Back in late November/early December of last year, a group of people on Twitter (#hohoto) in Toronto planned an amazing social networking event in support of Toronto’s Daily Bread Foodbank.
The response was overwhelming. Let’s keep the momentum going. The Daily Bread needs ongoing support every month of the year, not just at Christmas. And we need social events to keep us happy and sane. Put the two together and you’ve got one great night, one great speaker, a great social networking event and the Daily Bread is not forgotten.
Michael Bungay Stanier is an amazing life and business coach who makes learning what motivates you and others fun. He was named Canada’s best life coach of the year in 2006 and has spent much of his time travelling all around the world in the last 2 years passing on his inspiration. In the meantime his best-selling motivational toolkit sold out before I could even get my hands on one of them. This man is a hot commodity!
Click on this link http://possibilityvirus.com to watch Michael’s award winning online movie 8 Irresistible Principles of Fun; it’s the foundation of what he’ll be speaking about on February 5th.
Purchase tickets for February 5th on INSPIRE-ites! website at http://inspire-ites.memberlodge.com
$10.00 from every ticket will be donated to Toronto’s Daily Food Bank.
(By the way, Michael does have a 3 day workshop you can attend – if you can still get a ticket – just before INSPIRE-ites! February 5th date and it will only cost you more than $800.00 to attend, or you can spend $40.00 and see him up close and personal for 2 hours on February 5th and give to Toronto’s Daily Bread.)
Bins will also be set up for food donations.
Invest in your personal development to learn how to motivate and be motivated and know that you are giving of yourself past yourself. Let’s keep the commitment for making a difference ongoing. Food and money is needed by the Daily Bread throughout the year and more often than not they get forgotten once the season of giving has passed. Keep the party, the fun, the giving and spirit of generosity alive. Let’s do what Twitterers do best: Feed your soul while feeding others. It’s social networking at its best!
January 12, 2009 at 8:59 pm
If you want to use #hohoto’s name to convince people to give you their money, you should be giving all of the money you collect, less ticketing and hard cash event costs, to the Food Bank. Anything less is deceptive.
This is not social networking at its best.
January 12, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I’m sorry you feel this way. I am still going to give $10.00 of every ticket to the Daily Bread Foodbank. I have to pay $1000 for the venue (unless someone knows a space that is willing to donate) and I have to pay the speaker and I have to pay the AV costs and decorations and everything else that goes into these events. None of these speaker events has ever turned a profit, because they are not set up that way, although my company is a corporation. If I were a non-profit organization I would’nt be charged the rates that businesses have to pay. Professional speakers are not cheap; and you can research that or call Michael yourself and ask him was his going rate is. By donating $10.00 out of every $40.00 I am only covering costs. I spoke with someone who suggested I use the #hohoto url because they knew I had planned to donate money from each ticket sale and to do this event just at cost and not to make a profit. All INSPIRE-ites! events have a charitable organization or foundation to them. One of my commitments my own personal spiritual well being was to donate to Daily Bread every month throughout 2009 to keep the hohoto vision going past Christmas. And yes I saw the opportunity to increase that donation, done in hohoto’s name and not my own, through this event. Suggest some solutions on how to avoid the costs of the venue, brochures, speakers fees, AV, set up, take down, etc.
Give me some legitimate solutions
January 13, 2009 at 9:10 am
Who said you could use the #hohoTO tag for this obvious shill session?
Seems rather distasteful. Were you even at the original #hohoTO? I highly doubt it.
Please remove the tag from your posts & tweets, you have no right to use it, and the spirit of this event has NOTHING in common with the idea and mentality behind #hohoTO