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		<title>LG Chocolate BL40</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new LG Chocolate comes with a 4 inch (diagonal) LCD display with a 21:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 800 x 345, other specifications include 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, a Flash based 3D UI, a multi touch interface and AGPS. Check out the video of it in action below. It looks amazing from the [...]<p><a href="http://cash-bandit.com/2009/07/24/lg-chocolate-bl40/">LG Chocolate BL40</a> is a post from: <a href="http://cash-bandit.com">Cash-Bandit.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new LG Chocolate comes with a 4 inch (diagonal) LCD display with a 21:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 800 x 345, other specifications include 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, a Flash based 3D UI, a multi touch interface and AGPS.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-19474 aligncenter" title="new-lg-chocolate_1" src="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/new-lg-chocolate_1.jpg" alt="New LG Chocolate" width="600" height="349" /></p>
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<p><img class="size-full wp-image-19475 aligncenter" title="new-lg-chocolate_2" src="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/new-lg-chocolate_2.jpg" alt="New LG Chocolate" width="600" height="343" /></p>
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<p>Check out the video of it in action below.</p>
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<p>It looks amazing from the video, as soon as we find out more details about the new LG Chocolate we will let you know.</p>
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		<title>The One “Advanced” SEO Technique That Does NOT Work</title>
		<link>http://cash-bandit.com/2009/07/24/the-one-%e2%80%9cadvanced%e2%80%9d-seo-technique-that-does-not-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry West]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Note From StomperNet&#8230; Things in the SEO world are constantly changing &#8211; but the folks over at StomperNet make it a point to stay on the cutting edge of SEO. Which is why I want you to watch this important free video. This new video is from Leslie Rohde. If you don&#8217;t know who [...]<p><a href="http://cash-bandit.com/2009/07/24/the-one-%e2%80%9cadvanced%e2%80%9d-seo-technique-that-does-not-work/">The One “Advanced” SEO Technique That Does NOT Work</a> is a post from: <a href="http://cash-bandit.com">Cash-Bandit.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Note From StomperNet&#8230;</p>
<p>Things in the SEO world are constantly changing &#8211; but the folks over at StomperNet make it a point to stay on the cutting edge of SEO. Which is why I want you to watch <a title="This Important Free Video" href="http://bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php?referer=');">this important free video</a>.</p>
<p>This new video is from Leslie Rohde. If you don&#8217;t know who Leslie is, let me just give you the quick description: In 2002, Leslie was the very first person to advance the idea that Search Rankings could be affected by using the text in links that point to a page.</p>
<p>&#8230;Yeah, THAT Leslie Rohde.</p>
<p>Since he&#8217;s an SEO Engineer, and a StomperNet Faculty Member, I know this video is going to cause trouble. Lots of trouble. LSI has been the &#8220;buzz&#8221; word for years, and in one fell swoop, Leslie basically shows you why that notion is garbage and how 80+% of the so-called experts have gotten it wrong.</p>
<p>LSI stands for &#8220;Latent Semantic Indexing,&#8221; and in 2006, Google filed a whole bunch of patents that led a LOT of SEO folks to believe that LSI was in FULL FORCE and EFFECT at Google.</p>
<p>(Too bad NONE of those patents were actually about LSI &#8211; they just LOOKED like they were.)</p>
<p>No matter.</p>
<p>In this video, Leslie will PROVE to you that LSI is NOT having any effect on your Search Rankings. Which means, if you&#8217;ve been struggling to get Rankings on Google because you&#8217;ve been chasing LSI &#8211; STOP.</p>
<p><a title="Do This Instead" href="http://bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php?referer=');">Do this instead</a>. Leslie is going to talk about an SEO Strategy that you ARE going to want to know about&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;It&#8217;s called &#8220;Referential Integrity&#8221;, or &#8220;RI&#8221; for short.</p>
<p>Yes, this New Video marks the beginning of the SIXTH series of StomperNet&#8217;s famous Going Natural Videos. (I heard a rumor they&#8217;re re-opening their awesome Stomping the Search Engines 2 and Net Effect Journal for just $1!)</p>
<p>If you want to stop wasting time on SEO and only getting mediocre rankings, then you need to watch this video &#8211; more SEO Video Goodness from StomperNet.</p>
<p>P.S. You&#8217;re not gonna like the ending. But you really should opt in and see the 2nd part of the video. And if you opt-in, they&#8217;ll also send you a 7-part report from Jerry West called The 7 Deadly SEO Mistakes. As an affiliate myself, this targeted report for affiliate marketers looking to rank their sites organically is incredibly helpful!</p>
<p>StomperNet KNOWS SEO. I think they want to <a title="Prove It To You" href="http://bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php?referer=');">prove it to you</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Personal Experience:</strong> I am currently one of Clickbank&#8217;s top 100 clients (as an affiliate) thanks in part to the training I received from StomperNet (I&#8217;m a proud Stomper alumni). You need to at least watch their free content because it&#8217;s better than almost any paid SEO training you can find today. It&#8217;s beyond current, it&#8217;s the techniques SEO experts will be talking about in 2010 as &#8220;ground breaking.&#8221;</p>
<p>Every time I watch one of their free videos I learn something, and that&#8217;s what they want. <a title="Watch The Video" href="http://bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/bloggingexperiment.com/recommend/lsivideo.php?referer=');">Watch the video</a>, and let me know what you think. I, for one, am going to completely shift my SEO focus thanks to this free video series.</p>
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		<title>Do Something Unexpected Today…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually I write blog posts about making money online, or about blogging, or about my software project and so on. Today I am going to do something different&#8230; I want to show you a video about how doing the unexecpted can be a wonderful thing. I loved this video so much, watch it, and SMILE [...]<p><a href="http://cash-bandit.com/2009/07/23/do-something-unexpected-today%e2%80%a6/">Do Something Unexpected Today…</a> is a post from: <a href="http://cash-bandit.com">Cash-Bandit.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually I write blog posts about making money online, or about blogging, or about my software project and so on. Today I am going to do something different&#8230; I want to show you a video about how doing the unexecpted can be a wonderful thing.</p>
<p>I loved this video so much, watch it, and SMILE <img src='http://cash-bandit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a collaboration between Mashable&#8217;s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell&#8217;s &#8220;10 Ways&#8221; series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]<p><a href="http://cash-bandit.com/2009/07/15/10-ways-to-support-charity-through-social-media/">10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media</a> is a post from: <a href="http://cash-bandit.com">Cash-Bandit.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This post is a collaboration between <a href="http://www.mashable.com" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.mashable.com?referer=');">Mashable&#8217;s</a> <strong><a href="http://summerofsocialgood.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/summerofsocialgood.com/?referer=');">Summer of Social Good</a> </strong>charitable fundraiser and <a href="http://www.maxgladwell.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.maxgladwell.com/?referer=');">Max Gladwell</a>&#8217;s <strong><a href="http://www.maxgladwell.com/2009/05/10ways-simultaneous-guest-blog-post/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.maxgladwell.com/2009/05/10ways-simultaneous-guest-blog-post/?referer=');">&#8220;10 Ways&#8221; series</a></strong>. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. </em></p>
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<p><strong>Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation.</strong> That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading information and awareness about social causes and issues.  That&#8217;s one of the reasons charities can benefit so greatly from being active on social media channels. But you can also do a lot to help your favorite charity or causes you are passionate about through social media.</p>
<p>Below is a list of 10 ways you can use social media to show your support for issues that are important to you. If you can think of any other ways to help charities via social web tools, please add them in the comments. If you&#8217;d like to retweet this post or take the conversation to Twitter or FriendFeed, please use the hashtag <strong><a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%2310Ways" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/search.twitter.com/search?q=_2310Ways&amp;referer=');">#10Ways</a>.</strong></p>
<h2>1. Write a Blog Post</h2>
<p>Blogging is one of the easiest ways you can help a charity or cause you feel passionate about.  Almost everyone has an outlet for blogging these days &#8212; whether that means a site running WordPress, an account at LiveJournal, or a blog on MySpace or Facebook.  By writing about issues you&#8217;re passionate about, you&#8217;re helping to spread awareness among your social circle.  Because your friends or readers already trust you, what you say is influential.</p>
<p>Recently, a group of green bloggers <a href="http://www.twilightearth.com/2009/06/please-give-just-1-for-the-charities-that-you-help-to-choose/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.twilightearth.com/2009/06/please-give-just-1-for-the-charities-that-you-help-to-choose/?referer=');">banded together</a> to raise individual $1 donations from their readers. The beneficiaries included <a href="http://www.sustainableharvest.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.sustainableharvest.org/?referer=');">Sustainable Harvest</a>, <a href="http://www.kiva.org" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.kiva.org?referer=');">Kiva</a>, <a href="http://healthychild.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/healthychild.org/?referer=');">Healthy Child, Healthy World</a>, <a href="http://ewg.org" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/ewg.org?referer=');">Environmental Working Group</a>, and <a href="http://www.waterforpeople.org" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.waterforpeople.org?referer=');">Water for People</a>. The blog-driven campaign included voting to determine how the funds would be distributed between the charities. You can read about the <a href="http://www.twilightearth.com/archive/environment-archive-2/the-results-from-our-buck-for-charity-drive-are-in-and-thank-you/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.twilightearth.com/archive/environment-archive-2/the-results-from-our-buck-for-charity-drive-are-in-and-thank-you/?referer=');">results here</a>.</p>
<p>You should also consider taking part in <a href="http://site.blogactionday.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/site.blogactionday.org/?referer=');">Blog Action Day</a>, a once a year event in which thousands of blogs pledge to write at least one post about a specific social cause (last year it was fighting poverty).  Blog Action Day will be on <a href="http://twitter.com/blogactionday/status/1216484216" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitter.com/blogactionday/status/1216484216?referer=');">October 15</a> this year.</p>
<h2>2. Share Stories with Friends</h2>
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<p>Another way to spread awareness among your social graph is to share links to blog posts and news articles via sites like Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, and even through email.  Your network of friends is likely interested in what you have to say, so you have influence wherever you&#8217;ve gathered a social network.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll be doing charities you support a great service when you share links to their campaigns, or to articles about causes you care about.</p>
<h2>3. Follow Charities on Social Networks</h2>
<p>In addition to sharing links to articles about issues you come across, you should also follow charities you support on the social networks where they are active.  By increasing the size of their social graph, you&#8217;re increasing the size of their reach.  When your charities tweet or post information about a campaign or a cause, statistics or a link to a good article, consider retweeting that post on Twitter, liking it on Facebook, or blogging about it.</p>
<p>Following charities on social media sites is a great way to keep in the loop and get updates, and it&#8217;s a great way to help the charity increase its reach by spreading information to your friends and followers.</p>
<p>You can follow the Summer of Social Good Charities:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Oxfam America</strong> (<a href="http://twitter.com/oxfamamerica" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitter.com/oxfamamerica?referer=');">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/oxfamamerica" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/oxfamamerica?referer=');">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/oxfam" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.myspace.com/oxfam?referer=');">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfamamerica" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/photos/oxfamamerica?referer=');">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oxfamamerica" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/oxfamamerica?referer=');">YouTube</a>)<br />
<strong>The Humane Society</strong> (<a href="http://twitter.com/humanesociety" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitter.com/humanesociety?referer=');">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/humanesociety" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/humanesociety?referer=');">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/hsus" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/hsus?referer=');">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thehumanesociety" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.myspace.com/thehumanesociety?referer=');">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/humanesociety/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/photos/humanesociety/?referer=');">Flickr</a>)<br />
<strong>LIVESTRONG</strong> (<a href="http://twitter.com/livestrong" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitter.com/livestrong?referer=');">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/livestrong" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/livestrong?referer=');">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/lancearmstrongfoundation" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.myspace.com/lancearmstrongfoundation?referer=');">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/livestrong" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/livestrong?referer=');">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/livestrongarmy" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/photos/livestrongarmy?referer=');">Flickr</a>)<br />
<strong>WWF</strong> (<a href="http://twitter.com/wwf" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitter.com/wwf?referer=');">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/theWWF" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/theWWF?referer=');">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/wwf" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/wwf?referer=');">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwfint" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/photos/wwfint?referer=');">Flickr</a>)</p>
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<h2>4. Support Causes on Awareness Hubs</h2>
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<p>Another way you can show your support for the charities you care about is to rally around them on awareness hubs like <a href="http://www.change.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.change.org/?referer=');">Change.org</a>, <a href="http://www.care2.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.care2.com/?referer=');">Care2</a>, or the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/causes" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/causes?referer=');">Facebook Causes</a> application.  These are social networks or applications specifically built with non-profits in mind.  They offer special tools and opportunities for charities to spread awareness of issues, take action, and raise money.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important to follow and support organizations on these sites because they&#8217;re another point of access for you to gather information about a charity or cause, and because by supporting your charity you&#8217;ll be increasing their overall reach.  The more people they have following them and receiving their updates, the greater the chance that information they put out will spread virally.</p>
<h2>5. Find Volunteer Opportunities</h2>
<p>Using social media online can help connect you with volunteer opportunities offline, and according to web analytics firm Compete, traffic to volunteering sites is actually <a href="http://blog.compete.com/2009/07/07/volunteer-traffic-increase/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blog.compete.com/2009/07/07/volunteer-traffic-increase/?referer=');">up sharply in 2009</a>. Two of the biggest sites for locating volunteer opportunities are <a href="http://www.volunteermatch.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.volunteermatch.org/?referer=');">VolunteerMatch</a>, which has almost 60,000 opportunities listed, and <a href="http://idealist.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/idealist.org/?referer=');">Idealist.org</a>, which also lists paying jobs in the non-profit sector, in addition to maintaining databases of both volunteer jobs and willing volunteers.</p>
<p>For those who are interested in helping out when volunteers are urgently needed in crisis situations, check out <a href="http://www.helpindisaster.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.helpindisaster.org/?referer=');">HelpInDisaster.org</a>, a site which helps register and educate those who want to help during disasters so that local resources are not tied up directing the calls of eager volunteers.  Teenagers, meanwhile, should check out <a href="http://www.dosomething.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.dosomething.org/?referer=');">DoSomething.org</a>, a site targeted at young adults seeking volunteer opportunities in their communities.</p>
<h2>6. Embed a Widget on Your Site</h2>
<p>Many charities offer embeddable widgets or badges that you can use on your social networking profiles or blogs to show your support.  These badges generally serve one of two purposes (or both).  They raise awareness of an issue and offer up a link or links to additional information.  And very often they are used to raise money.</p>
<p>Mashable&#8217;s Summer of Social Good campaign, for example, has a widget that does both.  The embeddable widget, which was custom built using <a href="http://www.sproutbuilder.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.sproutbuilder.com/?referer=');">Sprout</a> (the creators of <a href="http://www.chipin.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.chipin.com/?referer=');">ChipIn</a>), can both collect funds and offer information about the four charities the campaign supports.</p>
<p><img style="width: 0px;height: 0px" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNDcyMzk4Nzk2NjAmcHQ9MTI*NzIzOTg4MzkzMCZwPTEyMDc*MSZkPWR3Q21UQmtvRm1aSjF4WlAmZz*yJnQ9Jm89M2VmN2FkOTNiYzAzNGEyZGIwOTRiODY*YThjMTllMDgmb2Y9MA==.gif" border="0" alt="" width="0" height="0" /></p>
<h2>7. Organize a Tweetup</h2>
<p>You can use online social media tools to organize offline events, which are a great way to gather together like-minded people to raise awareness, raise money, or just discuss an issue that&#8217;s important to you.  Getting people together offline to learn about an important issue can really kick start the conversation and make supporting the cause seem more real.</p>
<p>Be sure to check out Mashable&#8217;s <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/02/25/tweetup/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/mashable.com/2009/02/25/tweetup/?referer=');">guide to organizing a tweetup</a> to make sure yours goes off without a hitch, or check to see if there are <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/08/twitter-local-2/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/mashable.com/2009/06/08/twitter-local-2/?referer=');">any tweetups in your area</a> to attend that are already organized.</p>
<h2>8. Express Yourself Using Video</h2>
<p>As mentioned, blog posts are great, but a picture really says a thousand words.  The web has become a lot more visual in recent years and there are now a large number of social tools to help you express yourself using video.  When you record a video plea or call to action about your issue or charity, you can make your message sound more authentic and real.  You can use sites like <a href="http://www.12seconds.tv/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.12seconds.tv/?referer=');">12seconds.tv</a>, <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.vimeo.com/?referer=');">Vimeo</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/?referer=');">YouTube</a> to easily record and spread your video message.</p>
<p>Last week, the Summer of Social Good campaign encouraged people to use video to show support for charity.  The <a href="http://bit.ly/12forgood" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/bit.ly/12forgood?referer=');">#12forGood campaign</a> challenged people to submit a 12 second video of themselves doing <em>something</em> for the Summer of Social Good.  That could be anything, from singing a song to reciting a poem to just dancing around like a maniac &#8212; the idea was to use the power of video to spread awareness about the campaign and the charities it supports.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re more into watching videos than recording them, <a href="http://givzy.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/givzy.com/?referer=');">Givzy.com</a> enables you to raise funds for charities like <a href="http://www.unicef.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.unicef.org/?referer=');">Unicef</a> and <a href="http://www.stjude.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.stjude.org/?referer=');">St. Jude&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital</a> by sharing viral videos by e-mail.</p>
<h2>9. Sign or Start a Petition</h2>
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<p>There aren&#8217;t many more powerful ways to support a cause than to sign your name to a petition.  Petitions spread awareness and, when successfully carried out, can demonstrate massive support for an issue.  By making petitions viral, the social web has arguably made them even more powerful tools for social change.  There are a large number of petition creation and hosting web sites out there.  One of the biggest is <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.thepetitionsite.com/?referer=');">The Petition Site</a>, which is operated by the social awareness network Care2, or <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.petitiononline.com/?referer=');">PetitionOnline.com</a>, which has collected more than 79 million signatures over the years.</p>
<p>Petitions are extremely powerful, because they can strike a chord, spread virally, and serve as a visual demonstration of the support that an issue has gathered.  Social media fans will want to check out a fairly new option for creating and spreading petitions: <a href="http://twitition.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitition.com/?referer=');">Twitition</a>, an application that allows people to create, spread, and sign petitions via Twitter.</p>
<h2>10. Organize an Online Event</h2>
<p>Social media is a great way to organize offline, but you can also use online tools to organize effective <em>online</em> events.  That can mean free form fund raising drives, like the Twitter-and-blog-powered campaign to <a href="http://crisisovernight.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/crisisovernight.org/?referer=');">raise money for a crisis center</a> in Illinois last month that took in over $130,000 in just two weeks.  Or it could mean an organized &#8220;tweet-a-thon&#8221; like the ones run by the <a href="http://12for12k.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/12for12k.org/?referer=');">12for12k</a> group, which aims to raise $12,000 each month for a different charity.</p>
<p>In March, 12for12k ran a <a href="http://12for12k.org/2009/03/18/12for12k-12-hour-tweet-a-thon-on-twitter/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/12for12k.org/2009/03/18/12for12k-12-hour-tweet-a-thon-on-twitter/?referer=');">12-hour tweet-a-thon</a>, in which any donation of at least $12 over a 12 hour period gained the person donating an entry into a drawing for prizes like an iPod Touch or a Nintendo Wii Fit.  Last month, 12for12k took a different approach to an online event by holding a more ambitious 24-hour <a href="http://12for12k.org/2009/06/24/monday-june-29-and-the-24-hour-12for12k-video-a-thon/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/12for12k.org/2009/06/24/monday-june-29-and-the-24-hour-12for12k-video-a-thon/?referer=');">live video-a-thon</a>, which included video interviews, music and sketch comedy performances, call-ins, and drawings for a large number of prizes given out to anyone who donated $12 or more.</p>
<h2>Bonus: Think Outside the Box</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-132092" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/blamedrewscancer.jpg" alt="blamedrewscancer" width="256" height="218" />Social media provides almost limitless opportunity for being creative.  You can think outside the box to come up with all sorts of innovative ways to raise money or awareness for a charity or cause.  When Drew Olanoff was diagnosed with cancer, for example, he created <a href="http://blamedrewscancer.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blamedrewscancer.com/?referer=');">Blame Drew&#8217;s Cancer</a>, a campaign that encourages people to blow off steam by blaming his cancer for bad things in their lives using the Twitter hashtag #BlameDrewsCancer.  Over 16,000 things have been blamed on Drew&#8217;s cancer, and he intends to find sponsors to turn those tweets into donations to <a href="http://www.livestrong.org/grassroots2009/blamedrewscancer" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.livestrong.org/grassroots2009/blamedrewscancer?referer=');">LIVESTRONG</a> once he beats the disease.</p>
<p>Or check out Nathan Winters, who is <a href="http://follownathan.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/follownathan.org/?referer=');">biking across the United States</a> and documenting the entire trip using social media tools, in order to raise money and awareness for The Nature Conservancy.</p>
<p>The number of innovative things you can do using social media to support a charity or spread information about an issue is <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/27/social-good-finds/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/mashable.com/2009/06/27/social-good-finds/?referer=');">nearly endless</a>.  Can you think of any others?  Please share them in the comments.</p>
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<h3>About the &#8220;10 Ways&#8221; Series</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/maxgladwell" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.twitter.com/maxgladwell?referer=');"><img class="alignright" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/105297748/avatar1_bigger.jpg" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>The &#8220;10 Ways&#8221; Series was originated by <a href="http://www.maxgladwell.com" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.maxgladwell.com?referer=');">Max Gladwell</a>. This is the second simultaneous blog post in the series. The first ran on more than 80 blogs, including <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/12/social-media-change-the-world/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/mashable.com/2009/05/12/social-media-change-the-world/?referer=');">Mashable</a>. Among other things, it is a social media experiment and the exploration of a new content distribution model. You can follow Max Gladwell on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/maxgladwell" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.twitter.com/maxgladwell?referer=');">Twitter</a>.</p>
<p><em>This content was <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/07/14/support-charity-sosg/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/mashable.com/2009/07/14/support-charity-sosg/?referer=');">originally written</a> by Mashable&#8217;s Josh Catone.</em></p>
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		<title>The Importance of Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just completed my first 5k today, and the feat is something that was unthinkable to me just a month ago. At that time, I was thinking about things I could do to get in better shape, and decided to try going for a run. I was in for a rude awakening, as I cut [...]<p><a href="http://cash-bandit.com/2009/07/12/the-importance-of-goals/">The Importance of Goals</a> is a post from: <a href="http://cash-bandit.com">Cash-Bandit.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just completed my first 5k today, and the feat is something that was unthinkable to me just a month ago.</p>
<p>At that time, I was thinking about things I could do to get in better shape, and decided to try going for a run. I was in for a rude awakening, as I cut it short at a half mile.</p>
<p>On the way home I saw a sign advertising a 5k in my town. I decided that was something I was going to do, despite the training regimens that suggest taking anywhere from 6 to 12 weeks to ramp up to a 5k.</p>
<p>But I established this goal and did what I had to in order to accomplish it.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.affiliatetip.com/images/first-5k.jpg" alt="My first 5k" /></p>
<p>Why does that image say 2.89 miles? Apparently, I didn&#8217;t calibrate my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/affiliate/3220189387/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/photos/affiliate/3220189387/?referer=');">Nike + iPod Sport Kit</a> perfectly. Here&#8217;s a quick new goal &#8211; I&#8217;ll run a couple miles on a track tomorrow and recalibrate. <img src="http://blog.affiliatetip.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Similarly, I decided back in the fall of 2006 that I wanted to learn how to edit video. I grabbed a copy of <a href="http://www.affiliatetip.com/sony-vegas" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.affiliatetip.com/sony-vegas?referer=');">Sony Vegas Movie Studio</a> software to edit video.</p>
<p>And it sat on the shelf for a couple months. I decided I needed a hard deadline to learn it, or I would probably never get around to learning. </p>
<p>So, when I was creating my Christmas card for that year, I included a message pointing people to a special URL for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIJG4RQyy8" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIJG4RQyy8&amp;referer=');">a video message from me</a>.</p>
<p>There was no more time to slack. I had to figure out that software an make a video before the cards hit. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure you have some goals in business that you&#8217;ve been putting off. Stop the excuses, set up a date to accomplish them, and make it happen.</p>
<p>Post from: <a href="http://blog.affiliatetip.com" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blog.affiliatetip.com?referer=');">Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins</a></p>
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