Christchurch’s own Tandem Voice Booth will be on the scene to cover Christchurch Twestival. Thanks to another Christchurch company taking the time to come out for a great cause.

Look for videos from the event on the Live Earth website sometime on Friday afternoon (New Zealand time)

Send your updates to the global Twestival site using Mobypictures.

1. Sign your mobile phone up at Mobypictures using your Twitter account details send an email to Mobypictures
2. If you are on an iPhone just download the iphone app
3. tag your emails from your phone with #twestivalchc

Easy! Now you are ready to send updates from Twestival via your phone.

Moby is the easiest way to share your adventures at Twestival this Thursday with your friends on your social sites!
And Moby is extremely easy to setup for Twitter users. You can signup from your mobile by just sending an email/mms with your first posting to:
[twitterusername.twitterpassword@mobypicture.com]

Read more about setting up your phone at Mobypictures

If you have an iPhone, why not setup the free iphone app

More info to follow on how you can tag your images and postings so that they are part of the Global Twestival at Mobypictures and Live Earth. That way anybody can login online to see your pictures and postings live!

Thanks to His Lordships for opening up their wonderful venue for Twestival Christchurch. With their support, Christchurch tweeps will get together on February 12 to raise money for charity: water.

With a 100$ bar tab from His Lordships, drinks will be half price for the evening until the tab runs out (or til it reaches 8)! this only applies to people with tickets, so buy yours now.

Why come out?

• Meet new people in the tech, design and software sectors
• Put a face to the avatars you’ve met on Twitter
• Raise money for a great cause
• Go into the draw for a certification course from Search Engine College
• Have your picture taken and broadcast through the live earth website

All donations to Christchurch Twestival go in the draw to win a Search Engine College Certification course.

Search Engine College (SEC) is an online training institution offering instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in Search Engine Optimization and other Search Engine Marketing subjects.

The courses are offered entirely online, to be taken at a student’s own pace, in a time-frame that suits them. You have the choice of taking a tutor-led Certification course, where a tutor is assigned to track your progress, grade your assignments, give you feedback and award formal certification should you qualify; or a self-study course, where all assignments and  activities are to be self-graded and no certification is awarded.

SEC courses are open to persons worldwide and currently have registered students from over 30 different countries.

So get your tickets now!

Tickets for Christchurch Twestival are now on sale. Just click the “tickets” button in the top right hand corner to be taken through to Amiando’s secure payment system. A $5* donation will get you entrance to the Christchurch event. Amiando are waiving all payment fees, so that 100% of your donation goes straight to charity: water.

Even if you are not attending the event, please consider donating the $5 anyways. Remember, all the money collected will go straight to the charity.

If you want to make a donation of $5USD and tweet about it, you can do so on the right hand side.

* The Amiando system only has AUD as the closest New Zealand currency. Therefore you will see the tickets are priced at $4 AUD, which is equivalent to $5 and a few cents NZD.

Tickets will be on sale shortly for the Twestival Christchurch event. All funds from the $5 ticket price will go directly to charity: water. So buy your ticket online and go into the draw for a chance to win a certification course from Search Engine College. Their may be other goodies on raffle so make sure to buy your ticket as soon as they go on sale.

If you are in the South Island and unable to attend the event, please consider making your $5 donation through the Christchurch Twestival website.

More updates soon!

Search Engine College is offering one FREE certification course as a raffle prize to attendees of Twestival Christchurch. The winner can choose from any certification course offered by the College.

Prize value is between USD 295 and 395 depending on course chosen. More information to follow.

The feedback that we are getting on Twitter is that everyone is looking forward to making Twestival Christchurch a great event for a great Charity!

You can now follow updates about the event both here and at TwestivalCHC on Twitter.

Because Christchurch got started a bit late to the game, we still need…um…everything! So if you are keen to do a little more than just show up, get in touch, comment here or tweet and I’m sure we can find something for you to do

Today:

• Awaiting to hear back from the venue
• Awaiting to hear back from sound people
• Talking to the Local Press

What We Would Still Like:

• Papparazzi, do you have mean photography skills? Would you like to take pictures or video of the event?
• Door Prizes, Raffles…
• Cash Donations to help the night or Sponsorship some other way
• Entertainers

Tickets should be available for sale at the latest tomorrow from this website (Friday, Feb 6) so please check back.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on February 12!

Ghada
@girlstoys

Jennifer Connolly in charity: water PSA

By rallying together globally, under short timescales, for a single aim on the same day, the Twestival hopes to bring awareness to this global crisis.

charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.

Right now 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us.

Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.

Many communities in developing nations often have a plentiful supply of clean drinking water just below the ground, but no way to get to it.