We're experimenting with various forms of social media in an effort to raise the profile of The Great Solent Pedal and hopefully as a consequence, more donations to the cause.
One of these was Twitter, the social networking and micro blogging site. You can follow us here
We posted a few messages and as we started to get a small following, some very kind people starting sending out "Tweets" to their own followers pointing them to our site. This snowballs as more and more people then "Retweet" this on to their own followers, and so it goes on.
Yesterday evening Nikki Pilkington sent out a tweet to her followers for us and then wrote this fantastic article which asked people to donate just £2 (or more if they wished!) to us, in return for some Twitter publicity. Within 24 hours, around £400 was donated to the site, including celebrity comedian Alan Davies. Not only that but we have also been contacted by a celebrity photographer, offering to take some publicity shots for us!
Now of course I'd have to agree that The Great Solent Pedal is an unusual idea which seems to be catching people's imagination, but the power of Twitter has been amazing. Long may it continue, more followers please and keep those donations coming in!
Once again, you can donate via the event website here
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