The one other blog that I’m writing for for over 2 years now is the Dublin Community Blog. We are a diverse community of writers (loads of Irish veteran bloggers like Red Mum and Roseanne, plus expats from the US, Germany = me, Romania and Holland), all with different interests and topics that we write about – so you’ll get a pretty diverse picture of the Irish capital when reading our posts. And our birthday was last week! So our main man Daragh took advantage of the opportunity and announced a nice little viral campaign that I really would like to spread the word about: Make Dublin Smile.

“We want to start a campaign to make Dublin smile. We hope that this campaign goes a little viral and gets some support from fellow blogs and also some more business around town.

The main focus of this campaign is to look out for people in need. For example, if you see a homeless person on the street, stop, say hello and buy them a sandwich or a coffee. Get their name, tell us a bit of their story and your time with them, get a photo of you together and we send you a prize. Another example could be if you see someone unable to find change for a parking meter, put your hand in your pocket, give them the change if you have it and again, send us the story. It’s quite simple really. If we can get corporate Dublin involved in sending us some more gifts to assist this process, this thing could become a big success.”

So here’s my little contribution. Please feel free to spread the word – ah yes: you can win 2 Vodaphone broadband modems plus pre-paid card. Here’s some information: “Our prepay mobile broadband modems are now half price when you buy online. Get surfing from just E19.99 with our great value prepay modem and enjoy internet access without any ties or monthly bills. Simply top up and pick a broadband add on that suits you.” So by all means tell us over at the Dublinblog how you helped to make Dublin smile – because you can never smile and laugh too much.

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