F5 Expo is where you want to be if you want to learn all things social media and become that much more tech savvy. Not only is Malcolm Gladwell the keynote at this event, they have also stocked a very impressive list of speakers to enlighten you with information.
Where will it be located this year you ask?
While your at it…. check out Lindsay Smith’s blog, the Founder of F5 Expo and Massive Media. She certainly is quite the technolgy expert… always gracing us with her fun persona on the local news while informing the public about the trendiest tech gadgets on the market.
The International Internet Marketing Association started in 1998 to bring marketers, agencies and professionals together to discuss the capabilities and potential of Internet marketing. It’s been over 10 years since our first event and our association remains focused on its original mandate – education. Each year, IIMA delivers a series of networking and speaking events hosted by subject matter experts, thought leaders, experts and panels of marketing practitioners.
Advanced apologies! This month, due to strategic repositioning, we are unable to continue with the Monthly Survey until further notice. However, please continue to spread the word for these worthy causes (below post) and support them directly via their websites. Thanks!
Please help the MakeGood Community choose an organization to support for February 2010. There are some very worthy organizations on the board this month to vote for.
SAFE - assists survivors of domestic violence with the appropriate financial tools and resources needed to enable women to leave unhealthy situations (www.newsafestart.org)
Team Will- a community of cyclists of all skill levels and ages committed to raising public awareness and funds for childhood cancer research (www.team-will.org). Check out some of their video trailers.
AFSP - the American Foundation for suicide prevention is involved with research, educational campaigns, projects and policy work (www.afsp.org). Here are some warning signs of depression and suicide. MakeGood found these suicide facts and figures interesting with regards to AGE and GENDER.
Buy Goats for Africa- When disasters or conflicts occur, families are often forced to flee, leaving everything. Sometimes they live in camps for years. Once their land is safe again, CRWRC helps the family to return. Unfortunately, all too often the conflict or disaster that destroyed a family’s possessions also destroyed their livelihood. One of the most precious commodities can be livestock. Should MakeGood help buy some goats to help families resettle in their land? (www.goatforgold.com)
Think about how many times your company has a party, luncheon, catered team/department meetings in a year.
Now, think about how much uneaten food goes into the garbage afterwards.
I implore you all to think twice before you let all that delicious food go to waste!
Last week, MakeGood had a Team Meeting for the re-launch of our website and we had quite a bit of food leftover.
So what did we do? We hit the streets to hand deliver some meals to our less fortunate friends.
We fed about 12 people that day.
This man was really grateful for the MakeGood lunch platter.
Let’s make 2010 a good one… by being more mindful of the less fortunate. Whether they are in Haiti or in your local community - your help, large or small, can and will make a difference.
They had so many fantastic supporters that they completely dominated the board this month… they have over 70% of the votes! Great job spreading awareness for their cause MAKEGOODERS!
Thanks for supporting the youth in your community YESS and congratulations! The crowds have spoken! A financial contribution from the MakeGood community will be coming your way in the coming weeks.
ABOUT YESS
YESS Org provides emergency services for at-risk youth in Alberta as they identified a gap in available resources to those aged 16 to 18. During those critical teen years, there are no resources to help those in unfortunate circumstances to get assistance for housing, food, and safety.
THEIR MISSION
Giving youth at risk a chance
If you want to nominate a charity for February 2010 - please email me!
HONOURABLE MENTION
Room to Read - provides education (schools + libraries) to communities throughout the developing world (www.roomtoread.org)
Their Mission
They partner with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children’s literature, constructing schools, and providing education to girls. We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education empowers people to improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generations. Through the opportunities that only education can provide, we strive to break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time.
————————————————————————————–
WE UPDATED OUR MAKEGOOD WEBSITE!!!
To celebrate the new year and in aims to inspire new companies to be socially responsible we are offering a promocode to our special BLOG READERS.
Our Annual Membership is $149.99, and RIGHT NOW (until March 31, 2010)… when you join…. $50 from your membership will go back to the HAITI relief fund.
“The 2010 Haitian earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake. Its epicentre was near Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010,at a depth of 13 km (8.1 miles). The United States Geological Survey recorded a series of at least 33 aftershocks, 14 of which were between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9. The International Red Cross estimated that about three million people were affected by the quake; the Haitian Interior Minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aimé, anticipated on 15 January that the disaster would claim between 100,000 and 200,000 lives.”
Help Twitter to your networks to get the word out for these GREAT causes and spread some awareness for them!
Thanks for helping to make good.
Shortlisted charities:
International China Concern - provides housing, food, education and hope to abandoned and disabled children in China (www.chinaconcern.org)
Room to Read - provides education (schools + libraries) to communities throughout the developing world (www.roomtoread.org)
Youth Emergency Shelter Society - provides services and opportunities for at risk youth to become confident and self-reliant (www.yess.org)
Alberta Food Bank - provides support and leadership to food banks in Alberta; short term relief of food insecurity while working on long term solutions for hunger and poverty (www.afbna.ca)
Predators in Peril Project - awareness campaign for endangered shark and ray species (www.elasmodiver.com)
“Joel and Danny Nagtegaal have launched an innovative campaign that combines patriotism and philanthropy, encouraging Canadians to buy a goat for a needy African family for each Gold Medal we win in the Games
The charity is a spinoff of Goat Canucks Goat, which Joel started last spring to buy a goat for each playoff game the Canucks won….Their goal was 16 goats, but they wound up with 1,073.”
When disasters or conflicts occur, families are often forced to flee, leaving everything. Sometimes they live in camps for years. Once their land is safe again, CRWRC helps the family to return. Unfortunately, all too often the conflict or disaster that destroyed a family’s possessions also destroyed their livelihood. One of the most precious commodities can be livestock. Provide a goat to help a family resettle in their land; give them a head start in rebuilding their lives.
March 10th event on how crowdsourcing can help NPOs held by International Internet Marketing Assocation (wwww.iimaonline.org)...check it out 2010/03/06
To celebrate the new year and in aims to inspire new companies to be socially responsible we are offering a promocode to our special BLOG READERS.
