#ProgressIs rallying community support for John Garcia #DeskDiary

Last night I attended a Pre-SXSW meeting hosted by John Garcia, Digital Designer at The Kamehameha Schools. The purpose of the meeting was for Hawaii residents to get together to share their strategies for attending the largest interactive conference, South by Southwest.

At the end, we were all provided an opportunity to share our current projects and interests.  There were many highlights of our discussion and it was good to see everyone, especially Cory Shaw whom I had not seen since the last time I was in Austin, Texas for SXSW in 2009.

One of the highlights was learning that John was selected as a finalist in an Audi social media campaign which could earn $25K for a local charity.  He’s leading, this is not only the power of social media, but the collective power of the Hawaii social media community.

Here’s how you can help:

1. Retweet his original tweet or any tweet that contains #ProgressIs AND #DeskDiary hashtags.
2. Increase the views of his #DeskDiary twitpic and share the link with your community.
3. Watch his #ProgressIs video on YouTube and leave a comment.
4. Write and publish a blog post, then share on Twitter with the #ProgressIs and #DeskDiary hashtags.

Each action earns John a different amount of points, so why not do them all.  Let’s keep him in the lead, not because he’s a friend, but that his qualifying tweet, “#ProgressIs remaining timeless in design, pure in performance, genuine in quality while innovating for the future” is the best entry.