Wow..this is really neat.. one of my sites, IndigNation.org made the Cool Site of the Day hit parade!
Yeah!
Wow..this is really neat.. one of my sites, IndigNation.org made the Cool Site of the Day hit parade!
Yeah!
Ok, check this out! You can get all of the best of my articles – from here, and The Internet Patrol (with a little Adventures in Raw Food thrown in) – free – direct to your cell phone!
The site which provides this nifty service is called Plusmo. When you click on the image of the cell phone over there to the right – the one with my picture on it – it will take you to the Plusmo site. There you will be prompted to let them send their little software app to your phone – it’s completely easy and safe, I did it myself before I set this up – and it is so cool!
Once you give them your information, you will get a text message on your phone which asks permission to install the Plusmo application. It’s basically a very tiny text-based browser, which will put the articles right on your phone – in a very easy to read, very browsable form.
It’s awesome!
You can add other article feeds to it too, of course, but..well, start with mine. 🙂
Go on, click on the phone on the right. You know you want to.
As I prepare to go out of town to run my first of two back-to-back conferences, I realize two more benefits of having incredibly short hair: 10-minute haircuts, and you can just use the hotel shampoo.
Observation: Women find short hair on women sexy; men… not so much.
It’s an idea I’ve been noodling around on for months..and I finally did it!
I am so very excited and pleased to announce…
The Site for the Cure is a site which allows anyone participating in any charity event such as a walk, race, run or ride for charity to talk about what they are doing and why they are doing it, to talk about the event, and to link to their own sponsor page in order to raise sponsorship funds.
The Site for the Cure is a community of people who all have one thing in common: they are participating in events to raise money for charity. Usually their participation requires sponsorship of the “I’ll give you $10.00 if you walk/run/bike X miles” nature. We hope that you’ll help them out.
You can search for people participating in charity events by location, by cause, or by event. You can also participate in our forums!
And, of course, if you are someone who is participating on a charity event, this is the place for you! Pull up a spot, put your information up, along with a link to your sponsorship page, and let everyone know where to find you!
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Someone just asked me why I did this – what was my motivation, and this is what I told them:
“My friend Rachel is participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, and I just really wanted to do something to help her get the word out a bit better..so I blogged it..but..I dunno..this idea just kept coming back to me..then I saw a fellow at a local coffee shop and he was training for another similar event – I could tell that because he was wearing a t-shirt that said “In Training” for the event..and I told him that he should put his sponsorship url on the shirt… and then I kept thinking about how *long* and *complicated* Rachel’s sponsorship url was – you couldn’t even *fit* it on a shirt, let alone *remember* it to tell someone (like, “Hey, I’m walking for breast cancer – if you’d like to sponsor me, here’s the link…uh..er…”..and this, truly, is the link for Rachel’s sponsorship:
http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?px=3161371&pg=personal&fr_id=1286&et=1dDLRk-e8SEBTdIdJGLzuw..&s_tafId=154282
Can you *imagine* having to hand out *that* link? (I’m sorry, Rachel! Don’t take it personally!) )
So I thought “There ought to be a site to act as a clearinghouse and community, with an easy to remember url”..and that’s how the idea got born.”
So please please, tell everyone – help me make The Site for the Cure a success!
Start here: The Site for the Cure.

