Category Archives: Good Deeds

GiveBIG Today with Seattle Foundation to Benefit Renewal Food Bank in Bellevue – 7am-Midnight

You are invited to be a part of Seattle Foundation’s GiveBIG TODAY, June 23 from 7am to midnight. GiveBIG is a one-day, online fundraising event sponsored by The Seattle Foundation.  Make a gift to World Impact Network’s Bellevue-based Renewal Food Bank TODAY ONLY 7am-midnight through The Seattle Foundation and a percentage of your gift will be…

Kyle MacDonald Traded Up from One Red Paper Clip to a House

Not sure if you’ve heard the story, but here is a 20/20 episode about the journey of Kyle MacDonald who realized his dream of owning a home by trading up from one red paper clip.  He also gets to meet some interesting people along the way, including Alice Cooper and Corbin Bernsen.  Very inspiring.  Thanks…

Hair is Harvested! On to Next Project!

After 32 months of growing hair for the benefit of disadvantaged children with medical challenges and Locks of Love (Seattle Children’s Hospital‘s recommended hair charity), my daughter Jackie Kennedy and I harvested the hair this afternoon. If you did not see it live, you can see a video of it here.

One Month Until Hair Farming Project is Over

I just realized that it is one month until I finally get to cut my hair – I wanted to do it a couple of months ago, but have been convinced to wait so that we can plan The Mane Event on Main – a celebration and party, benefit event where people can watch my…

Help Me Help Overlake Service League

I’m happy to report that I’ve signed on to help Overlake Service League with their social media marketing and you can help me help OSL. Overlake Service League has been helping children and families in Bellevue for 99 years!  They do a lot of great work – including feeding the hungry, giving scholarships to deserving…

Cash Reward Offered to Person Who Helps Me Secure Employment

As part of my recently launched social media campaign to secure employment, I am offering a cash reward of 1/2 of my first paycheck to the person who is instrumental in helping me find a job.  That means if you help me find a suitable position, I will be working for you for a full…

Social Media for Business 201 conference and Mane Event Scheduled for April 15th

Great news – we finally nailed down April 15, 2010 for as the date for the Social Media 201 conference to be held at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond.  The website is currently being built, but details including agenda, speakers and registration should be up next week at SocialMedia201.com. 

A Good Night Laugh …

Local Color Media is developing a new site for The Hair Farmer project in anticipation of us announcing the event where some ‘lucky’ bidder (the ‘right’ will be auctioned on ebay) will get to shave my hair in front of a couple hundred people – with proceeds going to Overlake Service League.  This demo page…

Wow – What a GREAT Way to Kick Off the Social Media Employment Campaign!

WOW – before I even had a chance to ‘officially’ launch my person social media campaign to find employment, there have already been a good number of people who are helping!

Thank You to Members of “The Mane Event” Planning Committee

On Saturday afternoon, we had the first meeting of the organizing committee for what has become known as “The Mane Event” (coined by Loma Gregg).  We met at Pearl in Bellevue for happy hour and got a lot accomplished.  I would like to thank everyone who showed up – including (in order of appearance):  Loma…