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#61 AgeVivo

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Posted 04 December 2009 - 10:02 PM

I'm afraid this thread is insufficiently visible to have some chance to win

How are we positionned compared to the top 10? I retain from the previous competitions that a good factor to win is to start fast and strong: having an impressive start limits the number of serious competitors and motivates more persons on our side: it is a question of perception of the chances to win. So the faster at the beginning the better; one trick is to prepare only such competitions when we are aware of them a priori before other competitors. Of course it is much easier said than done :p

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Posted 04 December 2009 - 11:02 PM

How are we positionned compared to the top 10?

There's no official leader board. However, based on what I've seen so far, at least 2k votes will likely be needed to win for each charity.

I retain from the previous competitions that a good factor to win is to start fast and strong: having an impressive start limits the number of serious competitors and motivates more persons on our side: it is a question of perception of the chances to win. So the faster at the beginning the better; one trick is to prepare only such competitions when we are aware of them a priori before other competitors. Of course it is much easier said than done :p

We'll have to make the best of a bad situation.

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Posted 04 December 2009 - 11:09 PM

We will be the come-from-behind underdog story of this contest!!

Also, if you are copying and pasting any of the sample text I have posted here in the discussion forum, please make sure to get the correct urls into any emails you send out. Our forum software truncates the long urls - so copying and pasting can result in a non-functioning link.

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Posted 04 December 2009 - 11:10 PM

How many votes do we have?

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Posted 04 December 2009 - 11:22 PM

How many votes do we have?


113 votes at the moment.

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Posted 05 December 2009 - 01:15 AM

Devon, here is a text you can send to the other 19 charities. Everyone please look it over for any spelling mistakes or other changes that need to be made. Devon, you can start sending it out tonight or tomorrow.

Dear (“group name”):

I would like to inform you of an exciting opportunity to earn grant money for your organization and other charities working to end the suffering of age-related disease. It is the Chase Community Giving contest - a social networking grant contest where 100 charities will take home a grant of $25,000. Read more here: http://apps.facebook...ommunitygiving/

We at Imminst.org looked through the list of charities to support (each person gets 20 votes) and found your organization to be one of stellar dedication and accomplishment. That is why we are encouraging our 5,000+ members to vote for (“group name”) and 19 other worthy charities. Read more here: http://www.imminst.o...ommunity-giving

In order to enhance our collective influence we are asking that each organization post information about the contest on their official website or Facebook page and message their membership. If it is too much trouble to update web pages then perhaps just post a link to: http://www.imminst.o...ommunity-giving where the entire list is organized and links to each Chase page where votes are cast.

This is an exciting opportunity. Don’t delay – the deadline is December 11th.

Sincerely, Devon Fowler
Director of Outreach

P.S. I am sending a second email with an attachment that has the list of charities coded in html and ready for posting on your website. Check your spam folder in case it is automatically filtered. Feel free to change the order of the list in order to more prominently display your charity.


Mind I sent you a pm that I completed the contact list for the 19 charities in google docs...I gave you the link and said some more stuff...

I will send out the message you wrote later tomorrow as I'm working on a film gig, finally after so long feeling like poo...

This contest is very exciting and it brings me goose bumps to think that there are so many non-profit charities geared towards stem cell and rejuvenation medicines! Also quite a number of Parkinson's ones.

See, if the VIP team could get a spokes celeb like Parkinson's did with Michael J. Fox we would literally create at least another 20 life extension anti aging sites! Not to mention publicity, publicity, publicity.

Edited by dfowler, 05 December 2009 - 01:16 AM.


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Posted 05 December 2009 - 01:35 AM

Ive got some kind of circuit melt down in my facebook continuing to give me endless loops. Luckily Fowler here, who I just chatted with in skype, wants to also take on the role of contacting causes, so he is going to do that tomorrow. In the mean time now, I can get back to contacting 500 people one by one to vote. Ive got 75 down so far, and we are still taking pledges.

Remember all, we are still looking for a twitter volunteer, and... I think there are a few others too but I forget at the moment.

And also remember, you can never be to busy to help not die.

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Posted 05 December 2009 - 03:08 AM

Have the Facebook cause and group creators been contacted yet?

#69 Mind

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 01:12 AM

I sent a message to:

Advancing Humanity With Technology
ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA TRANSUMANISTI
Immortality
World Transhumanist Association
Transhumanist Student Network (TSN)
Transhumanists

Then I had to stop because Facebook thought I was spamming and I didn't want to get my account suspended like Aubrey. Will try the rest tomorrow, unless someone else can take up the slack tonight (please!)

#70 brokenportal

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 02:23 AM

I contacted about 150 more people today. Im going to continue working on special cases as I go too. When I see people with a blog, or whatever, I give them special info, your raw links page, etc... A few more people have joined us. Keep up the good fight. We are on our way.

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 03:52 AM

Sorry have had lots on my plate, with this film thing. If someone could tell me what to say, to the creators, administrators, or whoever, I can start sending emails to various causes...but what's the best way to search for causes?

Mind did you get that list I sent you on google docs?

I'm working on informing the 19 causes with Mind's blurb presently.

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 06:13 AM

Ok about halfway there informing the causes. I'm assuming, Mind, you didn't do this yourself when I gave you the google doc link. Anyway I decided to attach the html addresses to the same email I've been sending.

Unfortunately, two of the causes so far had no contact info, The American Aging Association, and the Sabrina Cohen foundation, Parkinson's Disease Research Society, and Stem Cell Cancer and Rej Medicine Research. The addresses are in the google doc.

If anyone wants to help find the contact info, (if any exists), for these two orgs that would be appreciated.

Edited by dfowler, 06 December 2009 - 06:37 AM.


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Posted 06 December 2009 - 06:38 AM

So those four sites listed above I couldn't find contact info for...so strange that their sites wouldn't have that! But I've contacted the other 15 orgs.

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 06:43 AM

Unfortunately, two of the causes so far had no contact info, The American Aging Association, and the Sabrina Cohen foundation, Parkinson's Disease Research Society, and Stem Cell Cancer and Rej Medicine Research. The addresses are in the google doc.

If anyone wants to help find the contact info, (if any exists), for these two orgs that would be appreciated.

To get contact info for those orgs, click on the links below.

Edited by Florin Clapa, 06 December 2009 - 07:00 AM.


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Posted 06 December 2009 - 07:51 AM

Unfortunately, two of the causes so far had no contact info, The American Aging Association, and the Sabrina Cohen foundation, Parkinson's Disease Research Society, and Stem Cell Cancer and Rej Medicine Research. The addresses are in the google doc.

If anyone wants to help find the contact info, (if any exists), for these two orgs that would be appreciated.

To get contact info for those orgs, click on the links below.

Ah, thanks Florin...I missed the first two but the third Parkinsons doesn't allow you to email them the info back...if you can find a way then perhaps you can tell me?

thanks!

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 07:55 AM

Ok did the first two out of the four, American Aging and Sabrina Cohen, and the other two I'll do tomorrow when I can phone and snail mail them.

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 08:25 AM

Here's an updated list of some our competition:

Edited by Florin Clapa, 06 December 2009 - 08:32 AM.


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Posted 06 December 2009 - 05:05 PM

I just got this email from Dave Goebel from Methuselah Foundation

"Hi Devon - I am going to try to contact the company that is running this program for Chase first thing tomorrow to see if they will give an indication of the numbers for the lower tier standing so we can see if this is truly practical. The Chase Facebook app has driven over 800,000 signups, and thus I sense that there is a real possibility that without further intel, we may be chasing an invisible rabbit. I DO appreciate your efforts in this regard and hope that we find out that it can be "Chased" successfully.

Thanks,
Dave"

by the way if I had my way all the charities would focus on curing diseases...good to see pancreatic cancer up there, bet Swayze had some clout with that.

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 07:45 PM

There seems to be some sort of communication breakdown regarding voting. Imminst and the MF are almost the only charities that are getting votes; the rest are stagnating. Perhaps, the two sections of the list should be combined to avoid any confusion and emphasize that people should vote for ALL of the listed charities.

Edited by Florin Clapa, 06 December 2009 - 07:45 PM.


#80 Mind

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Posted 06 December 2009 - 11:23 PM

I sent a message to the other facebook causes:

NETWORK TRANSUMANISTI ITALIANI Italian Transhumanists Network
Transhumanism
Life Extension
The Campaign for Aging Research (C.A.R)
CURE AGING- HUMANS CAN LIVE 1000 YEARS

I sent a message to 4,800 Imminst members/users, to 9 of the charities in our list of 20. Devon contacted most of the rest and we probably doubled up on some. I sent messages to 11 facebook causes each with 500 to 1000 members. BP alone has probably contacted a few hundred people. The message has easily reached 10,000 people, but we will have to wait and see what the return rate is on Monday when/if the causes and charities send out emails. If the message has hit 10,000 people, then we have approximately a 2% vote rate, which is hard to explain considering how passionate people claim they are about ending aging and striving for human enhancement. If only half of the Imminst members who got the message had voted, we might already be safely in the running.

So far, 1 of the causes has sent out a mass message - Yay for Joseph Henry and the Immortality cause page!

For the other 10, if they don't send out a message on Monday AND they don't reject us, then we should hit them up again on Tuesday.

Also, I think facebook is the best place to recruit since it is easier for facebook members to vote - just 2 clicks of the mouse. I suggest we search for more cause pages. Anything with 100 or more members would be worthwhile. Maybe there are Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Parkinson's cause pages. We need search out causes that share our enthusiasm. BP, Florin, Devon, Vgamer, Rwac, etc... if you could find a few more causes that will be great. I'll look around tomorrow as well.

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Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:06 AM

Here's a list of Facebook causes that have over 100 members:
Here's a list of Facebook groups that have over 100 members:

Edited by Florin Clapa, 07 December 2009 - 03:07 AM.


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Posted 07 December 2009 - 07:05 AM

I was looking for a list like that. Thanks, Ill use that, and or see if anybody else besides Devon wants to work with it too.

Also, to keep tabs, exapted has contacted most of the blogs at accelerating future, and a few others, Kurzweilai, mind-x forums and others.

Im up to 300 in my pledge of 500 now and still recruiting for pledges.

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Posted 07 December 2009 - 07:50 AM

I was chatting a bit with Chung, and it just occured to me, dont we have some lists of contacts from other folding recruit outreaches around some place that we could maybe contact about this contest? Those guys are all in to supporting science research.

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Posted 07 December 2009 - 09:24 PM

Here's an updated list of some our competition with over 900 votes:

Edited by Florin Clapa, 07 December 2009 - 09:36 PM.


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Posted 08 December 2009 - 12:17 AM

I sent messages to most of the 2nd list that Florin outlined. Still only one group has sent a message out. We are climbing slowly, gaining traction, but we could use a few more ideas.

The Imminst December newsletter will go out tomorrow. I have highlighted the contest in the Newsletter. I was thinking about sending out a mass PM as well, but that might get to be annoying (3 mass messages in one week) - what do you guys think?

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 01:45 AM

Since The NETWORK TRANSUMANISTI ITALIANI's mass email doesn't contain any links, I doubt we'll get a big boost from them.

If the newsletter doesn't have a significant affect on the number of votes, only then would I suggest another mass email.

I'd advise contacting Aubrey and the other causes and groups again. I don't see any other way to win without their help.

We'll need at least 1k votes to win. To be on the safe side, I'd prefer at least 2k.

Edited by Florin Clapa, 08 December 2009 - 01:46 AM.


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Posted 08 December 2009 - 07:13 PM

Need to correct my previous statement. TWO groups had helped us out earlier, Bruno's Italian group and Joseph's life extension group. Thanks so much!

Today, the "I want to live forever group" and the "Anti-Aging Movement" sent out messages to their members. Please thank them if you have the time.

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Posted 08 December 2009 - 08:28 PM

It seems that the MF has the best chance to win. If they can keep up their momentum of several hundred votes per day (!), they'll easily win this contest. I wonder what strategy the MF is using to get so many votes with just a Wall post and no mass email. One Facebook user commented that the MF is paying some Facebook users to vote for it. I'm not sure if this is the case, but considering that they're not doing too much to promote this contest, that explanation isn't inconsistent with the amount of votes they're getting.

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Posted 09 December 2009 - 06:42 AM

Here's an updated list of some our competition with over 900 votes:

Edited by Florin Clapa, 09 December 2009 - 07:30 AM.


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Posted 09 December 2009 - 09:20 PM

I'll send out a mass PM tonight. It will be the last mass message to members about this contest. We will have to work the facebook angle tomorrow and Friday.




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