000, or...
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One more week of #floodofsupport

July 27, 2010
One more week of #floodofsupport

TweetWe have a little less than a week to go for my little crowdfunding experiment #floodofsupport. I have been learning some good lessons already, which–beside doing a good deed–was the point. Right now, unfortunately, I’m still ways away from the $1,000 goal. The project started out well, but has been stagnant for the last...
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1,000 followers on Twitter: from slacktivism to activism (#floodofsupport)

July 14, 2010
1,000 followers on Twitter: from slacktivism to activism (#floodofsupport)

TweetWe all know that Nashville got hit with a terrible flood a few months ago. This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO). The orchestra’s damages were approximately $42 million and after insurance and support from FEMA, the remaining financial gap could be as much as $10 million. A flood is no...
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