On Top of Africa Update

Ok so I set up my online donations page with MyCharity.ie. The address is: http://www.mycharity.ie/event/acekildare/

Kilimanjaro Climb in aid of ChildAid

So I'm going to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro this August for ChildAid (www.childaid.ie).

I'm calling this project (as I'm sure you can see) "On Top of Africa".

My original plan was to raise all of the money myself and then try to match that amount with sponsorship.

Unfortunately I can't afford the full amount (5900 euro) myself so the new plan is to raise half of the money myself and the other half with sponsorship.

To this end I've set up a cafepress shop (www.cafepress.com/acekildare). All of the profit from this shop will be going towards the Kilimanjaro climb. I'm also going to make a justgiving page for direct sponsorship and I'll let you know here when that's up and running.

Any help and support anyone can give will be much appreciated.

Random Tweets of Kindness

"Right, new game. Random Tweets of Kindness. Each day, tweet something nice or uplifting to a stranger. Let's see if it catches on. Please RT"

That was my original Tweet on the subject.

Random Tweets of Kindness is a game I thought of for Tweeters/Twitterrers/Whatever they're called. Basically I was thinking of the Random Acts of Kindness movement and thought it'd be nice to just try to do something to cheer someone up from the comfort of your own Twitter. Since Twitter is such a massive network with what appears to be quite a community of users I was interested in seeing if the idea would catch on, and what people thought of it.

I figure the best way to get the idea out there is to have people ReTweet the idea and to that end I sent a tweet to @stephenfry and a Direct Message to @dcorsetto (which unfortunately didn't send.)

I chose these two from my Follows list because they each have such large followings, Danielle because of her fantastic webcomic Girls With Slingshots and Stephen because, well, he's such a legend.

It was only after sending out these Tweets that I realised that if I started a blog and made a post about the game, then tweeted the URL of the post and had that RT'd things would be a lot easier.

So the "rules" of the game are:

• Every Day (this is flexible, not everyone tweets everyday, but whenever you're on)
• Send one (or more) Tweet(s), saying something nice and or uplifting
• To a stranger. It makes the entire process more random if you Tweet to someone you don't know, to avoid relying on your Following or Follows lists, use Twitter's search, type in a random word, and pick someone who comes up in the results.
• Start the Tweet with "Random Tweet of Kindness" so we can see how far the game spreads.
  

So that's the game. Please ReTweet this link so others can read the post and get the idea. And if you want to play the game, great, the more the merrier.

@AceKildare

@AceKildare's Too Big To Tweet

Ok, so I never thought I'd be a blogger but here we go...

The reason for this blog is, try as I might, sometimes I'm just not able to play my original Twitter game of "cut to 140 and post". The idea behind this was to try to use proper spelling (no txt spk!) and grammer but still get across the full point of whatever I was trying to say in my "Tweets".

So for this reason, I decided to start the blog for anything I wanted to say that was "Too Big To Tweet" (aren't I clever?).

The blog will not necesarily be updated regularly, and will not be a diary or running commentary of my life. I plan to only use it as a last resort after I definitely can't fit what I want to say into 140 characters.

Or so that's the plan. Let's see how it works out.