| Good Morning Michigan! Today is April 7, 2009, and we have yet another Tuesday 2.0.
Today I'd like to talk about Everywun.com. Everywun is a web 2.0 social networking(ish) site that endeavors to make it possible for you to support a cause without spending a dime. Here's how it works:
1) Sign up for a free account at www.everywun.com
2) Choose your cause. You have 5 to choose from: Animals (The Humane Society), Education (Books for Africa), Environment (Trees for the Future), Health (World Vision), and Poverty (UN World Food Project).
3) Earn credits by adding a badge to your site, playing trivia, recruiting a friend, or reading a newsletter.
4) Redeem your credits.
I just joined yesterday, and I played some trivia, so I had 164 points to spend. I planted a tree.
Everywun was launched last December by 25 year old Dan Jacobs.
"When I traveled across the country, I asked people what was stopping them from participating in charities and was told again and again they lacked time and money," Jacobs said. "My idea was to create a world in which it's easy to participate in philanthropy and you don't have to part with resources you don't have."
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With Everywun, Jacobs is part of a movement led mostly by young bloggers, budding philanthropists and social entrepreneurs who are using the Internet to promote favorite causes, link to specific needs - such as school supplies in a particular classroom - and raise money and awareness through viral networking.
"Social networking is one of the most powerful tools for a nonprofit," said Michael Trigg, a vice president at San Francisco's Hi5, one of the world's largest social-networking sites. "One of the really unique attributes of a social network is what we call 'ambient awareness,' where by linking to a nonprofit, you create buzz and awareness in a noninvasive way."
There's no risk at all to Everywun participants. So give it a shot. Sign up at www.everywun.com , or just follow the Everywun widget on the left, above the video wall.
More about Everywun -
http://technologyexpert.blogsp...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...
http://houseofvin.blogspot.com...
Follow them on Twitter here - http://twitter.com/Everywun
And on Facebook here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/...
Today In History:
1940 - Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.
1970 - John Wayne, a movie veteran of over 200 films, won his first and only Oscar, for his role in True Grit.
1973 - Vicki Lawrence's The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, made it to the top of the pop charts.
1984 - Jack Morris of the Detroit Tigers tied the record for the earliest no-hitter in a season when he whipped Chicago 4-0.
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