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CUnet Gets Burly For Movember

Posted by Jeff Berg on December 6th, 2011

The CUnet Staches Team
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Jeff Herz
Director of Internal Operations		 philip
Ray Philip
Senior SEO Strategist		 counter
Ben Counter
Director of Telephony Products
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Gianfranco Origliato
Business/Technical Analyst for Peterson’s Interactive		 donaldson
Jay Donaldson
Senior Director of Application Development		 pierce
Tabitha Pierce
Senior Affiliate Manager

Well, it’s been an exciting month here at CUnet. Beyond our fabulously amazing team of performance marketing specialists, CUnet also secretly harbored a team of manly, hirsute individuals that opted to support Movember, a month-long charity event where men (and some women) grow mustaches to help raise funds for men’s health education and research. In order to help out the CUnet Staches team, our employees engaged in increasingly outrageous behavior to help drive the fundraising goals, including eating a head of lettuce in less than 15 minutes and ingesting a ghost pepper, which was the hottest pepper in the world in 2007 according to the Guinness Book of World Records. We also live streamed some of these events from the office so that our clients could watch.

Ultimately, the CUnet Staches team raised over $4,300 for charity and placed in the top 80 Movember teams with under 10 members.

CUnet Email Strategist Alex Romeo was conned convinced to eat a head of lettuce in 15 minutes or less if we raised $50 in the hour after we came up with the idea and posted it on the company social network.
Feeling bad after egging on Alex to eat the head of lettuce, CUnet Social Media Strategist Jeff Berg pledged to eat a ghost pepper, the 2007 Guinness Book of World Record’s hottest pepper in the world (and a potential ingredient in Indian riot control grenades), if the CUnet Movember team managed to raised another $100 between 11/28 and 11/30. We raised over $800, including a donation from a client, so we decided to stream the pepper eating live from our offices so the world could watch.

Interested in joining the party? Think you’ve got the gastrointestinal fortitude? Working at CUnet has benefits beyond just the chance for social media immortality. CUnet has openings at our offices in New Jersey, Colorado, Nebraska and Toronto. Whether you’re looking for a role in IT, account management or sales, we’ve probably got something for you… if you dare!

About Jeff Berg

Jeff serves as the Social Media Strategist with CUnet. With more than seven years of experience, Jeff uses his social media expertise to help schools create cohesive, school-wide social media policies, manage their online reputation and, above all, foster meaningful, personal dialogues with current and future students. In his spare time, you can probably find him tinkering around in his den, building odd electronics projects that incorporate social media data with home decor.

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