I often hear people joke that folks in Seattle love dogs or cats, but really dislike children. I have seen examples of this from time to time, but mostly assume that's the exception not the rule. As an organizer for the Seattle Twestival, I wanted to see how that regional oddity could affect our efforts to support YouthCare, a group that supports homeless youth. I am posting three nearly identical ads. One each for homeless dogs, cats and kids. I will track click-thru-rates for each ad and report later ion the results. Regardless of which ad brought you here, you should attend the Seattle Twestival for YouthCare.

UPDATE

Seattleites on Facebook prefer pets to kids by a ratio of 6:1. I would say that's shocking, but why bother. Check out the YouthCare site and discover a group in Seattle that really cares for the area's youth.

This was the result of a geotargeted Facebook social ad campaign run on Sept. 9th.

This was originally posted on the Seattle Twestival blog. The event went well and we raised over $6,000 for our Seattle nonprofit, YouthCare. I do believe that we could have raised a lot more if we were supporting homeless pets. It's a strange, strange world.

This week I put together a short video for Twestival Seattle in which I ask people in the Seattle area what they would do without clean drinking water. I’ve always liked doing these types of spontaneous interview sessions where you pose a simple premise and ask for a quick response. I shot it with my Sony HDR-HC1 camera in High Definition in Bellevue and Seattle, and it came out pretty good. I was even able to upload it to Youtube in HD, and it looks really sharp. Also, every person I spoke to made interesting comments and was eerily insightful and articulate. I couldn’t have scripted it better. It’s rewarding to know that I can actually create something without the involvement of other people. That is, if you don’t count the people in front of the camera as people.