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TextPoetry – the beginning

So, I’ve been going on about the TextPoetry to a few of you for a while now, and I finally got a chance to start on it. I have been working on a simple one page website which will give out all the details. This website is very much similar to an earlier website I created for Emma Sing, at www.singhforcharity.co.cc. These single page websites are a great way to promote things such as the competition, upcoming events and in Emma’s case her charity walk.

So the webpage is now up at www.textpoetry.co.uk.

This competition was made possible by a funding bit to O2 ThinkBig scheme. Along with that, volunteering at Aik Saath for 2 years now, have created beautiful links with many other people and organisations and I was able to get BlackBerry (RIM), to sponsor this competition by donating a BlackBerry handset as the winning prize. This donation of this handset is still in the pipeline and as soon as I have confirmation of it, I will be putting up details of the prize.

Along with this I have decided to use an internet based text-messaging service, so that I can automatically add all the text messages received straight into the database.

I have also created a very simple voting area, which wont be open for till around late November. This voting are will allow everybody to ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ the poem. As the entrants will be kept anonymous (as described in the Terms and Condition of the competition), I have created a random post generator, which on every page refresh brings up a random post from a database. People can then either like or dislike the poem. A record of all likes and dislikes is kept in a database, and the amount is in no way displayed to the voters/users. This is because, the likes and the dislikes are only a guidance on the trends, and will just help us/judges decide on the winning entries. Just to confirm, the winning entries will be decided by the judges.

The phone number and the bbpin for you to send in your entries is yet to be confirmed, as soon as details are confirmed, everything will be updated online and the competition will be live. Facebook open even invitation will be created for you to invite as many people as you like to help your best mate win a blackberry.

Just waiting for a few things to fit into place, and the competition will be live. Till then get your creative minds on and start thinking of those 152 characters that will win you a BlackBerry Smartphone.

If you have any direct questions regarding this competition, the email us at info@textpoetry.com

For any other inquiries, email at me@mansimransingh.com

Tweet @MSingh_5 with #TextPoetry.

Happy Poet-ing.

 

@RIM – Aik Saath support safeguarding at Research in Motion – part 1

So, today I went down to the BlackBerry offices in Slough. YES Slough is going up in the world, the industrial estate is booming with the likes of HTC, Research In Motion (RIM- makers of BlackBerry), O2 and even the likes of Burger King offices, Lego and some car showrooms too. WOW

Besides all that and back to the point, at Aik Saath, the community cohesion charity i have been volunteering for about 2 years now, we are working with BlackBerry on a safeguarding project to help BlackBerry redeem its great name in the phone industry and tell the world why BBM is amazing !! Yes you heard, BBM is the original, its the authentic, its the best way for instant messaging on a mobile device. Debate anyone? Then twit me on twitter.

Anyway, so we went down to BlackBerry in slough (click here to see the picture, sorry no direct posting, not because i cant do it, but because I want you to see all the amazing people that went there), and were greeted with great pizza (yes i love pizza, and dominoes was great especially after a pizza hut buffet).

We discussed the ways we use our blackberrys, the way we communicate (especially discussing the great uses of the awesomly-great BBM), and how its actually all a positive thing as long as people are aware of the dangers. We discussed ideas on ways to educate the parents worried about their children using technology (especially the technophobe parents) and discussed how young children need to be made aware of the dangers of using technology to communicate with people they may or may not know!

A full summary will be posted, once the official training pack has been generated, if it doesnt go up, bother me on twitter.

Tomorrow we will film a new advert/video for BlackBerry, again about the positive uses of BlackBerry messenger and to tell the world (especially after the London rioting), that BBM is great, and remind the media that BBM is only a tool and a very good one. Its up to the user how they decide to use it.

So for everyone hating on BlackBerry and BBM, watch out, as volunteers from Aik Saath are about to tell you the better side of the story!

Part 2 will be posted tomorrow after the filming.

Keep smiling, stay safe: online and everywhere !