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SocialVibe is a new service that gives people with online influence, whether bloggers, website designers or the social network butterfly, an opportunity to use that influence to make a real difference. All you have to do is sign up, pick a cause, choose a sponsor and place your badge. Once this is complete, you start earning points towards donations towards the charity of your choosing and various sponsor perks.
I really like the idea behind SocialVibe, so I have applied a badge to my Facebook profile. I’m going to walk you through that process to show you how easy it is to set up this service.
Picking a cause should be your first step on SocialVibe. It is in this step that you determine what great organization all of your Internet fame is going to help out. There is a fairly wide range of causes to choose from. I decided to make my cause the environment, as this is an issue that I really care about. All of the causes are great, so no matter which one you pick you will be doing a great service by helping out that charity.
After you pick your cause, you must select a sponsor that will help you raise money for that cause. This sponsor is also responsible for some the possible perks you will receive. Most of the perks are just the opportunity to be placed within a drawing for lots of different cool prizes, but there are other perks that come up from time to time.
There are several sponsor categories to choose from that range from Tech & Gadgets to Food & Beverage. You can pick any sponsor, but you will probably want to pick a sponsor who you are most interested in winning perks from. With that in mind, I have chosen XBOX as my sponsor. I must say I am a 360 fan, and any free stuff for a 360 is good stuff.
The next step is to pick one of your social profiles to display whatever sponsor badge you picked. In addition to several social networks, you can get the HTML code and just post it to your blog or website if you prefer. I decided to post my badge on my Facebook profile, since I don’t have an account on any of the other sites.
Now that you are ready to start earning points, let’s learn how. Points can be earned several ways. You earn points for just having your badge posted, but you will earn more points if people actually see the badge. This means you should probably post it on your most popular profile in order to maximize your point total.
Points are also earned by filling out parts of your profile and updating your SocialVibe profile on a daily basis. The more points you have the more you give to your cause and the better chance you have of winning some cool prizes from either your sponsor or SocialVibe.
For me, it is really refreshing to see the power of the Internet and social networking harnessed to do some good. If you like the idea of SocilVibe as well, come join me. Does anyone out there know of any other great online services that give you a way to give back?
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That’s such a great idea, thanks for sharing Kyle. I tried adding it now, so I could put it on my SU and Digg, but noticed that it was only avail. for FB, Bebo, etc… Too bad! I hope that they can increase the number of networks to choose from soon!
I agree. I think that adding other social networks would be a huge plus!
Neat idea, I have added it to my site.
Shame they don’t have any UK based charities…
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