"Thanksgiving Unplugged" is bold campaign created by nationally renowned etiquette experts Diane Gottsman and Thomas P. Farley to challenge Americans to disconnect from their digital devices before sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner. To kickstart this bold new campaign, ?Thanksgiving Unplugged? is encouraging individuals young and old to download and sign The Pledge?a promise to unplug and stow one?s electronic devices before sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this year. Co-founders and etiquette experts Diane Gottsman and Thomas P. Farley are challenging Americans to take the ?Thanksgiving Unplugged? Pledge by visiting ThanksgivingUnplugged.com and passing the word along to family and friends via the campaign?s Facebook page and Twitter handle (@GoUnplugged, #ThanksgivingUnplugged). Educational institutions across the U.S. have already pledged to ?Go Unplugged? this Thanksgiving, from halls of higher learning such as Rice University, in Houston, all the way to grammar schools in Iowa, with children participating from coast to coast. After Thanksgiving, via Facebook and Twitter, Americans are being invited to share photos and stories of how they celebrated the holiday ?unplugged? and how they plan to carry some of the lessons learned from the unplugging experience into their day-to-day lives. Thomas P. Farley is a manners expert who?s been interviewed on matters of etiquette by the Today show, the CBS Early Show, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, People Style Watch, USA Today, CNN, ABC and Nick at Nite?s TV Land, among many others. Throughout 2011, Farley served as a guest-host for the daily talk show Living Today, on the Martha Stewart Living Radio network and created that channel?s ?Manners Mondays? segment. Among his latest initiatives are a manners column for the New York Post and a program called ?Manners & Manicotti,? which he hosted in New York?s Little Italy, alongside TV?s ?Aunt Chippy,? of Jimmy Kimmel Live! A graduate of Fordham University, Farley is presently at work on his second book, which will address the tricky matter of tech etiquette?from smartphone use to Facebook quandaries.
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