Marysville Cookbook, Lenovo 10Sec Hero Competition & Twitter.

Sometime in late July, early August, @kerrypintado from Twitter sent me a link about the Lenovo 10Sec Hero Competition. I entered the Worldwide competition, which was to win $50,000 for a community/charity of the winners choice. I didn’t think I had any hope of winning.

The rules stated “submit ONE essay that describes how you have or someone you know used 10 seconds to become someone’s hero or how you or someone you know has done a good deed in 10 seconds”

The competition rules said 150 words, so I duly trotted off and in 10 or so minutes, figured something out that would be 150 words, then the frustration started. It turns out it wasn’t 150 words, but 200………….. Took me a while to figure that one out!

I pressed the send button, then promptly forgot about the entry. I mean ONE winner world-wide for $50,000, there would be 100’s of thousands of people from around the world applying, surely?

On Tuesday I received an email telling me that I am A FINALIST. The ONE Australian chosen to show the world what one person can do for one community with one book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW……….

1 of 24……… Who would have thought? I only had 72 hours to put together a short video presentation of no more than 5MB. I reached out to the Twitter Community and hands reached out to help me.

Now the crux of the problem, I had to create video to show off my handy work, for someone who is camera shy and prefers to be behind the books and not on the front cover. I was a little shaken up – By Tuesday night the voice component was done, by Wednesday the whole video was completed and sitting on my desktop.

After re-reading the rules of entry for the competition, I realise that once the video component of the entry has been submitted (and received) I receive a Lenovo laptop computer, just for entering and being a finalist. I was gob-smacked to say the least.

I am about to press the send button on the video submission, wish me luck and come back on the 14th of September for the link that takes you to the voting page. The rules state ONE VOTE per person PER DAY. So don’t ruin it for Marysville.

Thank-you everyone for your support, the help, the guidance and especially for putting up with me spruiking what I think is a good cause, The Marysville Cookbook!