March 31st and April 19th are both quickly approaching. And they are both CDH awareness day. We have two because we have more then one national support organization. This is important to you because I'm going to teach you to use Twitter.
Twitter works by connecting people who update their 140 character status about whatever is on their mind. Their updates are tracked and when enough people start talking about something, it becomes a "Trend". Trends are followed by all major news outlets, celebrities, and thousands of average people just like me and you. Major editorial decisions about what the world wide media will report that evening are often based off of trends. It takes about 100,000 mentions to start a trend, depending on what is major news that day.
My vision is that #cdhbabies will become a top US 10 trend on March 31st and the top international trend of April 19th. I am asking you to help by committing to post #cdhbabies on your twitter account at least once an hour throughout the day on March 31st. We need 10,000 twitter accounts to do this for 12 hours to set a trend. Obviously, posting more often will help. Reposting this blog or your own version of it is going to be key to pulling this off. preserving the hashmark: #cdhbabies is essential to making this work. And having a Twitter account.
See ideas listed below.
"personal statement"+"website or call to action"+"#cdhbabies"=Successful Twitter post
Examples:
"I love my survivor. See what you can do to help cdhsupport.com #cdhbabies"
"800 babies are lost each year. Help stop CDH by reposting #cdhbabies"
"My daughter is a CDH angel. Learn more about CDH http://www.breathofhopeinc.com/ #cdhbabies"
