(tweet):contest

Twitter. It's something like a phenomenon. I like it.

I like it so much- I want to test the waters about holding a contest using it. (Humor me, please.)


Here's the details on how to win a $5 Starbucks gift card:


1) Follow @nickshoe on Twitter.
2) Simply tweet the following message:

Just entered to win a$5 Starbucks gift card. Just
follow @nickshoe and Retweet. details at: http://tinyurl.com/bnvkta

This contest is open to people anyone in North America. It is free to enter.
Winner will be announced on Twitter on Friday, February 27 at approximately 4 PM, Mountain.

~NjS

volunteering:defined

volunteer (vŏl'ən-tîr')
n.
1. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily
2. Botany: A cultivated plant growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.
adj.
1. Being, consisting of, or done by volunteers
2. Botany: Growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.
v.
volunteered, volunteering, volunteers
To give or offer to give voluntarily
1. To perform or offer to perform a service of one's own free will.
2. To do charitable or helpful work without pay
-dictionary.com

Now that we've gotten that out of the way.

Where is the logic in this?:

Take the time to find a great place for someone to volunteer their time (their most precious resource); one that they are excited about and that has them utilizing their natural talents and abilities;

And then ask them to do it once-in-a-while; to give their bare minimum- and then to remain excited about it.

Talk about a let down- and, by definition, a paradox.

"Well... they're not paid." Comes the retort.

How does that even find it's way into the conversation?!

Yes- volunteering is not a job. (Duh!) And the expectation isn't that one should treat it as such.

People will take pay for something they loathe. Very few will do that repugnant action for free. Volunteers want to be there. They love what they are doing.

Yes? No?

~NjS

ThePursuit.org: Video Announcements February 22, 2009

vision:defined

vi-sion [viz-shun]:
_noun
-the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
-the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
-an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency
-something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.
-a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.
-something seen; an object of sight.
-a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty
_verb (used with object)
-to envision

That's what dictionary.com says.

What do you say?

~NjS

One thing...

If there were one thing you could do today, what would it be? (regardless of circumstance- money, position, distance, et cetera)

Let me hear it...

~NjS