To do together, Nothing is impossible: An open letter to signers who support my pledge

This is an open letter to signers who support my pledge at PledgeBank.com.

This pledge has been successful  before Deadline May 8, 2007. Thank to signers below:

• mustysky
• jack peng
• 11
• Tom Shi
• Tangos Chan
• Adieu
• joshyu
• Isaac Mao
• ephant
• Cloudiyoung
• bookworm
• xiaoxiaosun
• Topointer
• Qu Yuanzhou

Dear friends,

Thanks for your supports.

The day before last day, I wrote this letter’s draft. I said: “There are 11 people have signed up, 3 more needed. It seems our pledge will be successful before the deadline May 8. ”

I am waiting the last of signer. I guess who will add his/her name to my pledge and take it success in final. To my surprise, Qu Yuanzhou is the fourteenth signer. I know Yuanzhou’s name first time through his paper about 1kg project. I remember the night when I met him in Hangzhou. We have a chat with PLP’s Xuan Weijian long time in Xuan’s room after we had the dinner with many people who are running NPO projects. The chat will be a scene of our future book. (PLP: Pass Love Project, www.passlove.org)

I will write an English book with 15 stories about Chinese Internet users who done unrelated to entertainment but only if 14 other local people will do the same with me.

Is Oliver crazy?  Promise doesn’t come easy.

When I was working for local advertising companies before 6 years, I like to collect advertising slogans of famous brand such as Nike’s just to do. I also like a slogan which is an own slogan of slogan maker: Nothing is Impossible. It was created by SAATCHI & SAATCHI which is a world class famous advertising agency. In 2001, I left marketing communication industry to work for fund raising. Since that time, I have more time to get online and touch the world through Internet.

One day, I met www.nzedge.com which was co-founded in 1999 by Brian Sweeney and Kevin Roberts who privately fund the initiative. When I read NZEDGE’s story, there was a crash inside my mind.

The New Zealand Edge is a new way of thinking about our identity, people, stories, achievements and place in the world. Below are NZEDGE’s two pointers from the bottom of the world, sign-posts to strengthen our identity and foster the global community of New Zealanders.

In that time, I registered my first domain name www.nextfuzhou.com which used my city’s name Fuzhou. I left my hometown Jianyang to Fuzhou in 1988, so I believe Fuzhou is my second hometown in 2000. I like this middle beautiful city. So I want to make a website to push some stories of people who live in Fuzhou. The New Zealand Edge’s website took me excitement. I believe it is an example to Nextfuzhou.com. I also noted Kevin Roberts’s speech at Waikato University, Hamilton 16 October, 2001.

Kevin is CEO of SAATCHI & SAATCHI. His speech called Nothing is Impossible. You could see it in here. Kevin said below:

If you stand for nothing you fall for everything. What do you believe in? What will you never do? These are questions for you, and only you to figure out.

I like this article and print it to my friend sometimes. I also believe nothing is impossible as Kevin, but www.nextfuzhou.com doesn’t seem as The New Zealand Edge till now. I am deeply compunctious for this thing. I made something wrong. I also got same feel in other project. I will also push it in the future book.

I thought maybe many people have same feel as me.PledgeBank.com made a good idea to solve this problem. The project’s founder Tom Steinberg said below:

We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can’t really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that feeling by connecting you with other people who also want to make a change, but who don’t want the personal risk of being the only person to turn up to a meeting or the only person to donate ten pounds to a cause that actually needed a thousand.

That is why I was agreed to join Pledgebank.com localization project without hesitation. We are almost finished the draft of translation. Now we are check on it and test. That is why I made a pledge to say our stories. It is whole new way to do what you want to do. I’d like to try it and share my experience to other people.

Thanks all of you come to here. Some of you are the roles of the future book. I know you play the story. I also know your legend for long time. It is time to spread the story of you and your friends to the world. Many stories are playing when we are writing on them. You could choose one story you love best, then observe them closely, have a part in them, and writing output your experience.

To do together, nothing is impossible. I believe so.

I will go to Guangzhou to join Psy-Business Conference this weekend. Next week I will write the summary of our book.

Thanks very much again.

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