Somehow, a small group of geeks managed to pull together a giant party in Toronto in 10 days, raising over $20,000 for the Daily Bread Food Bank. A few of our heroes sent us messages of support. This is one from Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg.

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One of the original Cluetrain Manifesto authors, now one of the world's finest chocolatiers, Rick Levine was kind enough to send a big message of support to the HoHoTO crowd.

HoHoTO was the party that Twitter built. A small group of geeks, using their Twitter feeds and email, managed to pull together a giant Holiday party in Toronto in around 10 days. More than 600 attendees helped raise over $20,000 for the Daily Bread Food Bank.

We asked a few geek heroes to send us messages of support prior to the event. Here's our friend Rick Levine with a challenge to the HoHoTOnians.

[Note: this video is kindly made available by Rick under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Sha re Alike 3.0 Unported Licence http://creativecommons.org/lic enses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ]

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To our great surprise, we somehow managed to pull together a huge Holiday party in support of Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank, using Twitter as our primary communications tool, in about 10 days. We ended up raising over $20,000. A few of our geek heroes were kind enough to send messages of support for the party. This one is from an old friend - Cluetrain co-author David Weinberger.

[Note: this video is kindly made available by David under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Sha re Alike 3.0 Unported Licence http://creativecommons.org/lic enses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ]

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