Screencapture of photo by Brian Westbrook

90 minutes! Today I presented at Gnomedex 8.0. (My slides are here). I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge, and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge.

My first fundraising effort was to send Leng Sopharath to college her first year in November 2006 took 3 weeks to raise $800. In 2007, Chris Brogan and 81 other people helped raise enough money in 24 hours for her college tuition and in a few days were able to raise enough to help support another student. So, my challenge was: Can this room of highly connected gnomedexers get 250 people to donate $10 by the end of the conference?

I sent them to my tweet and asked them to donate and ask a friend or retweet. Chris and Ponzi kicked it off by giving $100 on the stage.(THANK YOU!)

Photo by motogrrl

Buzz Bruggeman (above) said pass the hat. Then I answered questions. What I didn't see going on was the back channel (captured by Marshall K in Iterasi in a cool slide show). Geoff Livingston kicked it off by tweeting his donation. Later Jeremy Wright kept tweeting out matching challenges.

At 90 minutes, we raised $2,657 from 112 donors - plus whoever gave cash (probably another 125 people giving a total of $902). Thank you. The ball kept rolling - the combined total as of $3,774.

THANK YOU GNOMEDEXers and everyone who contributed. YOU ALL ROCK. We're solving real problems!

Donors via PayPal (as of 8.23.08)

Beth Kanter

Rikke Sorensen

Suzanne Cline

Yesenia Sotelo

Donna Callejon

Peggy Baker

John Powers

Emily Williamson

Wiebke Herding

Ayelet Baron

Nicholas Booth

David Krumlauf

Jeff Barr

Geoff Livingston

jeremy wright

Brittney Raybould

Eric Rice

Jay Cross

Duncan Rawlinson

Cassandra Wallender

Josiah Taylor V

Josh Bancroft

Duncan Riley

Steven Bao

Marshall Kirkpatrick

Tanya Bray

Krishnan Subramanian

Diedra Wylie

G Watson

Shawn Rogers

Danny Sullivan

Timothy Wood

William Corrigan

Londa Quisling

joseph solomon

Francine Hardaway

Seth Strumph

Scott Maentz

Andru Edwards

Joseph Thornley

Kristin Redlinger

Marina Martin

Tara Hunt

dietrich ayala

Eve Maler

Alexander Weishaupl

Uwe Sommer

Troy Malone

G Jason Hart

Rick Turoczy

Scott Maxwell

Damon Cortesi

Ranvir Gujral

Brian Dorsey

Scott Ruthfield

Jennifer McCabe

John Rogers

Connie Reece

Randy Stewart

Jim Murphy

Alberto Lopez

Stuart Maxwell

Brian Eisenberg

Steven Edinger

Dana Lookadoo

Dana Oshiro

David Risley

Lee LeFever

Matthew Morgan-May

Shashi Bellamkonda

eric levine

Kathy Gill

Marcus Whitney

Chad Henderson

marianne richmond

Todd Martini

James Nelson

Andrew Olanoff

Andrew Hyde

Kevin Sandridge

Christopher Sloop

Derek Miller

Tristram Hussey

laura fitton

Brooks Duncan

Andrew Kaufman

Rebecca Bucich

Brian Westbrook

Clara Kuo

Tetsuto Yabuki

Kenny Lauer

Steve Dembo

Carla Lynne Hall

Joshua Gunn

Elizabeth Grigg

Dr. Sharon Laubach

Todd O'Reilly

Adam Mercado

Karen Swim

Henry Thiele

Matthew Miller

Robert Uva

Walter Schwabe

Joseph Thornley

Sandra Niehaus

Veronique S Christensen

Elisa Butler

R Josh Quarles

Jason Ruby

Raworahi Foundation

Arthur Germain

LaDonna Coy

Chad Norman

Dave Evans

Kevin Marks

Elithea Whittaker

Rami Reddy Vatrapu

Julie Gomoll

Ann Kingman

Thomas Tague

Shirley Williams

Quitrina Diaz

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