{"id":303,"date":"2007-09-24T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2007-09-24T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:15:00","slug":"where-have-i-been-and-what-the-hell-is-a-create-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Where have I been, and what the hell is a Create-A-Thon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday was my companies annual Create-A-Thon. Let me take a moment to explain what this is &#8211; basically it is very similar to a telethon you might have seen on TV back in the 60&#8217;s (you know a TV host asking for money for hours on end). The difference here is that we (Mediastudio &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediastudio.com\" target=\"_newsy\">www.mediastudio.com<\/a>) ask for proposals from non-profits around the DC area and then grant as many of these groups free design, printing, consulting and organization streamlining. Then do all of this work during a twenty four hour period.<\/p>\n<p>This year we were able to help 14 different non-profits. We started at 8 am Friday morning, and went until 8 am Saturday morning with a celebratory party for all the non-profits, the designers, donors, and board members of the non-profits Saturday evening. The week leading up to this is a flurry of compressing 5 days of work into 4, and shopping for enough food, snacks and whatever else a team of 11 designers and 5 consultants need (and by this I usually mean a lot of coffee and Red Bull). <\/p>\n<p>This was our fourth year of doing this and it gets more satisfying every year.<\/p>\n<p>For more info go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediastudio.com\/createathon\/default.asp\" target=\"_newsy\">www.mediastudio.com\/createathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday was my companies annual Create-A-Thon. Let me take a moment to explain what this is &#8211; basically it is very similar to a telethon you might have seen on TV back in the 60&#8217;s (you know a TV host asking for money for hours on end). The difference here is that we (Mediastudio &#8211; www.mediastudio.com) ask for proposals from non-profits around the DC area and then grant as many of these groups free design, printing, consulting and organization streamlining. Then do all of this work during a twenty four hour period. This year we were able to help&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=303\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where have I been, and what the hell is a Create-A-Thon?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[101],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}