In 2008, myself and a committee of friends planned from the ground up, the 4th Annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party which raised over $7,000 to a local organization here in Kansas City. One of the key takeaways from that experience was finding there’s a lot of people out there that sincerely want to do good in this world, they just don’t haven’t had the right opportunity to do it.

Enter, Twestival. In short, this event utilizes social media (Twitter) to empower an existing community to do good. It’s mission is to provide access to safe, clean drinking water to developing nations by drilling wells. The non-profit organization charity: water was clever enough to strike the attention of the Twitter community — there are over 100+ cities organizing individual events with all of them being 100% volunteer driven.

I decided, I wanted to give back — not just by attending the Kansas City gathering, but raising awareness by putting together a video blog. While I did not organize the event, I figured the least I could do was help promote it in any way that I could. What better than with a video blog!?! Note: I tried to get a little creative with this one and had a lot of fun shooting this. Let me know what you think! And more importantly, see you at Twestival! Details are at http://kansascity.twestival.com or http://www.charitywater.org/twestival.