Wilmington Twestival Was a Complete Success!
For those of you who came out last night, (over 60 people) our Wilmington Twestival was an incredible display of how social media can impact people, and organizations for the good. Twestivals were held simultaneously last night (February 13, 2009) for Charity: Water, in an effort to raise awareness, and donations for cleaner water in under-developed lands. Twitter was the main “tool” of social media we used to organize this event in literally 10 days..amazing. Pictures of last night are at bottom of this post, if you have any to add to this, send them! Leave comments too.
How much did our Twestival Raise?
We just got our final donation called in this morning from Ana Dawson, with Pre-Paid Legal Services, she and her associates donated $220, and plan on giving a total of $500.00! So with that amount and 100% donations off ticket sales last night we will be able to donate $1,205.00!!!
Our goal was $4,000, but in all honesty, we met, and exceeded our goal. This amount will help fund clean drinking water for 1000’s of people, Wilmington, we should be proud! Remember this was a global event, I can’t wait to see the total numbers from the over 180 cities….Be sure to visit the Twestival site, and Charity: Water site for details soon.
Who else helped us last night? We had two local TV stations reporting on this event, WECT, and WWAY, take a look one of their stories here. Star News wrote a wonderful article about our event too, in fact, they were a major contributor of getting the word out; here are a couple more articles they wrote:
“Wilmington Twestival to raise money for charity”
“Do Some Good: Meet local Twitterers at the Twestival”
There were so many people that helped with our Twestival, several businesses, and gifted organizers, and I want to personally thank all of you for making this a success. Below is a list of businesses, and all Twitter’ers, and non-Twitter users that supported the event, if I have missed anyone, please send me an email so I can add you to the list!
Star News Online – Our major sponsor.
Shannan Bowen & Jim Ware..You both were awesome!
Perspective Internet Marketing – Organizing the event. (This was fun)
Ty & Crystal Downing & Tim Moore..Whatever.
3rd Street Plaza – This social media site helped stage the event.
Everyone on 3rd Street!
Wilmington Sea Dawgs – They donated 50 free tickets to their games!
Thanks Sea Dawg office & William Lang!
Spectrum Art & Jewelry – Donated a gift certificate for Jewelry.
Star Sosa…We must meet!
Indo Jax Surf School – Donated Free week of surf lessons & one private lesson.
Richard Perry, you da man! Tell Indo owner thanks! I need his name here too.
Best Buy – Donated a iPod Nano.
Thank you Mr. Manager in blue shirt.
ASAP Shirt Co. – Donated t-shirts at cost.
Rick, you printed these in one day? You are awesome!
Budget Blinds of Wilmington – Donated the money for t-shirts.
Chris & Radonna Torgeson, love the Tees, thanks so much! I hear you sell Awnings & Closets?
Le Bleu Water – Donated cases of bottled water.
Pamela Morris, you pulled some strings, so thanks!
Jerusalem Wraps Café – Donated delicious wraps and food.
Amir, what can I say, your food is excellent!
Port City Pub – Donated their bar, beer, and staff for our event.
Ed & Ed, you were gracious hosts!
Who helped organize Wilmington Twestival?
Bruce Brown – Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty
Ty Downing – Perspective Internet Marketing
Crystal Glass – Wife 
Tim Moore – Say It Social – Social Media Consulting
Shannan Bowen – Star News
Jim Ware – Star News
Richard Perry – Akira Media
Steven Harrell – Sophic Internet Marketing
William Lang – Port City Color Copy
Jayson Conway – WWAY
Honorable Mention
Bruce Brown For all his efforts workin’ the twitter, and video waves!
Wal-Greens – Gift card for food.
Pita Delight – Gift card for food.
Wilmington Roller Derby girls for coming with free tickets. (Hi “Crasher” don’t hurt me)
Who were our local Twitter’ers last night? Please follow each other! (If you were there last night and don’t see your name below, please leave it in the comments)
Ty Downing – @TyDowning
Crystal Glass – @orangeandlime
Tim Moore – @TimMoore
Sandy Guerriere – @SandyTweets
Bruce Brown – @brucebrownnc
Steven Harrell – @stevenharrell
Shannan Bowen – @shanbow
Jim Ware – @jimware
Richard Perry – @akiramedia
Jayson Conway @4spoken
Si Cantwell – @SiCantwell
Reggie Shropshire – @coachreggie
Debbie Elliott – @TalkDebbie
Mark Fulton – @DotSauce
Margaret Harding – @m2harding
Nicole Hughes – @nic_ole
Michael Hughes – @wulfpak05
Bob Jenkins – @bobtheteacher
William Lang – @port_city_color
Rachel Livingston – @raeenna
Holly Manning – @holly2305
Bret Nelson – @binelson
Rebecca Powell – @CoastalMail
Rachel Rowell – @rachelrowell
Judy Royal – @royalja
Shelby Sebens – @shelbsnc26
Shawn Smock – @ShawnAtTalk
Radonna Torgeson – @rtorgie
Chris Torgeson – @ctorgeson
Matt Trostle – @trostle
Veronica Williams – @veronicaw
Ed Sinram – @portcitypubEd
Pictures From Last Night
Thank you everybody, we’ll see you around Twitter’ville…and Twestvial 2010!!
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