For all my social networking guru friends, please please please check out the Lose-A-Palooza website to find out how you can use your social media savviness to raise money for food banks via Weight Watcher's Lose for Good program.
No money required, just a computer and the willingness to click your mouse a few times.
For every accepted mention or acknowledgment of “Lose For Good” made on September 15 via blogs, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, Weight Watchers will make an additional donation - up to $25,000* - for just one day of social media activity. This donation is on top of the $1 million** Weight Watchers is hoping to donate to Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger as part of the 2009 Lose For Good campaign!
Here's how it works (I copied and pasted the info from their website):
ON FACEBOOK
• Become a fan of the NEW and official Weight Watchers page! And don’t forget our Weight Watchers Supermarket Foods page.
• If you’re already a fan, just post a “Lose For Good” related comment OR “Like” the updates that we'll post throughout the day.
• Become a fan of our awesome charitable partners – Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger!
• It’s that easy. Join fan pages, comment on our statuses and walls, or simply ‘Like’ updates to our fan pages and you’ll be participating in Lose-a-Palooza and helping fight hunger!
ON MYSPACE:
• Participate on the selected pages by posting a comment including “Lose For Good” or become our ‘friend.’ Simple ways to help Weight Watchers contribute $1!*
ON TWITTER:
• Tweet #LoseForGood: Share how you are supporting the good with all your Twitter followers. Tweet about the way you’re helping the fight against hunger and be sure to include #LoseForGood.
• Multiply the good: Follow @sharestrength or @acfusa to fill your Twitter stream with good, and then retweet.
• That’s right, each #LoseForGood Tweet and follow to @sharestrength and @acfusa on September 15 provides $1!*
VIA BLOGS:
• Write a blog post about Lose For Good, including the phrase “Lose For Good” and encourage your readers to get involved by visiting www.LoseForGood.com.• Comment on a blog post about Lose For Good! Be sure to have your friends show their support by commenting on your post – every comment relating to “Lose For Good” helps Weight Watchers donate $1*!
• In our new Weight Watchers Community, write a blog post about Lose for Good and we’ll make a contribution to the fight against hunger. Remember to use the words “Lose for Good!”
Soooo.... start by commenting on my blog :) and then hit up the social media sites. It's all for a great cause and I appreciate your support!
