I Love #hohoTO, I Go Every Year

If you are on Twitter and live in Southern Ontario, come!

It’s the holiday season’s classiest event, and it raises money for an important cause: feeding hungry Toronto people, because charity starts at home.


(photo by hyfen)

Founded in 2008, HoHoTO has been called, “the party that Twitter built”, it’s closing in on $200 000 raised for the Daily Food Bank, and is run completely by volunteers on a budget of nothing.

Queen Rania of Jordan has even used HoHoTO as a shining example of social media influencing online do-gooding.  So cool eh.

Here’s my Twitvid from last year inside the party, which is dark, but you can just feel the fun.

Come ready to buy raffle tickets and donate heavily, make sure to have your photo taken by Photojunkie, cabs home you know the drill, and don’t be shy… this is always the kind of crowd who’ve all been in that boat…. “hi, I know you from Twitter and the internet…”, say hi!

Me last year:

HoHoTO

follow along on Twitter @hohoTO

Thursday December 15, 8pm

at The Mod Club

benefiting the Daily Food Bank

Here’s a relational chart I made using the search “hohoTO”, for fun.

(click on it to zoom, get more info, drag stuff you’ll figure it out)

See you Thursday!

Holiday Parties are the Best Part

Of anything Christmas related the parties are the best part.  I went to a ton this year, but the top two were HoHoTO and The Biz Media one.

At HoHoTO I had such a great time I forgot to take any photos.  This is me before I walked out the door.

This party was great because all the best people come out, like, it’s a quality guest list that somehow the douchebags get weeded out from, and it’s all for charity, specifically The Daily Food Bank.  

For $150 you can feed a whole family for a month.  Pretty good deal, eh.  They need donations all year long, hint.

At The Biz Media event, that was just a classy affair.  Lots of food, drinks, an Emulator: the world’s first multitouch midi controller for DJs and… a Hanukkah bush… when was the last time you saw one of those?

Wonder if anyone actually ate them off the tree.  They were real, it was possible, I might have pawed a bunch.