[Cash-and-caring] Welcom and Washington Seminar

[Ramona Walhof]

            As you can see Dave Andrews did, indeed, get us a list.  It is a 
private list, so we should be able to discuss what we want to without much 
interference until we are ready to go beyond this group.

I have talked withConchita about doing a quizz on Facebook for Washington 
Seminar.  The idea would be to announce an online quizz at that time.  We 
would have ten or twenty questions about the NFB and blindness.  It would 
cost people five dollars to enter.  Everyone who enters would be designated 
a friend of the NFB.  Further those who get all the questions right  would 
be placed in a drawing.  We would give at least one prize, say one hundred 
dollars, unless somebody can get a great gift certificate donated.  Only 
those who get all the answers correct would be entered in the drawing.  We 
could decide whether all the answers could be found on the NFB Web Site or 
not.

Committee members, does this strike you as a good idea.  Do you have 
comments or suggestions for making it better?

Have any of you thought up another fundraising event that could be done or 
kicked off at Washington?

Conchita says she can do the Facebook work.  There would be a link to a 
blogspot for the quizz.  Payment would be through paypal.  We would need to 
read the entries.  We could keep it going for a week, two weeks or something 
else.

Mark, does this fit with the uses you seek on Facebook?  Do we have a Paypal 
account that we could use or should we get our own?  Should we be checking 
with Brigid   or Charlie about any of this?   Conchita says we should just 
put it on the NFB Facebook page, something I have never used.

How many people on this committee are on Facebook?
We don't know how many people would pay to participate in a quizz or 
drawing, but we would learn some things.  If it works even some, we should 
be able to improve it.

I am looking forward to your reactions.

Ramona