Join in for one of San Diego’s most picturesque 3 mile dog friendly hikes up the 1,592′ Cowles Mountain with ocean breezes and a panoramic view at the top and help to brighten a sick child’s holiday season at the same time!   All donations go to the production of Holiday Magic, a Gift for Children of All Ages 2010 CD’s to be distributed worldwide to sick kids who are not able to leave the hospital for the holidays and their siblings who often feel neglected.

View from the top high above the clouds!

Wear – A Red T-shirt or sweatshirt or a Holiday Magic T-shirt FREE with $30 donation

When – Sunday November 14th, 2010

Start time – 8:00 AM  – go at your own pace – approximately 60-90 minutes.  Refreshments provided at the finish.     (hikers hike at your own risk)

Suggested donation – $30 to buy 10 CD’s for the kids at Children’s Hospitals. (any amount will be appreciated) Bring a check or cash, or use a c.c. with Paypal at www.HolidayMagicCD.com

Please RSVP at – Jeff@HolidayMagicCD.com with Hike for Holiday Magic in the subject line.

Look for the Holiday Magic signs near the parking lot at the base of the trail.

Cowles Mountain from Golfcrest Drive From Interstate 8 – Take 8 to the College Avenue exit. Proceed north on College Avenue 1.0 miles to Navajo Road. Turn right and proceed on Navajo Road 1.9 miles to Golfcrest Drive. Turn left on Golfcrest Drive to enter parking lot. From Route 52 – Take 52 to the Mast Blvd. exit in Santee. Driving east, turn left onto Mast Blvd., go under the freeway to the first traffic signal (West Hills Parkway) and turn right. Driving west, turn right onto Mast Blvd. and right onto West Hills Parkway. Take West Hills Parkway to Mission Gorge Road and turn right. Proceed down Mission Gorge Road 1.9 miles to Golfcrest Drive. Turn left onto Golfcrest Drive and proceed to the top of the hill. The staging area is on the left at the intersection of Navajo Road and Golfcrest Drive. From Route 125 – Take 125 north to Mission Gorge Road. Exit at Mission Gorge Road and make a left. Proceed down Mission Gorge Road 3.3 miles to Golfcrest Drive. Turn left onto Golfcrest Drive and proceed 1 mile to the top of the hill. The staging area is on the left at the intersection of Navajo Road and Golfcrest Drive.

Talented voice actress Penny Abshire has created the lovely character voice of Mrs. Claus for Holiday Magic!  This year Mrs. Claus gets pulled over by the NPSP, North Pole Sky Patrolfor driving the sleigh a little too fast!  Can’t wait to hear Mrs. Claus response!

Wanted: The finest and most generous voice actors and singers!

GelderHead Audio Productions is now accepting submissions for the 2010 edition CD of “Holiday Magic, A Gift for Children of all Ages.”
It’s a holiday recording to brighten the holidays of the children and their siblings at Children’s Hospitals. CD’s will be distributed in December. Please submit a song, story, riddle or rhyme, anything that welcomes Holiday time! Make it less than four minutes, and please send it on CD or e-mail a wav, aif or MP3 file. Character voices are encouraged however we already have Santa and Mrs Claus.
All entries must be complete and fully recorded for use. The top 15-20 will be selected based on creativity, generosity and theme and will receive artist exposure, be included on the CD with acknowledgements, receive a copy of the CD and receive the: GelderHead Award of Excellence for Creativity and Generosity!

Holiday Magic 2009 was a huge success with great talent and 2000 copies going to the Children’s Hospitals in San Diego, Orange County, Milwaukee, New York, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles, Taos, Delaware, Miami and Albuquerque for the children spending their holidays in the hospital, and their siblings.
Deadline for submissions is Friday October 15, 2010.

QUESTIONS: Send e-mail to: Jeff@HolidayMagicCD.com (preferred) or call (619)795-1740

SUBMIT TO: GelderHead Productions, P.O. Box 3386, San Diego, CA 92163-3386

Thank you in advance for your generous contributions! And if you were on one of the last 7 CD’s we hope you’ll consider sending something again this year.

Through the generous donations of several singers and actors, we will be creating the 8th annual compilation recording titled “Holiday Magic, a Gift for Children of all Ages 2010 .” The tale is weaved by Jeffrey the surfer reindeer and Santa Claus as they make their way from the North Pole to visit the children. In 2005 we met Jeffrey’s cousin Carlito who lives at the Wild Animal Park! In 2006 we met Kate the adventurous teenage reindeer from Milwaukee.  In 2007 it was Peeschwank the Porcupine from New Orleans and in 2008 Rudolph, Donner and Blitzen joined the cast.  The talent last year was once again remarkable and included the addition of Mrs. Claus!  The story line this year will include a humorous run in with Mrs. Claus and the NPSP (North Pole Sky Patrol!)

The goal is to brighten the holidays for the sick children spending the season at Children’s Hospital’s and their siblings who often feel lonely due to the other child requiring more attention from the parents. Last year 2000 copies of the CD were delivered to Children’s Hospitals in nine cities in the U.S. and they were thrilled to have and distribute them to their patients!

The goal is to produce and deliver a minimum of 2000 copies this year, which will be delivered in December. Please consider donating $50 or as much as possible. No amount is too big or too small. Your gift is appreciated immensely!   You can donate electronically via Paypal or by mail… www.HolidayMagicCD.com Feel free to share this information with anyone you know that would be interested.

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Lots of companies — more every day, it seems — want to have Facebook “fan” pages, where customers or would-be customers can connect with them and become part of their online community. But what are those fans actually worth to a company? Everyone has their own views on that question, but now a social media measurement firm called Syncapse has come up with an actual dollar value in a report released today (PDF link). The answer? An average fan is apparently worth about $136.38, although for some very successful social marketers the value can be dramatically higher, while for some less successful companies it can be virtually zero.

Syncapse came up with the figure by asking 4,000 fans of 20 of the top brands on Facebook — including Nokia, BlackBerry, Victoria’s Secret, Adidas, Nike, Coca-Cola, Starbucks and McDonald’s — why they were fans of those companies or brands, and about their past and future purchasing behavior. Syncapse then tried to estimate what the value of each fan’s spending would be to a company, as well as the value of continuing to have that fan as a customer over time.

The key findings of the report are likely to come as music to the ears of advertisers that have been pursuing a Facebook-based social media strategy. According to the survey:

• On average, fans spend an extra $71.84 they would not otherwise spend on products they describe themselves as fans of, compared to those who are not fans.
• Fans are 28 percent more likely than non-fans to continue using a specific brand.
• Fans are 41 percent more likely than non-fans to recommend a product they are a fan of to their friends.

That probably helps to explain why, according to recent statement by the company, the number of advertisers working with Facebook has doubled in the past year. But Syncapse also said that its results showed how the value of a fan can vary widely:

An average fan may participate with a brand ten times a year and will make one recommendation. But an active fan may participate thirty times and make ten recommendations. The impact this has on fan value is quite dramatic. In the case of Coca- Cola, the best case for fan value reaches $316.78 but is $137.84 for an average fan. In the worse case scenario, a fan is worth $0.

As the chart below shows, fans of McDonald’s spent, on average, more than $300 on the company’s products, while non-fans spent just half that amount. Fans of Starbucks also spent more than twice as much as non-fans.

Some might argue that these conclusions aren’t exactly rocket science — after all, one would assume that if someone goes to the trouble of becoming a fan of a product on Facebook, that person would be enough of a supporter of the brand that they would buy it more often, recommend it to their friends and so on. And Syncapse’s results may also not be 100 percent reliable if extended to the entire universe of 500 million Facebook users, since a few thousand users is a relatively small sample. But it’s still interesting to see someone try to put an actual dollar figure on the value of a Facebook friend.

www.facebook.com/holidaymagiccd

HM radio spot – Marianne Coleman-Hipkins

HM radio spot :60 Glenn Hascall

Hi Folks,

Well here it is…the final line up for the Holiday Magic, a Gift for Children of All Ages 2009 CD! Thanks to everyone who submitted this year. We received a ton of great songs and stories and wish we could have used them all. These were chosen based on creativity, generosity and appropriateness for the CD storyline. The CD master has gone to press and the goal is to deliver on December 10th! Thanks to you this project is getting better and better every year. You might want to start thinking about what your going to create and submit for next year!

This CD is more important than ever this year due to many hospitals not allowing visitors because of the H1N1 virus. These kids deserve to smile and be happy for their holidays and these songs and stories will do the trick!

To make a donation please make checks payable to: GelderHead Productions w/ Children’s’ CD in the memo line and mail to: GelderHead Productions, PO Box 3386, San Diego, CA 92163-3386 or make a donation here via  Paypal.

Here is the CD artist line-up.
Wonderment – Bruce Jacobson, Oh Holy Night – Jacob Mitchell & Sharon Farber, A Celtic Christmas Story – Ellie Blair, My Draydel – Jill Tarnoff, The Squirrel Who Spied Christmas – Glenn Hascall, All My Christmas Dreams – Warren Holt, The Longest Christmas List Ever – Marianne Coleman-Hipkins, Legend of Christmas – Terry Daniel, You are My Home – Tina Mosley written by:Trent St. Louis, Christmas Time –  Sammy Rentfro & AudioGirlProductions.com, Latin Santa Claus/We Need a Little Christmas – Hector Navarro, The Guiding Star – Olga Betko, Silent Night – Holly Franklin, Rock of Ages – Jacob Mitchell & Sharon Farber – Jasper the Snowman – Randy Savage, Time for Hanukkah – Mark Avery, Christmas is Coming – Ashley Linton-Fox, Scout Sings Holiday Cheer – Donna Reed, T’was the Night Before Christmas – Carole Richards, Happy Joy Song – Bill Kiesel, The Heart of Santa’s Elves – Brian Haymond & family, May There Always Be Sunshine – Karl Anthony, Il Contadino Astrologo – Vittorio Ferro, and Let it Snow – Madison Killen! The story character voices are: Kate the reindeer – Heather Martinez, Carlito the reindeer – Greg Dehm, Santa – Phillip Tanzilo, Mrs. Claus – Penny Abshire and Jeffrey the reindeer – Jeff Gelder.

Kate, Jeffrey, Carlito, Santa and Mrs. Claus!