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Posted: Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 4:58 pm. Filed in Widgets.
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SocialVibe

by Raanan Bar-Cohen

You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can.

We’ve teamed up with SocialVibe, and now by adding the SocialVibe widget to your blog, you are able to earn donations for the charity of your choice by getting sponsored by a brand that appeals to you.

Each time someone visits your blog and engages with your brand (by rating a video, for example), you’re making a difference. That impact is immediately visible on your badge, i..e., ‘My blog has provided 63 cups of clean water for people in need.’

The money donated comes from your brand, so you and your readers never have to pay a dime.
In addition to earning donations, you’ll also get feedback from your charity about the difference they’re making thanks to you. By clicking the charity logo in the badge, you can find information about your cause and view real-time goal progress.

Setup is easy and only takes a few clicks – just go to Appearance->Widgets in your dashboard, add the SocialVibe widget and pick a cause and a charity. For more details you can find documentation in our support area. If you change your mind about your sponsor or cause, you can easily make adjustments by visiting your widget dashboard.

If you are running a self-hosted WordPress blog, be sure to grab the SocialVibe plugin.

With SocialVibe, our community can pool our individual influences to create positive change in the world.


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249 Comments

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  1. mamutka

    I’m part of it and I’m proud of it!:D

  2. David

    Hi!
    I have a question about this new widget.
    The first time I clicked on help now! it’s free button I saw the video, I rated it, and then a new window appears let me put my name and a little comment. Now, if I do the same process I can’t see the comments, I rate again and click on next, but the video is still there and I can’t see any comment :(

    Any suggestion? Thanks!

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  4. fireinyoureyes

    hope I can help PETA2 thanks

  5. MJae

    Wow! This is nice…

  6. imnotned

    Nice

  7. egomaniac

    I haven’t found cause that best suit my interest. Too few options…

  8. niekmilder

    great news, ill get on it ASAP. Busy now when i get home i will be donating cups of water! :D

  9. Jfk

    thanks, it works fine
    As usual your job is perfect :)
    ‘bye
    J

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  11. spiralofhope

    Curious. I wonder if my preferred charities would be listed.

  12. Liza

    This is great!

  13. silverbackstrategies

    That’s Awesome!!!

  14. spiralofhope

    Ugh, nevermind. I withdraw all interest. socialvibe.com is an unusable website. I can’t even get a list of causes. They make me wade through flash nonsense, then clicking links, then back, then clicking next, then clicking a link, etc. Total garbage.

  15. justalittlepiece

    I’m very excited!

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  17. a1130

    Awesome! I’m going to add that widget right now, this instant!!!! HAHAHA!!!!

  18. Rana

    I love the idea!! Feels quite good being able to help people :)

  19. ide97

    my first time of blogging..i think it looks great.

  20. jayromeisip

    awesome idea dude

  21. Steve

    It would be easier if the SocialVibe site was easier to navigate — Why not post a simple list of sponsors and causes that one can scroll down?

    It is far too graphics-intensive — quite unnecessarily so — so that those of us with bandwidth caps have to waste costly bandwidth looking at brands and causes we have never heard of to come to ones that interest us.

    I gave up after the first 30 sponsors and the first 10 causes.

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  23. Owais Ahmed

    Thats a good idea and might motivate to newer ones..

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  25. N60storm4

    Awesome idea Thanks!

  26. hubbibie

    it is worthy cause if anything that all of us do can contribute to make the world a better place to live.

  27. elmaganon

    good idea

  28. worldofmorrow

    this is great! now i can help people by blogging :D

  29. sbedard

    I did add your widget in my blog…although my blog is written in french…I like the idea and I wish to convice my reader to use it (not to mention there is no branded charity cause appealing to us)… That being said there is big : BUT…BUT….cause once you get in the sponsor window, there is no indication on how to exit without having people quitting my blog. I am not ready to loose them once they are in… I think you should add a BIG X to close and let my viewers come back where they were before opening the window. The window is so big that we don’t even see the background of my blog. Not a chance, they’ll figure out to press in my blog space to return. If this is not corrected, I will take it away because it is not the way i wish to help by loosing my readers.

    Hope you correct the issue…

    Sylvie …Montreal’s french blogger

  30. reubenite

    i am elated to begin writing, at first i was not sure what blogging was but now the road is clearer.
    Brighter days are coming!! life is what you make it…

  31. tspoon

    I added the widget three days ago, and got the Alert:Misconfigured message. I contacted support, and still haven’t gotten it fixed or heard back. Can someone help me, please?

  32. livelovelifefashion

    iLike =) <3

  33. menegat

    Im in

  34. comodoronew

    Yeah! thanks

  35. sbedard

    Try showtime…I can guarantee you that there is no “close” button neither in the right corner or the “wrong corner”…Maybe a quality insurance step to add in the acceptance of an advertising…

    Thanks for the corrections

    Sylvie

    • Raanan Bar-Cohen

      sbedard — just tried Showtime and the “close” button is in fact present in the upper right corner. The window they use is a bit large, and we’ve mentioned that to SocialVibe, so you may have to scroll a bit to see the “close” button depending on your screen’s resolution.

  36. An alien Earthling

    A great feature! Thanks, amigos!

  37. Jeff

    I am usually skeptical about companies that claim to give anything away for free but on the chance that it is legit, I will add it to my page :)

  38. kittilia

    This is a very cool idea. I’ll be sure to put it on my blog.

  39. wahyu am

    nice job :lol:

  40. andyouweresaying

    Thank you greatly! As a non-profit Blogger whom never uses PayPal only direct site URL’s to insure monies
    winds up 100% in the hands that require it. I am truly grateful that for some may be an,” oh yep, uh huh”, but to IVAW, VFP, FreeGaza , any Persian student groups and about , hmm a Gazillion others in need. Thank you thank you thank you.
    Peace
    Rhoda

  41. andersen130490

    good and cool,,,you make one step to good future in social relation in the blog’s world…. i appreciate with you….

  42. oemarhadie

    Thanks for post

  43. barrycyrus

    NICE. :)

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  46. Yasir Imran

    Thank you
    I will try that

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  48. artambience

    Good idea!! I have added the widget!

  49. superunique

    hi guys, it looks cool to be around….!!

  50. eurosecurity1

    cool

  51. tradetimes

    Something worthwhile that could be replicated by other popular portals/sites.

  52. satyask

    TNT has donated 343 gallons of clean water to children, thanks to my adding this to my blog and testing the feature.
    Its mindboggling. So, instead of paying advertisers, they pay the charity and everyone except the media that would have carried the ad.. should be happy?

    I feel happy that some children are getting clean water…. due to this… I felt a little powerful in face of the global water issue.. as opposed to helpless…

  53. bjoernoliver

    Very good indeed :-D

  54. athan humol

    fantastecular idea!

  55. Cross

    Adding right now :)

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  57. Michael

    Love the concept, I picked, “Standing Up For Cancer” for my SocialVibe.

  58. astoldby

    Nice!

  59. boardingschoolcapers

    Another fantastic innovation. Well done, WordPress.

  60. bombounyil

    Very cool. Thanks a lot for this!

  61. peaceandchange

    I LOVE SocialVibe! I’m so glad you posted this! Thanks and God bless!

  62. itzel1324

    i joined wordpress just because of this.

  63. MethodGraphic

    Realmente impresionante, una idea fantastica y lo mejor nosotros como usuarios y bloggers no pagamos nada!
    Gracias por la info de seguro revisare detenidamente la informacion adicional.

  64. A. Howard

    So I’ve added this to my blog which uses the contempt theme – it’s a great initiative but unfortunately the widget doesn’t seem to fit in my sidebar and some of it is lost.

    Any way to ammend this?

  65. maukonen

    Really good widget !!!
    I’m impressed !

    One question,
    if you check out the one I have placed on my blog,http://maukonen.wordpress.com/,
    the white text is not very visible.

    Can it be changed into a better readebla colour please?

  66. suryalubis

    thanks for all>>>>>>>>>>>

  67. solangelefay

    Sounds really great!

  68. Vince

    Has anyone else had their donations collected (in my case minutes of online support) reset to zero?

    On Saturday I had collected 20 minutes worth and by Sunday I was back to one minute – even today, though I know family and friend’s have clicked on it and rated the video etc.

    • Raanan Bar-Cohen

      Vince — The original charity you selected actually reached their goal and started a new one. The badge shows the impact for the new current goal so it looked like it reset to 0, but it’s just a new goal. We are working with SocialVibe to make this clearer – as it’s a bit confusing right now.

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  70. miamisaint

    Nice Idea!

  71. Ojrak

    Awwwmazing! Thanks guys!

  72. katyallgeyer

    This is great feng shui for all concerned!

  73. Hugo Silva

    Keep up this great work!

  74. Admin

    It says “misconfigured”?

  75. mbj

    cool idea ^^

  76. ronz001

    Does it really works?
    if yes… then it’s awesome!!

  77. shilpi10

    Ok i ll also do really its a very nice idea

  78. abusyafiq

    great creation, making me to get new spirit in blogging..

  79. Taufik

    cool stuff

  80. sansinto

    hmmm, this is great! Only by blogging, we can help someone else, i just wonder is it work in asia? or just in western country?

    Keep fighting 4 the right and our rights!

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  82. melostar

    inspiring!

  83. beautifullywired

    Amazing! I wish more offered this!

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  85. RiZzUs

    Very nice! goodgood thanks!

  86. freshaffect

    i’ve added the widget to my wordpress page but when i click on it i get the following message:
    VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of drawBackground in com.socialvibe.facebook.view.ui.FBButtonNext.
    at flash.display::MovieClip/nextFrame()
    at mx.core::FlexModuleFactory/deferredNextFrame()
    at mx.core::FlexModuleFactory/update()
    at mx.core::FlexModuleFactory/moduleCompleteHandler()
    what do i do?

  87. panamamary

    I love this and I am also adding 1 % For the Planet to my Blog surely I can give 1% of what I earn to help others.

  88. Rafael Ramos

    Awesome!

  89. murderousthoughts

    Awesome! thank you so much for this!!

  90. cafe0sua

    that’s great!

  91. albertjoko

    It’s a great idea! It’s world community be loves!!!

  92. metrochannel

    Sorry for being so negative, but the issue with charities is not the input, it is the transmission. If the transmission remains poor, we are doing a disservice by enhancing the input.

  93. Monsta

    Thanks for giving us another opportunity to help other people.

  94. italianheart92

    Wow this is a really good idea! I can’t wait to try it out! :)

  95. stageelites

    I’m so inspired by good ideas like this one. Going to check it out right now!

  96. Bùi Đức Hạnh

    It’s wonderful

  97. jobinnigeria

    Nice widget,Am going to check it out…

  98. fromsheila

    Brilliant!

  99. cenya95

    good idea !