Discovery Girl

Posted by Gabe on September 1, 2010 under Kids are Heroes | 5 Comments to Read

Social media is great but there is one piece of baggage that comes with it that is truly beginning to annoy me: Voting.  The Pepsi company recently made a decision to replace TV advertising with social media.  They have put together a very successful campaign where they give out many parcels of money to needy causes. The catch: people have to vote.  This is great for the companies because every time someone votes they have to do it on the company’s web site.  And people can’t just vote once either. They can vote every day for a month, usually.  Although this is a successful ploy for companies it’s really starting to get on my nerves as I am being asked left and right to vote for this and that.

Well guess what?  MaryMargaret, the founder of Kids Are Heroes, has entered a role model contest hosted by the Discovery Girls Magazine.  This is a very wholesome tween girl magazine that MaryMargaret has subscribed to for years.  She even found one of our heroes, Lexxi Saal through this publication.  From thousands of finalists MaryMargaret was chosen to be in the top 30.  That’s great but to win you have to be in the top 10.  How do you get there?  That’s right, by voting.  Starting September 1, people can vote once a day for their favorites.  The top ten winners will be flown to California for a photo shoot so that they will all be featured in an upcoming issue of the magazine.

So now I have the unenviable task of asking for your vote.  How can I do that when I know how annoying this whole process has become?  What does it matter to you if MaryMargaret is chosen as a role model for a magazine?  The answer is that a vote for MaryMargaret is a vote for Kids Are Heroes.  We have been trying to get press in an international publication and how perfect is this one?  The more kids and parents that read about us the more we can have an impact.  So I humbly ask that you vote, once daily, and also ask your contacts to vote as well.  I promise I will never ask you again. :)

HERE’S HOW TO VOTE: Go to THIS LINK, find MaryMargaret’s picture (it’s the one posted here) and click ‘Vote for MaryMargaret’.  You will need to register with them, but once you do that you should be able to vote each day without having to sign in.  We would SO APPRECIATE if you would take the time out each day to vote for her.  This could really help the KAH cause. THANK YOU!!!

And if you want a daily reminder sent to your email inbox, you can subscribe to a reminder list that will nudge you each morning only during the month of September.  Sign up at http://marymargaret.kidsareheroes.org