Raleigh,

Twestival is all about ‘Local’ this fall. It’s still happening across the globe, but it’s up to us to pick our favorite local charity and make this event count for Raleigh. Do you want to get involved? It will take the help of just a few passionate, creative, strong helping hands to make Twestival Local happen in Raleigh and make a difference in the lives of some deserving individuals. What do you say?

Some background on Twestival Local:

• What is a Twestival? Simply put: it’s a volunteer driven event, organized in short time via twitter, to benefit charitable causes.
• Have you done this before? Yes, check out the fantastic event we did in February 2009. See all of the great sponsors and volunteers still listed in our sidebar. Read the blog archive for even more background.
• What is Twestival Local 2009 all about?
• What are the guidelines for picking a local charity?
• Where are other cities getting involved? See the sidebar list and map on twestival.com
• How do we pull this off? There are cool tools we can use (in addition to twitter) for Twestival Local

Volunteer Positions Needed:

1. City Organizer
2. Volunteer Coordinator
3. Venue Organizer
4. Sponsor Coordinator
5. Media Coordinator
6. Website / Twitter Coordinator
7. Event Volunteers (several positions)
8. Photographer
9. Videographer

Key Dates:

• August 25th - City registration closes, charity submission needed
• Sept 10-13th - Event to take place this week

Obviously some of these duties could be combined but I wanted to break things down and make it a team effort as much as possible. If you are interested in getting involved, please follow @raltwestival on twitter. I am planning to have Skype calls during the evening hours this week to fill volunteer positions. Please DM @raltwestival or email raleightwestival at gmail if you are interested.

There are three new videos on MyNC this week featuring sponsors and attendees of the Raleigh Twestival charity tweetup for Charity:Water.

• Shannon Smith discusses his clean water cause - and bringing together Churches, Micro-finance and Drills in Africa
• Twitter Confessions
• Twitter Sponsors

Follow Shannon Smith on twitter, to reach out to assist him with a personal clean water project for Kenya. Special thanks to Lisa Sullivan and Jenna Loomer for shooting and producing these for us! And I echo my previous gushing about the hyper-local MyNC team and the fine folks over at NBC17.

@theRab

Thank you thank you thank you. Through the generosity of our fantastic Raleigh Twestival attendees, we raised $1010.00 in cash on February 12th at Edge Office. This number represents donations from $20 at-door fees, $2 “water offsets” and Raffle ticket sales. Add this to the ticket sales, tipjoy pledges and direct donations and we raised $2284.40 in total.

Hey did you know you can view all of the Raleigh Twestival Raffle Winners? Just search twitter for hashtag #raltwestivalgc

Did I say

thank you

?!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Photog @abbyladybug’s thoughts on the word “Twestival” (via Rab on Vimeo)

Click here to view the embedded video.

I discussed hashtags and social “cause” media marketing with @superprosperous at Edge Office the other night at Twestival. What are your ideas for our next event? Plus, stay tuned for startup weekend.

I’m a bit silly but hear me out. My funny valentine and i are getting each other his and hers iPhones tomorrow. I want to give the first tweet from said iPhone to the person who gives a donation to Charity:Water in Raleigh’s name. This generous person will also receive an iTune Gift Card in addition to all the positive twitter karma. Thanks for playing.

My first iPhone Tweet auction

Here are my answers to the Twestival city organizer survey. Feel free to comment on the questions or answers and send me additional note-worthy links.

Organizer Name: Ryan Boyles
Twitter @name: @theRab
Email: raleightwestival at gmail
City: Raleigh
Country: USA
Your Twestival site url - include http:// http://raleigh.twestival.com

@names of those on your city Twestival team - include @ and one name per line
@ralTwestival
@dgtlpapercuts
@dimambro
@swerves7
@toastysnacks
@waynesutton
@kbodnar32
@kimetzel84
@jreesnc
@base10

Total attendance at your Twestival
~100 (tickets + door)

Total amount raised at your Twestival (include currency)
$2284.40 (updated 2/15)

What does this total include?

Amiando tickets
Cash on the night
Tipjoy
PayPal via charity: water

Have you transferred all your money?
No

How have you transferred your money?
Will do PayPal this week.

Highlights of your Twestival

Selling “Water Offsets” to attendees, Raffle with sponsor donations such as entire music catalog from Ramseur Records (The Avett Brothers label), Photo booth at entrance, Video booth by MyNC.com for reflections, Live stream for audience. See more on our blog. Chef Ed’s food, Lone Rider Beer, many meeting each other for the first time face to face.

Would you support charity: water again, or would you like to support another cause?
Yes

If no, which charity? (include url with http://)

I thought it was better to ask our community and on the same question on twitter.

In your own words, what did this experience mean to you?

Incredible way to give back and to those less fortunate. Everyone was so supportive of this event to do good and have fun doing it. We have built a large social networking community here in the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, NC). We have done a lot to help each through sharing knowledge and technical skills, and it is time to give something back. We are harnessing the power of social media for social change.

Press and web coverage of your Twestival - include urls with http://

Raleigh MyNC videos
Wake County MyNC
Press Release
Press Release on MyNC
ABC WTVD
CompellingMarketing blog
NCTwestival united site
Raleigh bloggers

Links to pictures and video of your Twestival - include urls with http://

Flickr group pool
Photo Booth mosaic and slideshow
Raleigh Twestival HD Video on Vimeo
One in six of us have no access to clean water video appears on NBC17 on 2/11 during 7pm newscast
One in six of us have no access to clean water video reblogged on IBM Smarter Planet tumblr
Raleigh Twestival Vimeo group
YouTube Raleigh Twestival videos
LiveEarth Raleigh Twestival videos
Raleigh Twestival organizers Seesmic video

Any additional/questions/feedback

This isn’t all of our video content, we’ll be working on more to be put on our blog this week.

This was one of the questions from Twestival HQ to the city organizers. I thought this was a better question for our Triangle twitter community. Answer Yes, No. If no, what charity should we consider? (include url)

Edge Office LiveEarth stream with @theRab
Originally uploaded by waynesutton12

We’re all enjoying some much deserved downtime this weekend with our families, friends and valentines. Coming up over the next week or two we’ll be posting some new content from the event and from our lovely twestival attendees and gracious sponsors. Expect photos, videos and other cool things to reflect on our Raleigh Twestival and we’ll share with you what is coming up next for the “tweeple” of the Triangle. Are you social Carolina? Stay tuned….

P.S. comment here with your suggestions, questions, content for us to talk about, and cool stuff we can reblog. Thanks!!

A quick shout-out to our sponsors. Thank you to Raleigh Twestival sponsors + MyNC.com. We’ll have some video thanks through out the next couple of weeks, plus segments from MyNC. Thanks again, and stay tuned.

raleigh.mync.com, ginny skalski, edge office, marvelinc.com, lone rider beer, linkingraleighnc.com, ramseur records, decision 3d, tweet shops, rudinos, clickoptimize.com, dogearnation.com, edward mckay books, ignite social media, eco-modernism.com, mur lafferty, northhillsbuzz.com, newraleigh.com, tweet shirts, all about beer, phenixsolutions.com, wakefield atv, comedy worx, hibernian pub, solas raleigh, the duck and dumpling, naturalmath, frenzied artists, the rialto, fuzzy-ink.com