Dominic "The Hodge" Hodgson

Thanks for the responses, we’ve now found a Fancy Dress Shop!

• Do you own, run or work in a fancy dress shop?
• Are you looking for a low cost long term marketing strategy?
• Do you want some good content for your website?

If the answer to any of the questions above is yes (or even if it isn’t but you ‘know’ someone then this is for you.

Hodge on the run is a unique charity fundrasing event taking place each month throughout 2010, I will run a set distance each month in costume, the costume is decided by a donation auction to a specific charity, Hodge on the run is focusing on smaller charities which the money will have more of an impact.

We may have a technology partner but we are looking for a costume partner, here’s what we require

• The supply of 12 costumes over the course of 2010

Here’s what we can offer to sweeten the deal

• A link / small banner on the footer of thehodge.co.uk/run
• A mention on each run announcement on thehodge.co.uk blog
• Each time a costume is selected, a provided by link to the costume
• Your banner will be on my twitter background for 2010
• Each run will have video, picture and live GPS coverage, you are welcome to all of this for content on your site
• You get to help 12 charities and a warm fuzzy feeling

The average costume costs £50 so once a month is £600, there are not many places you can get a decent advert for a whole year for £600 right?

One of the things we want to do with hodge on the run (new website coming soon for that and it looks AWESOME!) is livetrack where I am during the run and put some video and stuff up and afterwards have an analysis of the route and run.

I may have a fantastic company willing to donate some of the gear to do it but heres my thinking

iPod touch + mifi + Nike Running thing.. (for the video stuff we will be using my FlipHD)

For those of you who say iPhone, no! 1) iPhones cost a lot of money (and I no longer have one) and 2) battery life..

the iPod touch + the Mifi wireless router should give me a decent grounding for where I am, my next challenge is to get that data to post to somewhere online so I can post it to a pretty map (if anyone has any clues on that on I’d be more than willing to listen )

Ingredients :

• 450ml – Double Cream
• 25ml – Honey
• 4 Rashers – Bacon
• 1 Ben and Jerry’s book
• 1 Ice Cream Maker

Taste : Well it wasn’t perfect, to be honest I think I put a bit too much honey in it but if was certainly edible, not something I’ll make again the same way but something I’ll have a go with

Everyone seems to be doing twitter lists this week so heres mine

1. The Hodge – A fantastic bloke, very funny and quite modest too
2. Think Visibility – A fantastic web conference that’s back on March 13th
3. Geekery.in – A geek events calendar that’s free for people to use.
4. SatLotto – A relatively new twitter account which tweets Saturdays lottery results.
5. Hodgetastic - Doesn’t tweet very much but the twitter account you should follow in 2010
6. HodgeHouse – An underused twitter account which promises to become more active in 2010 (maybe attached to a doorbell)
7. HodgeTank – Returning Soon!
8. NorthernSEM – A Monthly Meeting Of NorthernSEM professionals, Begins again Feb 2010.

And as a bonus, you should follow Wall Glamour as they are giving away free stickers to twitter followers every week!

I’ve been using Getclicky now for about 24 hours, to be honest I signed up a while ago but never could be arsed implementing it, they had a special offer on yesterday which I couldn’t ignore so I signed up and got a pro account.

I’m actually quite impressed, it has the level of detail that Google Analytics has but it also has the speed and instantness of woopra with a few extra features to boot. Continue Reading…

Hodge on the run is going to be a series of runs during 2010 (once a month is the plan) where I will run walk at a steady pace around a decent distance… I will however be wearing an item of fancy dress..

The choice of the item will be auctioned off during the month and the winner gets to select (and sometimes provide) a fancy dress item (there are a few restrictions on this)

Each run will be video’d, partly livestreamed, have photos and audioboo’s (depending on the costume of course). The aim of this is to raise money for some of the smaller charities that don’t get in the faces of people.

I will have a mini site up over the next few days with information on donating and the auction (if anyone with some nice graphic’s ability would like to give me a hand, that would be amazing, I’d also like a hand with some of the geo stuff connecting to my phone!).

The first charity on the list will be The Pace Center, I’ll explain the reasons why in a separate post but  I hope this idea doesn’t fall flat on its arse (I’m pretty sure I will at some point in the year whilst running walking at a steady pace).

Well… what a year… I had a post the other day going through some of the things thats happened so I won’t reiterate, what I will do however is just say Thanks for reading, I’m not going to let the site gather dust by any means but I will certainly be glad tomorrow when I don’t have to feel forced to be creative…

Thanks for reading throughout 2009… see you on the other side

Update :: I am no longer looking, Thanks…

I need a magician for an evening…. can anyone recommend a good / cheap one? Funny would be a plus…

Cheers

Dom

I’m very impressed with the sentry