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The AllThingsD.com Staff Begs for DonorsChoose.org!

Kara Swisher in News on October 30, 2008 at 5:37 pm PT

Only 24 hours to go in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008 and I am now forced to bring in the big guns. That would be the angrily arched eyebrows of Digital Daily’s John “Patches” Paczkowski, along some of the AllThingsD.com staff, begging mightily for your donations. Uh-oh!

Ay Chihuahua! A DonorsChoose.org Threat From My Kids!

Kara Swisher in News on October 15, 2008 at 3:27 am PT

Did I say that there was no limit to my pandering in order to raise the most money of all in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008! I did, indeed! Thus, this week, the Swisher boys make their annual appearance to deliver a pitch about why you should give early and often to fund technology projects for high school students. Well, more a threat than the soft sell actually, since they just saw the new Disney film, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and are clearly hopped up on tiny dog power.

A DonorsChoose High School Musical: A Very Awkward Dance for the Kids!

Kara Swisher in News on October 7, 2008 at 7:38 am PT

It’s been just a week, and BoomTown is rocking out in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008, with almost $4,000 raised! It started a week ago, with us featuring a video from my hell-froze-over dinner with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who ably endured a meal with me in support of the many school children who benefit from the unique charity. Now, I manage to get Yang in a dress and dancing in “High School Musical” to raise even more money–yipes!–but it’s for the kids!

A DonorsChoose.org Miracle: My Dinner With Jerry (and BoomTown Plans to Vanquish the Naked Scoble!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2008 at 6:35 am PT

If it’s Oct. 1, it must be time for the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008! DonorsChoose.org funds classroom projects in high-need public schools, using the Web to match teacher project requests with donors. Last year, BoomTown did pretty well, raising $12,199 from 52 donors, impacting 1,940 students and almost scoring the grand prize of a lunch with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. Well, I finally managed to get a dinner with him, as you can see in the video after the jump. But now I face a more daunting task–besting the naked Scoble!

Parenting 101 (a.k.a. The Chapter on How Not To)

Kara Swisher in News on December 31, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Over the next week, I will be posting the most popular videos on BoomTown from 2007. Here’s one of the two videos I did in which I egregiously used my two young sons to try to 1) raise money for underprivileged kids via DonorsChoose.org and 2) get a lunch date with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, [...]

Jerry's Lunch Partners: BoomTown Not Invited

Kara Swisher in News on November 6, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Big prolonged sigh. We tried but failed to capture the coveted lunch with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, which was part of the October Tech Blogger Challenge for DonorsChoose.org. Major lunchroom snub!

Day 99: The (Swisher) Boys Are Back and There's Going to Be Trouble–If Mom Doesn't Get Lunch With Jerry Yang

Kara Swisher in News on October 24, 2007 at 1:08 am PT

Can you believe it? DAY 99! Yes, this is the day before the last full day of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s 100-day No-Sacred-Cows Vision Quest, which BoomTown has been keeping relentless track of, ever since he told investors in the summer that he was undertaking a top-to-bottom look at his troubled company and that all holy bovines had better watch out. So far though, in terms of truly dramatic change, it’s Cows: 99, Yang: 0.

Dinner and Chatting with Rupe (aka BoomTown's New Boss)

Kara Swisher in News on October 18, 2007 at 9:57 am PT

Did I wangle a seat right next to soon-to-be Dow Jones owner Rupert Murdoch last night at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner? Of course I did, continuing in the shameless BoomTown tradition of trying to get gratis meals with moguls (like our ongoing efforts to raise money for DonorsChoose.org and get a free lunch with [...]

Jerry Coming Out at CES! (Not That There's Anything Wrong With That!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 17, 2007 at 12:19 am PT

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang emerged from his hibernation den over at Yahoo yesterday and didn’t see his shadow. So do better-than-expected revenues mean spring is on the way for the struggling Web giant? We’ll see, but it means we might see a lot more of the shy-of-late Yang, who accepted a big keynote slot at [...]

DonorsChoose.org: Click Here and Here and Here and Here!

Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

OK, we’re going to cut to the chase. Give here to DonorsChoose.org. We’re now at $12,056 with 44 donors and solidly in the No. 2 slot, with VC Fred Wilson still king of our little tech charity mountain. Let’s knock him off! So go now and click on through to our AllThingsD page on DonorsChoose.org [...]

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