Twenty-five Shesha Tuk Tuks, branded with Old Mutual Foundation supported initiatives, were launched in the streets of Sandton, Johannesburg, offering commuters a fun and affordable transport alternative to cut through the traffic.

Ten of South Africa’s top bloggers were invited to participate in an Amazing Race-style challenge on the Shesha Tuk Tuks through the streets of Sandton. The challenge required the bloggers to complete 10 activities with the help of their online followers. The bloggers were tweeted clues by the Positive Dialogue team, and then had to ask their Twitter followers for the answers before they were allowed to move on to the next task. The clues drove the Twitter followers to the Old Mutual Foundation website, educating them about Old Mutual’s CSI initiatives while entertaining the online community who were virtually participating in the race.

The winning blogger, Halo’s Dean Oelschig, won an iPad, and each of the 10 bloggers were given R2000 worth of prizes to award to the Twitter follower who gave them the most help during the race.

The campaign was received very positively by the bloggers and proved to be a great success, trending on first in Johannesburg and nationally on Twitter. During the race, an average 7.08 tweets per minute were recorded, all of which were positive. Among the top words used were #sheshatuks, @OldMutualSA, sandton and challenge. All of the bloggers were blown away by the support they received from their communities. Bailey Schneider, radio presenter on W2OVfm and blogger of Vanilla Blonde, received so much support that she trended on Twitter.

Tracy Jones, managing director of Positive Dialogue, was thrilled with the success of the campaign. “This was an incredibly exciting initiative to work on, and we are so excited that our campaign concept proved so successful, providing invaluable exposure for the support Old Mutual provides for their CSI beneficiaries and the Shesha Tuks collaboration.

“At Positive Dialogue, we pride ourselves on our original, integrated PR and social media campaigns, and this is a proud achievement to add to our growing portfolio,” she comments.

For more information, please see www.positivedialogue.co.za and dogreatthings.co.za/foundation/tuk-tuks.