BitGeek's Blog: The end of Movember

Hard to believe that a month of fundraising for Movember has come to an end. I didn't quite make it to my goal of raising a thousand dollars. I managed to reach a little over half of that though and helped contribute $600.00 towards prostate cancer. I'm very pleased to have so many good friends kick in a few bucks towards a good cause.

I thought for sure that my social network on twitter would kick in a few bucks too, but sadly not a single person from Twitter made a contribution to my campaign. I'm hoping that they found someone else to support through the month of Movember, but I would have figured that someone among my 300+ followers would answer the call. I also prodded my Google+ network for a contribution and didn't have any luck there either. So much for the power of social media I guess.

I did manage to guilt a few colleagues into slapping their name behind a donation and for that I am also very grateful. It is good to see that there is support there even if Twitter failed me. lol ;o)

One particular glaring omission was contributions from my family at large. My mom, sister, and brother-in-law all made contributions and for that I am happy. Surprisingly even though I have 3 other family members afflicted with cancer, no one else outside my immediate family felt compelled to donate. wow. I suppose they have bigger worries I guess (and I'm not referring to the members of my family suffering from cancer - they should NOT feel obligated to contribute but should be a beneficiary instead!).

Lastly I was floored that I did receive one anonymous donation. I was elated that someone out of the blue would put down a few dollars on my campaign. I suspect that I know this person based on the private message that was left for me on my Movember website but would definitely love to know who it was. :o) Thank You.

So if you didn't get a chance to visit my site, you can go to http://mobro.co/Jaicin to have a look at my gallery and see how progress was made on my Mo'stache.