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Relay for Life Fundraising

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Allison, Eva and I will be participating in our local Relay for Life on Friday June 12-13, 2009. We participated in the relay last year as well. Our fund raising efforts have been scant so far. With so much going on it was difficult to get the word out.

So, I am calling upon the readership of BenSpark.com for some help.

In return for a $10 min donation I’ll add a link to your blog in a thank you post.

In return for a $25 min donation I’ll write a review of your blog.

In return for Tweeting the link to our donation page I’ll post your twitter name on to a #FollowFriday list.

“Help @alsparky #evaboo & @benspark raise $500 for Relay for Life http://urlbrief.com/8f72c0

“Donate $25 to the Relay for Life and get yourself a review on @benspark’s blog. https://benspark.com/relay-for-life-fundraising.html

I’d also appreciate anyone blogging about our walk. We are walking to join people around the world in celebrating those who have survived cancer, remembering the people we’ve lost, and supporting the lifesaving mission of the American Cancer Society.

We are also walking for family and friends who have endured, survived and succumbed to Cancer. Your donation will go to help fight against this insidious disease.

When you make a donation you are helping deliver the hope that future generations will not have to endure cancer threatening the lives of their friends and family. You have the power to fight back against a disease that affects millions.

The American Cancer Society has funded researchers that have been involved in virtually every cancer breakthrough, including mammography to screen for breast cancer, the Pap smear to test for cervical cancer, the link between smoking and lung cancer, and more recently the link between obesity and a higher risk for the disease. Forty of the researchers it funded early in their careers have gone on to win the Nobel Prize!

You can be sure your donation will be put to good use!

16GB iPod Touch Winner

In conjunction with Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs 2 I received a sponsorship prize from Market Leverage so that I could offer an online contest for the online fans of the Speed of Thought Players as well as for fans of Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs 2. Market Leverage supplied me with a Generation 2 16GB iPod Touch (I don’t even have one of those, what a sweet prize). I ran the contest and gave participants tons of ways to literally earn limitless entries. However, in the end it just comes down to random luck, although you could certainly have improved your odds of that luck being yours. I had a number of people who entered the contest and among them there were 404 total entries. So I listed out everyone’s entries. For each entry I put their name on a list that gave me my initial list of 404.

Then I tweeted out

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To which I received a response from @joetech who said the number 24. I responded in a tweet

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So I went to Random.org and ran my list of 404 names through the list randomizer 24 times. I stopped at 12 to tweet again just to get a little excitement building.

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I resumed my randomizing and so I continued on to randomize the list the full 24 times.

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I took my list and then ran the random integer generator and it gave me 237 as the winning number.

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Well 237 was the winning number so I tweeted that out for all to see.

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Okay I’ll stop stringing you along, the winner of the 16GB iPod Touch is….

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That’s right Andrew Beard was the winner of the 16GB iPod Touch. He goes by @anoo on Twitter.

I want to thank Dina Riccobono of Market Leverage for getting me the 16GB iPod Touch as a prize. I also want to thank everyone who took the time to comment contest on my two posts about Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs II. Being Responsible and Blogs, Brews 2 Recap. I also want to thank IZEA for being the sponsor of Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs 2 when the original sponsor drop ped out.