Thank you all again for helping to raise over €4,000 for barnardos is such a short amount of time.
The breakdown is follows:

• €2,650 from our corporate sponsors
• €900 from raffle and money raised on the night itself
• €355 online ticket sales & online donations
• €133 from donations from mycharity.ie

Emma Walsh won the write a funny review of Krystle competition. You can see her review here you also read other review here . So our congrats go to Emma who now owns a mega budda ! & big thank you to Truvo for sponsoring the competition.

We’d all like thank you for making the Dublin Twestival a great success, on the night itself, nearly €900 was raised, and this doesn’t include ticket sales, donations or sponorship, this was just raised on raffle ticket sales and money raised on the night!

We are waiting to receive all the donations before annoucing the final figure, we should have this in the next few days. In the meantime check out some of the photos taken from the night!

You can see more taken by Hilari here, and by Sylvie here.

We’d especially like to thank:  Karl Spain, Brian Greene, DJ Wozzy, Dj Spider Liz & Laura and the bucket shakers from Barnardos, you rock !

• €10 per month could buy educational toys for our toy libraries;
• €21 per month could buy essential material for our Children’s Book Clubs;
• €44 per month could provide regular bereavement counselling for a child;
• €50 per month could provide ongoing breakfast support in one of our breakfast clubs.

Dublin twestival is only a few hours away, and we are all ready to make this a great event. Again a big thank you to everyone for contributing and helping to raise the profile of the event & most impotantly donating money & buying tickets for the event.

Online ticket sales are now close, there will, however, be a number of limited tickets available at the door, but please get there early to make sure you can get in.

We all look forward to  seeing you all!

After a flurry of tweets back on forth from Siobhan Cully of Marketing Elves, a plan had been hatched that would prove to be very interesting indeed for this DubTwestival and its charity Barnardo’s…

Siobhan Cully of Marketing Elves, and also a serial entrepreneur from what I can gather, had come up with a fantastic plan to help the Twitter Festival fund raising initiative.

After seeing Clare Boyles appeal on twitter for her lost dog, which resulted  in Rover being found after two days,  Siobhan thought that this might happening might just be re-engineered to help benefit in fundraising. So, with the vigour of a well thought out McGuyver plan, Siobhan went about setting up a collection system via mycharity.ie and began her twitter bound fundraising campaign.

Within the first 30 mins Siobhan had collected over €30 from donations from one round of tweets. Since then donations have been flowing through at a steady pace.

While working on this event, there has been a fantastic amount of help from the tweeting population of Ireland. Plans such as Siobhan’s have been very beneficial to this year’s event and it has been equally as interesting to see people come up with their own way of fundraising in advance of the event.

Thank you Siobhan and everyone else that has been in touch in the past weeks, and please make yourselves know tonight for your round of applause!

Have a look at what Marketing Elves have done here, and while you are there, make sure the system is working, and donate lots of money to Barnardos!

Marketing Elves – the background

Marketing Elves provides companies with that extra pair of hands to get the job done. Whether it’s a short term project, a specific marketing campaign, an evaluation of a product, service, process or customer experience, Marketing Elves specialises in injecting a fresh approach to solving marketing problems

Please note: the name of Clare Boyle’s dog, was changed for this article to protect its identity.

A big shout out for our DJ’s for the night :

7-9pm Dj Spider @discoroyale : http://www.discoroyale.net/

9pm-11pm DJ Wozzy
: http://www.funkypolitics.com/

11pm-2am @BrianGreene
: http://disco.ie

This prize is huge !!!

We at dublin twestival have decided to create a competition with the generous help of Truvo and Budda bag. Truvo have paid for the budda bag, the money going directly to Barnardos.

The Budda bag itself is the mega budda bag, i.e. the biggest in the known universe see image, please note the picutre is not actual size and the sexy model is not included !

How to win?

It’s simple: write a review of Krystle on Truvo’s website here. The most entertaining review wins the budda bag, easy.

How do we select the winner?

We don’t! You do !

Simply vote for the funniest or most enteraining review. The review with the most thumbs up wins the budda bag.

T&C’s

The competition is open now and will end on Wednesday 16th of September 2009 at 5pm, 7 days from now. In the event of tie, a twestival coin will be tossed and first to notch up 3 coins tosses victories wins(best of 5).   The winner will be annouced on the blog here and the dublin twestival twitter account:

The link to post your review to again is: http://www.truvo.ie/places/krystle-dublin

If you’re stuck for inspiration check the first review here http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Mens-Three-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A .

We’re delighted to be able to raffle such an exclusive once protrait of Damien Dempsey, this prize was kindly donated by Richard Gilligan Photography. This protrait is 12×18”. This is valued at €300.

Thanks again to forbidden planet for this one, we have an amazing halo 3 figure to raffle off; standing up at about 8 inches, this is a very high quality model and is primed and ready to go into battle against your collection of wolverine and spiderman figures.

I think you’ll agree that this is very collectable and worth €80.