This is a cross-posting from the 12for12k blog. Throughout December, the 12for12k focus is on the homeless and how you can help in your own towns and cities.
There’s no donation widget this month – we’re offering a more hands-on challenge. By all means, if you wish to donate cash as well as the time and items we’ll be suggesting, that’d be great as well. So, with that said, let’s get into our streets this month and really help those that [...]

As you may know, I’m part of the 12for12k social media-led charity initiative that supports a different charity each month throughout 2009.
October’s chosen charity is Musicians on Call, an amazing group of folks that take the healing power of music to bed-ridden hospital patients. They currently operate in four cities across the U.S. and amazingly a whole program can be operated for one year with just $10,000.
Tonight sees a live concert take place to help raise funds and awareness for [...]

If you’ve been hanging around me the last couple of days (and thanks for the company!), you’ll know that there’s been a little back and forth activity about a blog post regarding 12for12k. The details and response can be found here. An apology has since been issued, so I’m not going to dwell on the subject too long.
Instead, I wanted to share this with everyone who’s been around – you know who you are. You’re the living proof that friendships [...]

This is in response to a blog post over at Barbara Talisman’s blog, where she makes various disparaging remarks (and, at times, low blows) about the 12for12k Challenge. I’m posting here since Barbara has comment moderation switched on at hers.
Hi there Barbara,
I thought I recognized the name and company – you contacted me earlier this year through email (and then phone call) suggesting that donations raised go to your company instead of the charities. You would then use this [...]

I was going to add some note here that would try explain the reasons behind this short little video, but I think it does it perfectly on its own. And, if you want to find out more, you can check out the details here. Cheers!

One of the advantages of blogging is that you can make public service-type announcements without the nasal speaker voice. Of course, some folks have said I blog as if I speak with a nasal tone, so no change there! Anyhoo…
I just wanted to update you with a few little tidbits of information that you may (or may not) be interested in. So, feel free to class this post as useful, semi-useful, not really useful or useless – the choice, as [...]

This post is a little different from normal and is for the 12for12k Challenge, the charity project I founded for 2009.
It’s to tell you about the special 12for12k Tweet-a-Thon, which takes place on Twitter between 10.00am and 10.00pm Eastern on Thursday March 19 (today). This is the unique 12-hour Tweet event to raise money for this month’s charity, Share Our Strength, which combats child hunger in the US. The Tweet-a-Thon is Scott Stratten (@unmarketing) ‘s baby.
It’s very simple – $12 [...]

As you may or may not know, I started a charity project this year called the 12for12k Challenge. At its simplest, it’s 12 charities throughout the 12 months of 2009, with the aim of raising $12,000 per charity. It’s a tall order, but one that can be achieved.
Yesterday, the 12for12k promo video was released. This is the result of a lot of hard work behind the scenes by Susan Murphy, Cheryl Gain and Kathryn Jennex of the 12for12k creative team. [...]

Image by william.n via Flickr

How well do you keep your personal and business life separate? Are you able to separate the two relatively easy, or do they crossover too much to have significantly different views? Or to put it another way, if you had a personal issue with someone could you still work with them professionally?
I ask this as a situation arose today where I had to question whether I was in the wrong, someone else was, or was there [...]

Now that the 12for12k Challenge has officially launched, it’s beginning to catch the imagination of the media.
The challenge has already been featured in the Mississauga News in the Greater Toronto Area, and the press release is being picked up by various online media outlets.
On top of that, I will be interviewed on Toronto news station CityNews by CityNews reporter Kris Reyes. The interview will take place on the morning of Thursday 8th January, with probable airing time that same evening.
Today [...]