TwEAT Out, Fight AIDS

Listen up! If you're planning on eating out with any friends or family members soon, then mark your calendars for April 29th, 2010. This is when Dining Out for Life wants to set the world record for "Largest Day of Dining Out!".

Here's what to do: In the weeks leading up to Dining Out For Life, participants will be asked to register here, make a reservation at a participating restaurant on April 29th, and then, and this is the important part, TwEAT about it!

TwEAT (Tw-EET) verb

-To use social media utilities such as Twitter or Facebook to advertise and spread the word about participation in a fight against HIV/AIDS which specifically uses the "twEATers" eating habits as a means of raising money.
ex: "If we want to join Jonathan on April 29th for dinner, we will have to follow his TwEATS."

You must register which participating restaurant where the reservations are made because only those registered will be counted towards the world record!

Cyber-service is an evolving trend with the growing number of people who utilize social media as a networking hub. “We are hoping to connect Dining Out For Life in a significant way with many who are responsive to cause-related action,” stated Tim Mahoney, CMO Subaru of America. “We plan to link followers of social media and fans of Dining Out For Life to encourage participation in this event off-line, in real-time, in an effort to raise even more awareness and needed funds.” Last year over 250,000 participants helped raise nearly $4 million dollars in just one day of dining. All monies raised in each city, stay in that city. With a successful viral campaign, organizers expect to exceed these numbers.

We can't wait to read the TwEATS! Follow us on twitter, here!

Join us on Facebook!

Hello Dining Out For Life Friends and Family!

As we get closer and closer to April 29th, many of you have asked how you can help promote and publicize Dining Out For Life. One simple way is to suggest DO4L to your friends on Facebook! It's effective. It’s easy. Here is how to do it:

• Go to the Dining Out For Life Page www.facebook.com/DineOut4Life

• On the column at the left side you will see the following:

• Suggest To My Friends <<< --- click on that.

• You then can click on your friends (sadly it has to be done one-by-one, so it can take a few minutes)... You can also opt to right a personal message, endorsing Dining Out For Life and our mission to battle HIV/AIDS, or and then send them all a mass message.

Your friends will then opt to join our fan page! This is immensely important, as their friends will see it, and so-on, and so-on, and so-on…It will increase our reach and all our fans!

With your help, we can make this year's event even more successful then last year!

For those of you living in the Washington DC area - remember, YOUR Dining Out For Life event is Thursday, March 11! And Canadians in Okanagan Region, you will be Dining OUt on March 25th!

And if you use Twitter, don't forget to follow us @DineOut4Life!

Thank you so much for your support - and with all of us working together, we can make a huge difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS!