Method to the Mayhem

Todays blog post is different from my normal design related posts. @mayhemstudios is teaming up with @jumeau to help spread the word and bring awareness in preventing child abuse in America.

Prevent Child Abuse – America (PCA America) affects change at the governmental and community level. PCA promotes better child development process and provide parents with better conditions to be the kind of parents they want to be. Check out the PCA Website & blog for more information.

For the next 3 days, please help us to spread the word about preventing child abuse and be automatically entered to win 1 of the 5 free Bags/Belts (your choice) from Jumeau.

So how do you enter?
Simple! All you have to do is send the following Tweet on Twitter:

Enter To Win 1 of the 5 Free Bags/Belts From @Jumeau http://tr.im/hN0L #PCA-America

Rules
+ To enter, Tweet this message!
+ Enter multiple times! (10 entry max with extra 5 entries for every 1,000 followers you have)
+ More you Tweet the message, the better your odds of winning!
+ Entries will be accepted until 11:59 PM, EST on Saturday, March 28, 2009

But Wait there’s More!
Everyone that DONATES at least $10 directly to Prevent Child Abuse America will be entered to win one of ten $50 gift certificates from Jumeau – picked at random by PCA on Saturday.

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DONATE NOW!

Jumeau has pledged to donate 25% of all sales between now and Midnight on Friday to PCA. All you need to do is go to the Jumeau online store and use coupon code – “TwitterPCA” during the checkout.

Direct costs associated with child abuse and neglect including foster care services, hospitalization, mental health treatment, and law enforcement total more than $33 billion. Indirect costs of over $70 billion include loss of productivity as well as expenditures related to chronic health problems, special education, and the criminal justice system. To learn more about the PCA America report, please visit, www.preventchildabuse.org.

Jumeau routinely supports: non-profit events, school fundraisers, sports fundraisers, church/religious fundraisers. If you have an event, please contact Jumeau about participating.

Labels: Bags, Caring, Charity, Give, Help, Jumeau, PCA, Prevent Child Abuse, Support, Tweet, Twitter

Posted by Calvin Lee at Thursday, March 26, 2009 | Permalink | Comments

Jesse Newhart, Digital Media Explorer and owner of JesseNewhart.com has a really great video on his blog "How To Turn Twitter Followers into Friends." Jesse takes you through how to becoming friends with your followers and succeed in building relationships on Twitter.

Jesse uses me, Mayhem Studios as an example of how I built relationships on Twitter, by helping others out, participating, interacting, tweeting using information, retweeting others, being part of the community, replying to questions, having good manners and sharing part of your life.

Another great video, "Now Your Followers Are Friends. Now What?" from Khayyam Wakil, I am Khayyam blog. A follow up to Jesse's video, "How To Turn Twitter Followers into Friends."

Khayyam goes over how to use Twitalyzer and what all the numbers mean. Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social media.

He also talks about how Twitter is mainstream from ABC News, "Tweet Like a Bird: Your Guide."

So check out all the great videos and free to follow us on Twitter, @mayhemstudios @jessenewhart @iamkhayyam

Labels: Followers, Friends, Jesse Newhart, Khayyam, Retweet, Self-Promotion, Tips, Tricks, Tweet, Twitter, Video

Posted by Calvin Lee at Tuesday, March 17, 2009 | Permalink | Comments