calling all sponsors – help a good cause and be associated with a fun event #comment24

Post author By Trefor Davies
Post date Saturday, 31 December, 2011
26 Comments on calling all sponsors – help a good cause and be associated with a fun event #comment24

Many of you will already have heard of the world record we are going for on Thursday 5th Jan. This is for the most comments on an online news story in 24 hours.

Timico is sponsoring the first 2,000 comments. Yesterday Rob Pickering of ipcortex (great company) came up with £1 for each of the next 250 comments – totally unprompted and keen to support the cause (RNLI). Thanks Rob.

Now we are looking for more donors. Donating is easy – you can use the JustGiving page or hit the big green “DONATE NOW!” button in the sidebar. Leave your twitter username if you can – here or on the JustGiving site.

Note that the number of comments made is not actually associated with the amount of cash raised. In other words we don’t have to have the same number of comments as pounds and vice versa.

If you are a corporate sponsor and would prefer to send a cheque or do a bank transfer you can email me or call me – number is here.

This event is going to get some serious media coverage and sponsors will get very positive global PR out of it. As the world record is going to be formally submitted to Guinness World Records ® there is also the possibility of being associated with a long lasting record online. The value to sponsors could continue long after the event is over.

I will publish a list of major donors but in the meantime the Twitter list of sponsors here. (needs updating)

Tags #comment24, RNLI

By Trefor Davies

Liver of life, father of four, CTO of trefor.net, writer, poet, philosopherontap.com

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26 replies on “calling all sponsors – help a good cause and be associated with a fun event #comment24”

cool, put me down for a tenner, then I can do ten comments!
will probably do more comments than that knowing me, but can’t afford more dosh, someone else can subsidise me eh?
good luck with it all, every little helps
chris x

You don’t have to pay to leave a comment.

great stuff. really looking forward to it all. Hope its something that will set me off ranting, i could get a lot of comments done in a day if I am fired up.

You will have to wait and see:)

Put me down for £100 please Tref!

wow thanks Will yes I will

Hi Tref
Put me down for £50.00 will you.

Cheers
Gary

thanks Gary

[…] Also £2,000 started to look a bit paltry as a charitable donation for something that might attract global levels of attention. To be fair to the customer he was more than happy to continue helping and I spoke with the RNLI who suggested that we put a link in the blog post taking visitors to the RNLI website. This way visitors to the blog could also, if they chose, make their own donation supplementing Timico’s own input – basically now £1 per unique commenter up to 2k comments. This seemed to work for everyone. Update 3rd Jan – more sponsors are now continuously coming on board – check the most recent numbers here. […]

Me again

Please put Zen Internet down for £1000 Trefor.

Thanks
Gary

Put me down for £10 .

Mark

thanks mark

Hi can you please put us down for £25

will do thanks

I’ve once had a life boat called out for me – luckily a police launch was closer as the life boat had better things to do that come to my aid (a minor accident requiring a transfer to hospital), so put me down for £50