Changes to The Acer Guy
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on August 18th, 2009
Tagged as: Projects, Social Media
I’m writing this post in a kinda-unofficial way right now. Think of it as an electronic sounding board amongst friends.
I’ll get straight to the point: The Acer Education Technology Initiative got me thinking about ways of using social media for worthy causes and I’d like to make a few changes on the direction TAG is heading.
There are two fundamental changes I’m going to introduce.
1) Having Acer recognize TAG as a authoritative resource for its product reviews. This will allow me to get far more people and enthusiasts from the “Acer community” involved in reviewing upcoming and new models directly.
2) Use the traction TAG has earned to adopt “causes”. Basically ask the community to Chip In (that’s the name of the widget) and fund the purchase of new or refurbished Acer PCs through a specific PayPal account that will then be sent to designated schools/charities in some of the world’s poorest areas. Naturally all this is done with maximum transparency and, at least to start with through reputable non-profit organizations like this.
This second initiative might not start there though, as I recently received a wonderful letter from the Operations Manager from the Earthrace initiative asking whether Acer would be interested in sponsoring her with a new computer (her four-year-old TravelMate 8100 is running out of puff). I’ve forwarded it on to the worldwide marcoms manager asking for help and there’s a slim chance he might even agree but if not Earthrace will be the first TAG “cause”…
Like I said I’m still working on the details of how this is going to play out but any suggestions you might have at this point would be very welcome indeed.
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