Posts Tagged with ‘donations’

Every year Blog Action Day unites bloggers around one topic to bring public attention and raise awareness of some of the most acute problems. Last year the problem discussed was environment and this year the topic chosen is poverty. All the bloggers are invited to participate on October 15th.
There are several ways to participate. The first and the most obvious one is to publish a post about poverty to discuss it from your point of view since the main idea [...]

If there is one case when a pitch I receive will invariably result in a blog post on Profy, it is when I see words “green”, “environment”, “sustainable”, “non-profit” and the likes. It is just that I feel we often tend to ignore or just give less coverage than deserved to some of the most important online projects that can actually bring real-life results important to a lot of people. The latest examples that got coverage on Profy in this [...]

This morning a new initiative from Salon magazine debuts - it is called Open Salon and is based on a very peculiar idea to reward users that has made some bloggers doubt its future. Mathew Ingram reports today that for some time now the site has been building a hosted blogs network and recruited over 1,300 blogs in the private beta stage.
What Salon is debuting today is basically a hosted blog network that aggregates the best content from participating blogs [...]

I have received an interesting piece of news about a new success for SocialVibe - a new project that is intended for its users to raise money for charities via social media. The company announces that over the 6 months since the product was launched in public beta its members reached an important milestone: $100,000 raised for various participating charitable organizations.
I have realized recently that we often talk too much about the applications, services or networks that serve [...]

There have been a ton of globally and ecologically aware companies that have caught my eye over the past few weeks, so many that I feel like I'm playing catch-up just to get a chance to look at them all. I had several new-to-me companies saved in my browser, and at first glance, I wasn't at all happy with what I saw.
The first three companies are all Web 2.0 donation companies. Obviously, the success of microlending organizations like Kiva led [...]

Just about everyone has participated in some type of casual gaming by now, whether it's Scrabulous on Facebook, Bejeweled on PopCap, or you are a card-carrying member of Club Pogo. But Rezilio has come up with a way of making casual gaming less casual by creating Game for Charity.
With Game for Charity, Rezilio leverages two of the fastest growing online technologies: online charity donations and casual gaming. Charities can use Rezliio's technology to create an online tournament which users can [...]

I was out of town when I received this news, so it is a little late coming but significant enough for all of us to make an effort on. Tim Ferris, a NYT's Best Selling Author, just launched the largest online literacy and educational experiment ever attempted. LitLiberation, in conjunction with DonorsChoose.org and RoomtoRead, have set a goal to raise $1 million dollars in 30 days via mostly tech blogs. My friends at FutureWorks jumped in as have dozens of [...]

DropBoks. Free. Practical. Easy. Speedy. Useful. They’re just some of the words I’d choose to describe the little website that allows you to have your own private hosting space on the net in seconds. Free hosting isn’t usually this good or reliable, but this, ladies and gentlemen, is one for the history books.
A tiny little startup that sprang out of nowhere. Sweet! Simply put, a very secure way to upload and download any file, provided that it’s less than 50MB [...]