FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ed Comeau, Publisher
Campus Firewatch
www.campus-firewatch.com
413-323-6002 (tel)
413-896-5718 (cell)
ecomeau@campus-firewatch.com
Social media campaign focuses on campus fire safety with innovative contest to start National Campus Fire Safety Month
Students, parents and others are urged to use Twitter to spread the word about campus fire safety
BELCHERTOWN, Mass., August 26, 2009 — From August 27 to September 3, Campus Firewatch wants to provide its Twitter community with an easy way to raise awareness about campus fire safety – and possibly win some great prizes including an iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iTunes Gift Certificates.
Beginning at 8 p.m. on Thursday, August 27, 2009 we are asking our community and our community’s communities to start using Twitter to send messages to students with fire safety tips using the hashtag “#tellastudent” at the end of your message.
We’ll be putting out examples several times a day for people @campusfirewatch, so you can simply follow us, copy and send the messages on to students you know.
Here are some examples:
Whoever sends the most tweets to students using #tellastudent as of midnight on Thursday, September 3, 2009, will win the iPod Touch. The second highest will get the Nano. It’s that easy.
We are also going to be giving away numerous iTunes gift certificates daily to people whose tweets are the most creative. Please be sure to follow @campusfirewatch to find out if you’ve won.
How do we know you’re tweeting students? We don’t. We’ll trust you. But if non-students get this information, we’ll all be a little safer anyway. As students return to campus, we hope this is a fun way to get important reminders to students.
If you don’t know how to use Twitter, check out this video and join in.
Also join us on Facebook
Visit our Website
Take a look at our Social Media Newsroom
RULES
1. This competition is offered by Campus Firewatch and is open to anyone with a Twitter account who is at least 16 years of age.
2. The contest will begin at 8 pm EST on Thursday, August 27, 2009 and finish at 11:59 pm EST on Thursday, September 3, 2009.
3. We will announce prize winners on Friday, September 4th. The prizes will be shipped within 31 days of the competition closing date.
4. You can tweet as many times as you like but we will disqualify automated tweets.
5. Entrants' personal details will not be used for any marketed purposes.
6. Campus Firewatch nor its affiliated groups will have any liability for (a) any technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (b) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the competition; (c) any malfunction of or damage to the prizes; or (d) any restrictions or delays imposed by any customs authorities or any import or other taxes of any kind imposed by any taxation authority in respect of the prizes.
Campus Firewatch is a social enterprise focusing on campus fire safety. For more information, visit our website at www.campus-firewatch.com.
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Campus Firewatch ● P.O. Box 1046, Belchertown, MA ● 01007 ● 1-413-323-6002 (tel)
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