I recently joined Twitter on the recommendation of a friend of mine, Kelli Catana (@kellidaisy). I was a little skeptical at first about Twitter but once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it. I have made some great connections with people and have discovered a lot interesting people and businesses in my community. But it was just recently that I discovered how powerful Twitter can really be and how generous of a community it really is.
Our office recently signed on to be part of The Ottawa Food Bank Drive Away Hunger Campaign. As we were nearing the end of the campaign I was a little disappointed to see that we had no one drop any donations off to the office. Our office manager Jocelyne (@jocelynewhite) was going to purchase a donation on behalf of our office but we were really hoping that our community would help out as well so we could make a large donation to the Food Bank. That was when Twitter saved the day!
I had taken to Twitter to appeal to my local followers that we were looking for donations when Shawna (@ParlezShawna) the local Parlez Wireless Telus rep tweeted that Parlez Wireless wanted to make a donation. Awesome! But that wasn't all. It seemed that Boston Pizza Orleans (@BPOrleans) was hosting a tweet up for local twitterers and one of the participants, Laurie St. Julien (@lauriestj) suggested that they turn the tweet up into a food drive! Local photographer Cherie-Lynn Buchanan (@CLBuchananPhoto) then agreed to raffle off the chance to win a free mini-session for anyone who brought a minimum of 5 food items for donation. Leslie from Boston Pizza then added an additional $25 gift certificate as well. By the end of the tweet up, 10 different twitterers has each brought in a generous donation for our office food drive! Laurie and Candace Derickx, the owners of The Best Tools for Schools even went so far as to provide a few cases of food!
So at the end of the day our office was able to provide a generous donation to the Ottawa Food Bank to help those in our community who are in need this holiday season. I would like to give a big thank you to the following people from twitter for their generous donations; @ParlezShawna, @LisaLarter, @LaurieStJ, @bitofmomsense, @BPOrleans, @Kellidaisy, @Sheila_gh, @LiteMochaMom, @MrsLoulou, @GlidingLara, @CandaceDX, @CLBuchananPhoto. So thank you to these people and thank you to Twitter for allowing me to make these connections!
On behalf of my entire team I would like to wish all of you a very Happy Holiday Season!
Paul
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