Like to promote your Arthur Guinness Fund Project on WorldIrish.com? Here's how.

Are you looking for votes for your Arthur Guinness Project? If you've exhausted your friends, Facebook feed, twitter followers and more, I'd like to offer you this platform to pitch your project and see if people are interested in voting for you. Hey, if it's of interest, I'll vote for you. If it means you can make something great happen, then I'll try help.

You can publish here a story on WorldIrish.com that we will share online for you about why you feel people should consider voting for your project.

However, there is a bit of work for you to do.

You have to make it interesting. 

You have to make it compelling. You should be able to do it in 4 or 5  short paragraphs. Why should someone support your project?

You should be able to explain exactly what you are pitching for, what you'll be doing with the money if you get it and the difference it will make to those you're trying to help.

A format I'd suggest:

1. The project name:
   
2. What the project hopes to achieve
   
3. Who it will help or the problem it will solve
   
4. Who you are and why you got involved in this
   
5. The Link to Click
   

I realise it's only a click you're after and this might seem like too much fuss, but, with all due respect, tweets or Facebook posts like this (and I get many) or the ones in the image above don't offer any sort of compelling argument and I haven't yet clicked on a single one.

@darraghdoyle Hi Darragh, any chance of an RT for this #SocialEnterprise; https://www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/… … … #Community #SocialInclusion

It's completely free for you to do so under the provision that I don't guarantee any extra votes - but do think you have an opportunity to reach out to an audience your project may not have reached before.

We have a worldwide audience, with some 70,000 registered members and thousands of readers every month. Our main traffic sources are Ireland, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. I realise voting is limited to the island of Ireland, but you never know - if your project is interesting enough, someone could tell someone else who will vote for you.

As I said, I haven't voted yet for any of the Arthur Guinness projects yet but I'm willing to if I believe in the cause enough. Aidan @Goldenplec did a very good job here of pitching. His will be the first project I support.

I recognise and acknowledge the many prevalent and interesting points made over on Jim Carroll's blog on the Irish Times website about the Arthur Guinness Projects and one paragraph stood out for me in particular:

How many of the projects won’t go ahead if Guinness doesn’t stump up? How many of those projects wouldn’t have gone ahead anyway because they were fishing for funding rather than trying to make a project happen? There’s no shortage of ideas out there, but the ideas which come to fruition are always the ones where there’s huge drive and ambition and the people involved are determined to make their schemes happen, come hell or high water (or funding).

I've funded enough projects and know enough people now to realise that the drive and ambition that Jim talks about exists and if I can, with this website, help you shout a bit more about your project, then I'm happy to do so. People use WorldIrish to share stories and events for free - you can also share your request for a vote.

The rest is up to you.

It's fairly straightforward to publish a story on WorldIrish.com - here's how: