Growing Up on Twitter

Posted by Gabe on July 11, 2009 under Kids are Heroes, Social Media, Twitter | 4 Comments to Read

By now most of you know that after more than a year of promoting the Kids Are Heroes brand, and on the heels of the Richard Branson PitchTV win, we are now forming a company.  My last post holds a great discussion on how a company such as ours should be formed, and we learned much from all the spirited and educated comments.  I could never imagine not having a non-profit side of Kids Are Heroes, but let me just say that this will not be your father’s non-profit organization.

I really feel that we are growing up on Twitter.  Before we started tweeting we had a fair amount of local support in both the media and the community.  But I must say the awareness and encouragement has skyrocketed due to our Twitter involvement.  We never would have found out about the PitchTV contest, let alone have won it outright had we not had so many Twitter supporters.  So once again, for that we thank you all.

We have now opened a “store” on our web site.  It has nothing to sell, but we are hoping that you will help us by telling us the products you want to see.  @BTalisman has suggested we sell several products that are green in makeup.  I think this is a must for us, because as we represent the kids on our web site I am sure they would not have it any other way.  We are so appreciative of all the savvy advice and generous support we have been given by our Twitter colleagues.  The connections we have made will serve to help our company grow and we hope to be able to make this effort be as beneficial as possible to everyone that works with us.

So a special thanks goes out to @johnhaydon, @mickeygomez, @joewaters and our new friends at @rhythmseed for giving us great insight, as well as all the others that commented on our last post.  We also thank all of you who have supported us to date.  I see a very bright future for Kids Are Heroes and please remember that we will always be focused on our main objective, which is to inspire (and help) more kids to get involved and to take on philanthropy as a normal way of life at a young age.