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Royal House of Azeroth on the Arathor(US) holds HHV Donation Drive

Brigwyn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:49:31 +0000

Royal House of Azeroth on Arathor(US)

Can you feel the excitement in the air? I know I can. There is always a busy shuffling buzz during the last week of anything. And here at Azeroth United it’s no different. As we are in the middle of our last week here of Hearts, Hands and Voices for Child’s Play. And you know what? It’s been amazing. You guys have been amazing.

We blew the doors off our first goal of $5,000. And we’re getting closer and closer towards reaching our second goal of $10,000!! And it’s all thanks to you guys!

See everyone is getting in on the action now. We still have our #IBlameSyrana twitter campaign going. But as you might have read Mike Schramm of WoW.com and The WoW Insider Show recently did a Guitar Hero Endless Set Marathon and earned over $350!!

And now we’ve just got some other news. It seems Royal House of Azeroth over on Arathor(US) has been busy holding their own Guild Charity Drive.

This awesome idea and event was kicked off by Michael Coniff. He came up with the idea of getting his entire guild has been getting in on the action.

As a guild, Royal House of Azeroth has been scraping and saving and donating like crazy. Their original goal is to reach $100 as a guild. And honestly they might want to rethink that because as of last Friday they had hit $80 just with the internal donations and they had at least 3 made directly using the Chip-In widget here on the site!

So see, here you thought you had to do everything yourself! Get your guild involved like Royal House of Azeroth did! I’ll be honest, I don’t understand why we haven’t seen even more community drives like this going on.

So come on guys! Let’s get to it! We only got a few days left!

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Mike Schramm of WoW.com Lends His Voice!

Stompalina — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:47:49 +0000

As promised, Mike Schramm attempted a LIVE 84-song Rock Band Endless Setlist on EXPERT to raise money for Hearts, Hands, and Voices for Child’s Play Charity. Today at 1:30pm CST, Mike began rocking his way through the first 5 sections of the play list before being stumped by Tenacious D – “Master Exploder” for nearly 2 hours. Ever the champion, Mike pushed through and the audience responded with more donations for the cause!

Mike kicked things off with a goal of $200 during his initial broadcast. And, once the goal was reached he graced listeners with his vocals while covering Kansas – “Carry On Wayward Son”.

In the end, Mike made it through 75 songs in 9 hours and raised over $375 rocking for Child’s Play Charity! We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Mike for filling our Sunday afternoon with great songs, great laughs, and amazing support for Child’s Play Charity!

As a reminder, we are in the LAST WEEK of our fund raising drive for Child’s Play Charity! If there was ever a time to get involved, it’s NOW! Lend your Heart, Hand, and Voice to Azeroth United TODAY!

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Think Geek Joins in on Hearts, Hands and Voices

Brigwyn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:45:51 +0000

We’d like to thank ThinkGeek for donating over $180 worth of items for Azeroth United’s 1st Annual Hearts, Hands and Voices for Child’s Play Charity Event.

That’s right folks. The store for all Geeks, ThinkGeek, has jumped on board and is helping us help Child’s Play.

Let’s face it. If you play Warcraft or reading this post you’re as much of a Geek as any of anyone. Maybe not the thick black fram glasses kind of geek, but a gamer geek at the very least. Anyways, I know I am.

When I saw these gifts I started drooling. Seriously! Look at what were donated.

Bag of Holding ($49.99 value)
Epoch Clock ($49.99 value)
Personal Soundtrack T-shirt (29.99 value)
Personal Drum Kit T-shirt (29.99 value)
Personal Electronic Guitar T-Shirt (29.99 value)

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Child’s Play Recognizes Azeroth United

Brigwyn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:15:12 +0000

Can you guys believe it?!? We’ve earned over $6,500 for Child’s Play! Yep, that’s right, we’ve blown bast our original goal of $5,000 and well on our way to our second goal of $10,000! Great job guys!

Don’t take my word on it. Here’s what we heard back from Kristin Lindsay when we told Child’s Play we had passed our original goal.

“What a fantastic result, WOW! You guys have qualified officially as Gold Sponsors now, and I’d like to put a link and logo up for your on the Child’s Play site.” – Kristin Lindsay

Isn’t that awesome news!

We can’t stop now though. We have about 4 more weeks until we’re at the end Hearts, Hands and Voices and we’re now about $3,400 away from our new goal. So quit now! Donate using the chip-in button because every dollar counts.

Also, you can share your voice and support by adding a Chip-in widget to your site by copying and pasting the code below.

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Hearts, Hands and Voices Kickoff Podcast!

Fimlys — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:57:19 +0000

We kicked it off in Style! Join Brigwyn, Fimlys and Stompalina as they welcome Kristen Lindsay from Child’s Play! We talk all about this awesome charity and about what Hearts, Hands and Voices is! We highlight some things that the AU Members have been doing to help out and how you can help! Take a listen and don’t forget to spread the word. Give your Heart, Hand and Voice for Child’s Play now!

Hearts, Hands and Voices Kickoff Podcast

(Click the little Arrow on the left of the link to Stream the show)..

Help spread the word by putting the show on your site! Add:



Hearts, Hands and Voices Kickoff Podcast

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Veliaf Announces The Hex Factor Contest for Child’s Play

Brigwyn — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:54:02 +0000

Azeroth United, a group of World of Warcraft focused podcasters, bloggers, artists and players, have joined together to earn $5,000 during their Hearts, Hands and Voices for Child’s Play charity event.

The great thing about being a community is seeing how we all use what we have to help each other achieve something greater than we could by ourselves.

We’ve seen this with Sideshow and Syrana’s #IBlameSyrana metadrive on Twitter. What started as a single blog with a great idea, has now grown to include two other sites (Fulguralis of Killing’em Slowly and Samodeon of Massive Nerd) jumping on board to keep this going and spurring it on. Thanks guys!

And now we have something else going on. Veliaf over on der Hexenmeister has announced he will be sponsoring The Hex Factor Contest for Child’s Play. He’ll be using his 25% off Discount Code courtesy of SwagDog.com as a prize for his Hex Factor Contest for Child’s Play. Each week he’ll host a different contest aimed at helping bring more attention to Azeroth United and Child’s Play.

All you have to do for the first contest is submit a Child’s Play themed slogan. Hmm.. maybe I’ll can enter? What about, “Child’s Play – it’s much more than just a game!” See it’s easy!

But before you go check out Veliaf over on der Hexenmeister for all the rules why not click the chip-in on the sidebar and through in your donation to help us bring a smile to a child.

Azeroth United (www.azerothunited.com) is a community of Internet Media Sites and Sources built and maintained by World of Warcraft Fans and Players around the world. United, their voices are being joined to support common interests and reach goals that would be unattainable alone. Their inaugural event, the First Annual – Hearts, Hands, and Voices Drive for Child’s Play Charity drive kicked off on November 1, 2009.

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Azeroth United Hosts a LIVE Interview with Kristin Lindsay of Child’s Play

Brigwyn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:41:10 +0000

All of us here at Azeroth United are honored to have Kristin Lindsay, the Project Manager of Child’s Play as a special guest to help us kick off the Hearts, Hands and Voices Child’s Child’s Play charity event.

(Yep, believe it or not, that’s her over in the picture doing her best Elvis Impression it looks like. Maybe she can teach Fimlys how to get hair like that!)

All kidding aside, we are truly honored to have Kristin as a very special guest joining us on TONIGHT! November 2, 2009 at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific for an awesome LIVE podcast event hosted by Azeroth United.

We hope you plan plan to join us as we learn more about Child’s Play.

We’ll discuss everything from:

How they got started? How do they operate? Maybe, we can even get an answer to that dreaded question, is did Gabe and Typho ever get over the Swine Flu!

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Monday, November 2nd at 8:00pm Pacific (11:00 pm Eastern). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to Azeroth United’s AUTV LIVE! page to connect with the stream. If that’s not working for you and you’re having issues then go to the Azeroth United Ustream page.

Some general ground rules:

Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.

You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions.

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

If you would like to learn more about Azeroth United. Or how you can be a part of Hearts, Hands and Voices for Child’s Play. Check out http://www.azerothunited.com/hhv

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Azeroth United announces SwagDog as Corporate Sponsor for Hearts, Hands and Voices

Brigwyn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:06:19 +0000

Azeroth United would like to announce today that SwagDog, creators of the popular officially licensed custom apparel for World of Warcraft guilds, has made a donation in gift cards and also has pledged to give six weekly 25% of Discount codes for everyone that makes a donation to the Azeroth United’s Hearts, Hands and Voices for Child’s Play charity event.

This generous donation from SwagDog will help Azeroth United successfully reach their goal of $5,000 for Child’s Play.

About SwagDog
SwagDog.com is a division of Thunder Creek LLC, one of America’s leading manufacturers of apparel. SwagDog has developed proprietary software for maximizing the Direct On Garment production of apparel. For more information or to create custom guild apparel visit: http://www.SwagDog.com.

SwagDog.com is proud to be an officially licensed partner of the following brands:

Blizzard Entertainment
Gearbox Software
Geneon
MGM Entertainment
Mitch Hedberg
Top Cow Comics
Weekly World News
World Combat League

About Azeroth United
Azeroth United is a community of Internet Media Sites and Sources built and maintained by World of Warcraft Fans and Players around the world. United, their voices are being joined to support common interests and reach goals that would be unattainable alone. Their inaugural event, the First Annual – Hearts, Hands, and Voices Drive for Child’s Play Charity, began on November 1st.

About Child’s Play

Since 2003, Child’s Play was set up and organized, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 60 hospitals worldwide. In five short years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

That was awesome. You guys have proven over and over again that you are an overwhelming force, and you really came through and made a real difference to the millions of kids that children’s hospitals care for each year. So we’re doing it again this year, only this time we’ve expanded Child’s Play to more hospitals around US and the globe so you can send toys to a hospital a little closer to home.

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Does your support sit to the left, or to the right?

Stompalina — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:56:01 +0000

OMGIMACHIEF

Thanks to all for the amazing support and thoughtful responses the past few weeks. Excitement is building, and we are couldn’t be happier with the feedback and overall response from members of the WoW Internet Media Community.

One of the items Brig, Fim, Nib and I had discussed was how we can utilize all of the various social networking sites and communities to share information about Azeroth United, and now our upcoming charity drive – Hearts, Hands, and Voices for Child’s Play Charity. Intern, we were in the midst of preparing a twibbon to let members of the World of Warcraft twitter community share their support by sporting the Child’s Play logo, when we were approached by the World of Warcraft twibe leader herself Chief Omgitsafox!

And while we had the same idea to how twitter users can show their support, our approach to design was slightly different. You see, whereas Omgitsafox’s design was on the left side of the twitter avatar, Brigwyn’s was way, way far right. Surely Brigwyn’s placement was in no way a Freudian symbol of his right-winged need to control druids.

I digress…. whether you are on the right, or of the left, make sure to lend your support for Azeroth United’s Hearts, Hands, and Voices for Child’s Play Charity.

Let’s review some of the things that you can do to get involved:

Send a note to your favorite website if they aren’t sporting an AU banner – “AU RAWKS U SHULD JOIN!”
Follow @AzerothUnited on Twitter
Put a Child’s Play Charity twibbon on your twitter avatar
Retweet AU News and Information that interests and excites you about planned events!
Lend your time and energy to help secure sponsorship for HHV by e-mailing admin@azerothunited.com
Give your “Voice” to support HHV by submitting an audio endorsement for upcoming promotions as HHV kicks off. Check azerothunited.com/hhv for more info
Or, share your “Voice” support by posting an HHV banner on your website. Check azerothunited.com/hhv for more info

No matter how much time you have to give, any and all support for Hearts, Hands, and Voices is greatly appreciated. Together, we are poised to make HHV the largest World of Warcraft charity event that Azeroth has ever seen!

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@AzerothUnited Meta-Drive Achievement #iblamesyrana

Stompalina — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:06:52 +0000

STARTS NOVEMBER 1!

Guess who got creative with their Sponsorship Contribution to Hearts, Hands, and Voices for Child’s Play Charity?! None other than Sideshow and Syrana… Playing on their twitter Internet Community banter, S & S will be donating $.10 to Child’s Play Charity for every blameworthy tweet which includes #iblamesyrana.

For every tweet containing #iblamesyrana (with at least something blameworthy, not empty tweets), Sideshow and Syrana will donate $.10 to Child’s Play Charity, up to a maximum of $50 worth of tweets. Whatever that total is (up to the max) they’ll match. (So if there’s 500 tweets bringing us to $50, they will donate $100).

Even if you have never tweeted a day in your life, now is the time to #iblamesyrana, and show our support for Child’s Play Charity.

Let’s explain how this works…

Say your toon gets stuck while you are trying to wall walk in Ironforge
You pop on twitter and chat about it: Got stuck while haxing IF, the game hates me! #iblamesyrana
You pass the blame for your misfortune
Another $.10 goes into the kitty for Child’s Play Charity from Sideshow and Syrana!

And, coming soon… a Child’s Play Charity twibbon. Your avatar can be your voice to support Hearts, Hands, and Voices for Child’s Play Charity! Also, soon… Twitter Unity here on Azeroth United!

This is a great opprotunity for everyone to get involved and give a little, and get into tweeting with the countless other World of Warcraft players who are active within the social networking community! Get involved!

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