The Twitter Earthquake Action Campaign

Greater Good United Began Officially on 3/31/09

How You Can Help!
There is a big difference between people knowing about the earthquake disaster in L'Aquila and doing something about this crisis. We are asking readers to join our efforts at getting people to move from awareness to action! All it takes is a few minutes a day. If everyone does a little, we can do a lot, a whole lot!

We need your help to create a call to action buzz on Twitter. All you need to do is to direct people to this blog; or, direct them to any other effective information source that you think could motivate a call to action. You can even create your own call to action blog if you like. Those short on time have our permission to copy and paste this blog and pass it along via E-mail or through any network of their choice.

H0w you can help on Twitter
1. Write updates to the community letting them know that The American Red Cross and The Italian Red Cross are accepting donations for earthquake victims. Some people do not follow mainstream media and may not know specifically how they can help. MAKE SURE TO USE THE WORD EARTHQUAKE IN YOUR UPDATE TO ATTRACT INTERESTED PEOPLE.
2. Do a search on the term "Earthquake". You can then contact posters as follows: R @theirusername (send them your message). You can ask them how they are helping or whatever you think is appropriate. Make sure to leave a space between their user name and your message.
3. Help spread the message that there will be a Twitter Community Prayer on Sunday @ 3:00 P.M. EST. That is, if you wish to promote prayer as well as action.
4. Send individual messages to your followers. If you approve of this blog, and wish to spread the word about this effort, you can give them the address of this blog: greatergoodunited.blogspot.com.
5. Share your ideas with us!!! You may have a strategy that we could implement!

Possible Messages To Post:
"Hey Joe, please pass along the word that The American Red Cross is accepting donations for earthquake victims in Italy. Thanks!" (Joe may know this, but your message may prompt a response to make a donation". Then a chain reaction can lead others to do the same).

"Hey Joe, do you have any ideas about what we can do for the earthquake victims in Italy"? This might lead to a productive exchange of ideas as you build rapport. In addition to opening doors to prompt Joe to spread the word or donate, the two of you may come up with your own strategies about how to support the victims of this earthquake.

"Hey Joe, check out the Emergency Earthquake Blog: greatergoodunited.blogspot.com". (Do this only if you like what we are doing and want to specifically support our efforts with this blog).

"Hey Joe, join the Twitter community prayer for earthquake victims in Italy this Sunday at 3:00 P.M. EST." (This can really help us get the call to action buzz going on Twitter as well).

Here is a link that we found very useful which may wish to pass along as well.
http://www.lifeinabruzzo.com/donate-help-laquila-earthquake-victims/

Donate directly to The Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=3783933ea8c70210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD

Special Thanks To The Following Tweeters:
Sandrahopper, cityguyyoga, Journeycoach, celestestudio, MelodiCowan, bizzyfingers, ViriamKaur, TerriZSoloCEO, StefanDrums, Butterflymaven, Girlfriendly, idogood and Suecartwright.

How to contact us on Twitter: R @greatrgood (Then leave a space as shown and leave a message), or R @divinecontact (Then leave a space as shown and leave a message).

Three Last Words: THANKYOU, THANKYOU & THANKYOU!