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ANNOUNCING: Global Geek Week!!!

2009-08-03 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Global development · announcement promotion

Hank takes over Sunday to announce Global Geek Week, saying geeks can do unique good, and asks the geek community including Nerdfighters to make two-minute videos about being a geek and giving back, judged by a panel he sits on.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank takes over John's Sunday Newsday; Global Geek Week begins; brothers as go-to guys for doing good on YouTube; Jonas Brothers and GGW gags

  • ★ Hank opens 'It's Sunday. It's Newsday', notes that John, not he, does Newsday, and says he is taking over Sunday because he is a geek for good. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank announces that today is the start of Global Geek Week, a week in which geeks realize how much good they can do for the world. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank says he, John and the Nerdfighters have somehow become the go-to guys for talking about doing good on YouTube, and he is proud of it. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, YouTube
  • ★★ Hank guesses it is because they would rather talk about the world's problems than celebrity gossip such as the Jonas Brothers' marital status. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank says what excites him is people using their brains to save the planet, and that is what he wants to see in People magazine. (playful) — 00:00:29

00:00:58 — Global Geek Week video contest: rules, judges, prize, Twitter hashtag, Thursday deadline

  • ★★★ Global Geek Week asks the whole geek community, Nerdfighters included, to make videos of up to two minutes about being a geek, why giving back matters and how geeks can give back. — 00:00:58 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Videos go to the Global Geek Week YouTube group and are judged by a committee including Hank, Lisa Nova, HotForWords, Guy Kawasaki and the 2008 U.S. Sudoku champion. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ The winner gets two round-trip tickets on Virgin America with a free Wi-Fi pass for the trip. — 00:01:32
  • ★ More information is at globalgeekweek.com, and the Twitter hashtag is Geeks for Good. — 00:01:32 · Twitter
  • ★★★ Hank urges viewers to move fast: videos must be in by Thursday at midnight Pacific time or they do not count. — 00:01:32

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