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 If you us MSN/Windows Messenger here’s a way to send some money to a charity just by using IM.

I’m supporting Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

jb

“How about to me?!”

No.. but to a very good cause!

 

This may sound like one of those “Send this e-mail to 10 friends and Microsoft will send you money” e-mails, but believe me, it is entirely true.  As part promotion, part gesture-of-good-will, the Windows Live team has decided to give a portion of their advertising dollars to charity. 

“Which charity?”

You decide!  (And this is where it sounds kinda like those e-mails..) All you need to do is run Windows Live Messenger 8.1, and put a special code/emoticon ( in your “name” entry that designates which charity you want to give to.

Here are the basics (cut from Nicole’s blog (emphasis mine), where you can find even more details and links to  information):

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1. Use Messenger 8.1
2. Add the i’m emoticon  to your display name by entering the code of the cause you would like to support (hint: I suggest adding it at the end of your name so you still appear in the correct alphabetic order in your contacts list)
3. Send and receive IMs
4. A portion of the advertising revenue generated by your usage of Messenger will be donated to your cause. So the more IMs you send and receive the more money will be donated to your cause.

note: currently the donation only applies to Windows Live Messenger users in the United States. If you are in the US and you are IMing with a contact in another country your IM activity will be counted towards the donation.

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Here’s the list of i’m emoticon codes and the causes you can choose from:

What are the i’m emoticon  codes and causes?

• American Red Cross –  ready to help, code = *red+u
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America —  providing a positive place for kids, code = *bgca
• National AIDS Fund —  fighting AIDS, code = *naf
• National MS Society —  joining the MS movement, code = *mssoc
• ninemillion.org —  helping 9 million refugee kids, code = *9mil
• Sierra Club —  exploring and protecting the planet, code = *sierra
• StopGlobalWarming.org —  stopping global warming, code = *help
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure —  finding the cure, code = *komen
• UNICEF —  helping kids survive, code = *unicef

Still not convinced that this is on the up-and-up?  Here is the official i’m initiative web site.  (im.live.com)

What an easy way to make sure a worthy charity gets some money! 

Source: Use the new ’secret emoticon’ and tell Microsoft where to send some money!
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I’ll have to give this a try, I’m wondering how it compares to skype.
skype is very clear when it works. But I have lots is issues getting it to work correctly.

Google’s new instant messenger, Google Talk, is clean, exceptionally
lightweight, free of feature glut, and simple to use. (Congratulations to our Download Squad blog which published the
first review.) the program download is
exceptionally quick, and installation is as transparent and effortless as they come. Google Talk is fairly focused on
Gmail, although you don’t need a Gmail account to use it. If you do have Gmail, you’ll see Google Talk display a
summary of unread messages in your Inbox when you first open the chat program, and it will continue notifying you as
emails come in. Clicking the Inbox link opens Gmail. When chatting, clicking an Email button opens Gmail to a Compose
screen addressed to your chat partner. You can add chat friends directly from the Gmail contacts list, and, in fact,
you can add you entire Gmail contacts list with one click. (Thankfully, you are not inviting everyone on your contact
list to be a Google Talk friend when you perform that one-click addition. You are merely listing them in Google Talk,
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Is Bruce Campbell the world’s coolest actor? Daulton Dickey thinks so. Dickey takes a look at Campbell’s new book before attempting a brief chat with the actor without asking about Evil Dead. It’s harder than it sounds.

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Found this at Radio Free Blogistan, this could help you get more exposure for your site.

As the list of sites you notify of your updates grows, you can consolidate it somewhat by pinging the Ping-o-Matic metapinging service at http://rpc.pingomatic.com. It will forward your notification to the following blogometric sites:

• blo.gs
• BlogChatter
• BlogRolling
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• My Yahoo
• PubSub
• Root Blog
• RubHub
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No doubt the list will continue to grow. What do they get out of it? I have no idea.

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