[Nfbnet-members-list] Text Vote for NFB Youth Slam to Win It $250, 000 from Pepsi Refresh Project

[David Andrews]

Attention Federationists, we need your votes!

Text the number 101913 to Pepsi (73774) each day in August to vote 
for the 2011 NFB Youth Slam!

Throughout the month of August, the 2011 NFB Youth Slam will compete 
against other groups and projects for a grant award of $250,000 from 
the Pepsi Refresh
project, and we need you to vote! The voting process is very 
competitive, and groups from across the country are mobilizing their 
members and supporters
to get out and vote. We need you to do the same. Anyone can vote so 
encourage your family, friends, relatives, and co-workers to vote 
every day in August.
Post it to your Facebook page, Tweet it, just get the word out!

The 2011 NFB Youth Slam will be a five-day, interactive science, 
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) academy designed to empower 
blind high school
students to explore STEM subjects. Additionally, this event 
introduces blind students to countless successful blind role models, 
and to the NFB's positive
philosophy about blindness. Your votes will help give blind students 
the confidence and the opportunity to be successful!

If you do not have texting capabilities, visit 
www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam where you can vote for the NFB 
2011 Youth Slam, once per day, throughout
the month of August. Please bookmark that page and be patient with 
the Web site, as it is slow at times. To allow for complete 
functionality on the project
site, users' pop-up blockers may need to be temporarily disabled. 
After clicking the link above and arriving at the project page, click 
the link that says
"Vote for this idea." Once clicked, a new window appears giving 
options to either "Login with Facebook" or "Sign in directly with 
Pepsi." Whichever option
you choose, you can skip to that part of these instructions.

Login with Facebook

Users are advised that if they do have a Facebook account, this 
option is much preferred as it eliminates additional security steps 
required by signing
in directly with Pepsi. After clicking the link to login with 
Facebook, a new window appears asking for your e-mail and password 
for Facebook. After inputting
this information, click Login. The next window will ask your 
permission for Pepsi to access your basic information that you have 
made available to everyone
on Facebook. Click "Allow." If you are not comfortable with this, you 
will need to close out and go through the directions below to sign in 
directly with
Pepsi instead. If you click "Allow" you will need to return to the 
NFB Youth Slam project page and click the vote button. In the future 
you will simply
need to click the vote button, sign in with Facebook, and once signed 
in, vote for the project.

While you will have 9 votes remaining for the day, you can only use 
one vote per day for our project. As much as you may like other 
projects in the 250k
category, please do not give them votes as we are competing for the 
same prize as one of the top two vote-getters in this category.

Signing in with Pepsi

If you do not have a Facebook account and opt instead for the "Sign 
in directly with Pepsi" option, you will enter your e-mail address 
and then select the
option "No, I'm new here!" under "Do you have a Pepsi password?" upon 
your first visit to the site. You must then input a visual or audio 
code, depending
upon your preference or need. If either the recording or text is 
unclear, please use the "Refresh Image" or "Refresh Audio" option and 
try again.

What follows is a brief sign up with Pepsi, with fields such as First 
Name, Last Name, Password, Re-type Password, Birth Date, and another 
security code
to input. After you have completed these fields, select "Done." After 
you have signed up, you should be back at the NFB Youth Slam project 
page. Click
the vote button once more to actually log your vote. When successful, 
the "Vote for this idea" link should disappear and be replaced with a 
congratulatory
statement in plain text. In the future when you come to the site you 
will need to use the "Sign in directly with Pepsi" option and simply 
input your e-mail
address, password, and complete the visual or audio code. After you 
click "Sign in" you will return to the project page and click the 
"Vote for this idea"
link. As before, it should disappear and be replaced with a 
congratulatory statement in plain text.

Again, while you will have 9 votes remaining for the day, you can 
only use one vote per day for our project. As much as you may like 
other projects in the
250k category, please do not give them votes as we are competing for 
the same prize as one of the top two vote-getters in this category.

A few minutes of your time can make a huge difference in the lives of 
blind students, please vote today! If you have questions about the 
voting process
or if you have accessibility issues, contact Pepsi at 
PepsiRefresh at young-america.com.


                         David Andrews:  dandrews at visi.com
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