My good friend Carol Schillios is living on a roof for as long as it takes to raise $1 million to support women and their families in developing countries.
If we work together, each using our own voice and personal network, we can help get her off the roof in a jiffy, before she catches a deatha-cold.
Here’s an idea to help:
We each donate a dollar (or more), and perform a small act of kindness.
Tweet or update your Facebook status with your one small act, along with this link to Carol’s site http://bit.ly/qQaec and the hashtag #imupontheroof.For example: “Complimented a stranger on the subway. http://bit.ly/qQaec #imupontheroof”
Bonus: Change your Twitter location to “Up on the roof with Carol.”
The hashtag #imupontheroof is a nice way for us all to remind Carol that, although not physically, we are up there with her in thought and spirit. It’ll also help us keep up as more people tell their stories. (Click here if you’re wondering “what the heck is a hashtag?”)
Finally, encourage everyone you can to do the same by emailing, tweeting, blogging, Facebook(ing), and on and on.
Most of us are unbelievably connected and use that power to share opinions, jokes, goofy youtube videos (here’s a good one), and so on. This is an opportunity to use it for something much bigger.
This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from me for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month period. Total physical drawing time is close to 40 hours and I’d add an equal amount of time for concept time and readying the print. A screenshot was taken every 5 seconds, which actually results in a full 18 minute video. I’ll upload that for posterity later.
Incredible. Check out more of Chad Pugh’s work at thebigpugh.com.
Here’s a metric I can get behind: this slide clearly tracks the growth of SkinnyCorp over the last 7 years as they moved the needle from sorta awesome to crazy awesome.
He also makes sure to address the ROI-monkeys who only think in decimals and dollar signs:
If you think they were just the feelgood entertaining crazy kids with the tats and the rock and roll, they were probably the only presenters whose businesses are self-funded and doing upwards of $20 million a year in revenue.
