Placerville Real Estate Blog

Well, my Hunger Blogathon 2006 Fever is growing to a fever pitch. Lucky for me I skipped the flu shot this year.

The PDF fliers and a few paper copies are ready, and I’m off to one of the local MLS tours tomorrow to see what sorts of pledges I can draw. Meantime my invitation to the Invited Famous People is all set up in email, just waiting for me to say something intelligent. The blogathon starts the day after tomorrow, and I have to get my daughter Helen some help so she can pitch in and participate, and I have to put my thinking cap on, because Bridget (also known as “Lucky Bridget”) is in Disneyland for a few days getting a well earned rest. So she may not weigh in until she returns, but then may be able to regale us with her Matterhorn adventures.

What it’s about:

The Blogathon is a benefit for the El Dorado County and Amador County food banks. That’s our local focus area for this blog, and it’s also where our intrepid band of blogger participants all live. 100% of your pledges will be donated to these two food banks, on a 50/50 basis.

How to Pledge:

We’ve tried to make pledging pretty easy to do, at the risk of constantly saying “Operators are Standing By.”

You can call (877) 735-5657 and either talk to me or Bridget or leave a voice mail, or you can fax us the Pledge Flier (PDF). Sorry there’s no online form for it yet — I should try to get one together in time for next year’s Blogathon.

So I hope that many people locally and in the blogging community will participate. So far the flier’s assumption is that you can only sponsor the local blogging team, but as an incentive for the wider community of bloggers who wishes to participate, let’s do the following:

• To the $200 that is earmarked already in matching funds, I will add $10.00 in matching funds for each blogger from another blog who participates either by an external link or by an in-line comment on the “Famous People Weigh In” (or any other post), up to an additional $100.
• Though unfortunately we can only offer good links and not prize money for the following portion, we’ll announce winners in the following categories:
• Most people invited to participate by a non-sponsored blogger.
• Best suggestion for making the blogathon better either this year or in the future.
• Funniest related post.
• Most heartwarming / sincere related post.Winners in the above category will be announced here and on my two other blogs.

Well, that’s all I have for now, but hopefully that piques some small amount of interest.

Yes, on some level this blogathon helps us to kick-start the visibility of a new blog, but it’s also for a worthy cause, so I hope it we’re at least able to raise a modest amount of funds and have a little fun doing so. In any case it’s a decent first attempt, and perhaps next year we can do even better if it works out.