[Foundation-l] funraising thru celebrity endorsements?

[Arthur Richards]

You can see the banner here (make sure your volume is up):

http://www.trevorparscal.com/stuff/thehawk/

I dunno if anyone listened to NPR's latest fundraiser but they had some 
/awesome/ appeals by Alec Baldwin - you can listen to them here:

http://www.kplu.org/alec-baldwin

I found them really compelling and think if we could get some celeb to 
endorse us, it could have a lot of potential - and might be entertaining 
enough to take people's minds off of how annoyed they are about seeing 
Jimmy everywhere they look.

On 11/23/2010 10:42 AM, Russell Nelson wrote:
> We were chattering about having Stephen Hawking do a funraising banner
> (Trevor made up one), and speculating how well they'd do. You could even
> serve up diffferent banners based on the categories. If it's a page about
> physics, serve up the Hawk banner. If science fiction, Charles Stross or
> whomever else. If they visit the Angelina Jolie page, they get to see the
> Angelina Jolie banner. Who knows?? Maybe we could make it COOL to have a
> Wikipedia fundraising banner, just like it was COOL to be a guest on the
> Muppet Show, or it's COOL to have your own animated character on The
> Simpsons.  I'm thinking that a short video clip like "I'm Freeman Dyson and
> I want you to support wikipedia.".
>
> Seems like something that could easily be tested.
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