C2G blog

Fame at last!

Written by Carolyn Managh
Thursday, 18 March 2010 19:09

One of my favourite parts of the C2G website is the Wall of Fame - its addictive. The Wall of Fame is a tribute to those Heroes who invite the most number of friends to join C2G. What you may not know (cause we haven't made it blatantly obvious) is that you can go back time and time again to the HEROES page and add another 10 or more friends ...the site will automatically recognise your name and add this new number to your previous Friends total. This is how I keep getting higher and higher up on the Wall of Fame. A fav features is when you mouse over the picture of each person, their name and number of invitees comes up.

The C2G Wall of Fame had an inauspicious beginnning.

Last Christmas, my two brothers and I were staying with our parents in Dunedin, New Zealand (our sister was with her hubbie at their new bach in Central Otago). We don't all get together very often, so it's good fun hanging out. The boys were under the misillusion of being on holiday break but I wasn't having a bar of that. Every morning, I rallied the brothers to daily "Band Meeting"  at Delicacy Cafe around the corner. Despite their frequent lack of enthusiam and not infrequent ridicule in my direction, a large number of ideas behind C2G were created at these Band Meetings.


By the time we got to developing an advocacy programme, the brothers were starting to buoycott me and my constant hijacking of their morning coffee. How insensitive of them. The only way I could convince them to keep on helping me was to bribe them with fame and a place in heaven. Now, whilst I'd like to think I'm a Saint-in-Waiting, my influence over entry through the pearly gates is fairly marginal, to say the least. And the boys weren't exactly motivated by my offer of fame..."I'll put your picture on the home page of the C2G website!" However, they did think that the people who were the real legends of C2G should be featured on the home page... and so the Heroes programme came to be.


And I held up my end of the bargain - my brothers are now famous, currently sitting in 2nd place on the Wall of Fame.

 

« Back to blog