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Take an eduFire Classe for Charity
Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by Koichi.
Jon and Marco are doing something really cool right now – they’re teaching two absolutely amazing classes, and donating 100% of the proceeds to charity. I’m really looking forward to both of these classes, not just because it’s making a difference, but because the content is fascinating as well. Let’s see what they’re teaching!
How to Easily and Effectively Answer 99% of Your Questions
In an average day we each ask ourselves hundreds or even thousands of questions…How do I market my business? How do I cure myself of this illness? How do I fix my computer?
Increasingly success is determined by our ability to quickly and effectively find answers to many of our questions. In this one-hour presentation I’ll walk through how I use tools like message boards, Facebook, Twitter and Google to get fast and effective answers to many of the questions I face. It’s a big part of the “secret sauce”! :)
This class has a $5 fee associated with it. However, I will be donating 100% of my proceeds to a non-profit I strongly believe in called KIPP. KIPP stands for Knowledge is Power Program and so by signing up for this class you’ll be empowering yourself with knowledge and helping to empower students in low-income areas.
February 17, 5:00pm PST – Join this class now!
That one’s happening in the next 24 hours, so get on that one soon while you still can. If you haven’t taken a class from Jon before, you always come away feeling like you’re ready to take on the world. That’s inspiration + presentation + a bit of Jon Bischke for ya. Let’s look at the other class, by Marco.
Special Memory Class
Please note that I am having eduFire donate 100% of my fee for this class to an amazing charity: http://www.roomtoread.org/
The eduFire team appreciates that money is tight with all of us at the moment in this current economic climate. Therefore, they have kindly donated a couple of eduFire t-shirts and also free coupon codes (value up to $25) for me to give away during this class!
The class will be focused on helping you remember something you never thought possible, so much information, and yet you’ll be able to remember it! Amaze your friends, amaze yourself, chance to win stuff and most of all you’ll be giving to a wonderful cause! Fabulous.
Please do get your friends and family to join, even those who may not have registered on eduFire before, NOW is the time to come! Let’s try and fill the class up with 99 students!
March 8, 3:00pm PST – Join this class now!
Marco is another fabulous teacher – I took a memory class from him a few weeks ago, and came away being able to memorize a list of fifteen different things in a matter of minutes. I could read it backwards, out of order, in order, whatever. To this day, I can still recite the items on the list. I can’t imagine what a class like this one would do to someone. 100 things, perhaps? 1000? I suppose you’ll have to see for yourself!
If you have a passion for learning, and want to help a couple of good causes, sign up for these classes today, and come away a bit smarter! Look forward to seeing you there!
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Twittering for a Good Cause: eduFire + Room To Read
Posted on 02. Feb, 2009 by jon.
Last Thursday night we all did something really fun on Twitter. Koichi was running one of his Twitter classes that night and we wanted to do something fun that would get people using Twitter. Earlier in the day we had given away a few free classes and T-shirts but I thought it would be neat to use Twitter to help out one of our favorite charities, Room To Read.
I was first exposed to Room To Read a couple of years ago when I read John Wood’s excellent book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World. Wood’s story of leaving a high-profile (and well-paying!) corporate job to help improve literacy in the developing world is incredibly inspirational. As someone who is very passionate about bringing world-class educational opportunities to those who are less fortunate it resonated strongly with me.
On Thursday night we decided to use Twitter to raise some money and awareness for Room To Read. KyNam Doan does a great job of summing up what went down in this blog post so I’ll just provide the quick details here. Basically we put the word out that for about an hour and a half we were willing to donate $1 to Room To Read for everyone who re-tweeted our message. This was a little bit scary because we didn’t cap the amount so in theory we could have had thousands of people re-tweeting the message in that time span (lesson learned there…probably a good idea to cap stuff like this!).
What happened was awesome to watch. We dm’ed a few folks who we thought would want to re-tweet but for the most part we just put it out there and watched what happened. It was really cool to see the viral effect as people passed this along to others. What was awesome too was to see people checking out Room To Read. Even more impactful than the money that we’re donating is that hundreds of people heard about Room To Read, most of them likely for the first time.
At the end of the day we counted 186 re-tweets (we decided to include re-tweets that came in after 9 PM PST as well) and so we’re rounding up and donating $200 to Room To Read. To help track re-tweets we put the #edufire hashtag in the post and were pleasantly surprised to see the hashtag show up on the homepage of Twitter Search that night.
Yup, there we were, right next to Blago, Obama and the Super Bowl. :)
We really had a lot of fun doing this and probably will do it again sometime. It’s a great opportunity to shine a spotlight on a deserving educational non-profit and there are a lot of them out there (e.g., Curriki.org, Donors Choose, etc.). And it’s a good way for the community to come together and do some virtual and viral good.
Thanks to all who helped us out be re-tweeting and definitely go check out Room To Read and see if you can help them out in any way!!
