WF Charity Site?

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So I've been thinking about setting up a new site where 100% of money earned goes to charity. There are a ton of smart people on wickedfire, so I was just seeing if anybody else would be interested in helping out.

No idea on what niche we'd go after or any of that other stuff, so feel free to discuss that or just tell me this is a retarded idea.
 
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This is not a retarded idea.

I know what niche we should do. Missing children niche, seeing missing kids all over milk cartons, supermarket billboards and if they are lucky in a newspaper coupon section is not enough. I don't read any of that shit and when I go to the supermarket I don't look at the billboards.

So what I'm suggesting is creating an agency that gets auto-approved by facebook, google, and microsoft for missing kids. So for instance if a child is reported missing in Miami we would create a facebook fanpage instantly then put up an ad for a certain radius around the area they went missing and it's approved automatically so people can see.

^^Very unorganized thought atm but we can innovate on top of that idea. Milk cartons and billboards is so 1950. We on the internets niggaaaa
 
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Barclay & Riddell co-sign on this. We're willing to fill the content needs of whatever campaigns result out of this pro bono. We like .Hack's suggestion. Expanding on his idea, does anyone know how hard it'd be to set up an SMS system that people could opt-in to that would send a text out with all applicable information pertaining to the missing child?

So, like, as soon as we got wind of a missing child, a mass text would be sent to same people who'd be targeted via the Facebook ads with all the pertinent details? Maybe target by zip code? The texts/ads would literally need to go out as soon as we got wind of the situation, as the first 48 hours after a person is deemed missing are the most important.

Amber Alerts save 1 in 8 youth who are abducted or go missing. Wickedfire Alerts can leverage the Internet to most likely do better.
 
I'm totally in on this. Would be more than happy to run campaigns on Yahoo Buzz, Digg, StumbleUpon, or Delicious once the site is up to get awareness out. :)
 
.Hack said:
This is not a retarded idea.

I know what niche we should do. Missing children niche, seeing missing kids all over milk cartons, supermarket billboards and if they are lucky in a newspaper coupon section is not enough. I don't read any of that shit and when I go to the supermarket I don't look at the billboards.

So what I'm suggesting is creating an agency that gets auto-approved by facebook, google, and microsoft for missing kids. So for instance if a child is reported missing in Miami we would create a facebook fanpage instantly then put up an ad for a certain radius around the area they went missing and it's approved automatically so people can see.

^^Very unorganized thought atm but we can innovate on top of that idea. Milk cartons and billboards is so 1950. We on the internets niggaaaa
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Great idea. Very worthy cause.
 
I've spent the last couple months working on a site that will funnel 100% of its profits to charity. It was in the Daily Hustle section but I guess I got locked out for inactivity. When I disappear from here in a few weeks you'll know it's in launch mode.
 
I started an online charity project back in 2006, with some prestigious people involved. It's still active. If you want to partner up, or need some contribution, hit me up.

.hack's got a worthy cause there, gooood concept.
 
tencent and .Hack's ideas are not mutually exclusive. Go the missing child route and also monetize. Help find the kid and direct the $ where it will do the most good.
 
Although there's a lot that'll need to get done to get this project up off the ground, we might as well start small.

I'm looking to generate a list of potential domains we can buy for this charity site. Just to get the ball rolling, I was thinking something like: USYPC.com (the United States Youth Protectors Collective), or USYDC.com (the United States Youth Defenders Collective). If this gains traction, we won't necessarily have to rely on exact match domains for terms like "missing children" or "missing children alerts" because we'll inevitably get a shit ton of high-quality links from .edu and .gov domains. .Hack suggested the domain digitalamberalerts.com when we talked earlier.

Thoughts?
 
Barclay&Riddell said:
Barclay & Riddell co-sign on this. We're willing to fill the content needs of whatever campaigns result out of this pro bono. We like .Hack's suggestion. Expanding on his idea, does anyone know how hard it'd be to set up an SMS system that people could opt-in to that would send a text out with all applicable information pertaining to the missing child?
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Twilio can accomplish all of that, but thats not what .hack's idea is.
I think his idea (if implemented correctly) is more effective than an optin sms service.
 
schindyguy said:
Twilio can accomplish all of that, but thats not what .hack's idea is.
I think his idea (if implemented correctly) is more effective than an optin sms service.
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The opt-in SMS service would be in addition to .Hack's geo-targeted missing child ad alerts. The point is to cover as much ground as possible via channels that are untapped by police departments to get the word out about a missing child.

If you consider that the Amber Alert system saves 1 in every 8 child that goes missing by advertising via radio broadcasts, TV commercials, and the occasional billboard, it only makes sense that bringing their ad campaigns up to speed with today's technological advances will improve that number.

Geo-targeted ads and an opt-in SMS service that sends a mass text to numbers in specified area codes is a good start, but it's just a start. Nothing we talk about should be considered mutually exclusive, as touched upon by Uptime.
 
Definitely a great idea. I was exploring something like this myself not too long ago. Resources and manpower (volunteer) are all that an idea like this needs in order to be successful.

Hope to see this go somewhere.
 
Count me in. I currently have ~1,800 "real" friends on Facebook, and can help us gain the initial support to build traction when this idea is about to go live.
 
tencentpiece said:
So I've been thinking about setting up a new site where 100% of money earned goes to charity. There are a ton of smart people on wickedfire, so I was just seeing if anybody else would be interested in helping out.

No idea on what niche we'd go after or any of that other stuff, so feel free to discuss that or just tell me this is a retarded idea.
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This shit could be mainstream.

.Hack said:
This is not a retarded idea.

I know what niche we should do. Missing children niche, seeing missing kids all over milk cartons, supermarket billboards and if they are lucky in a newspaper coupon section is not enough. I don't read any of that shit and when I go to the supermarket I don't look at the billboards.

So what I'm suggesting is creating an agency that gets auto-approved by facebook, google, and microsoft for missing kids. So for instance if a child is reported missing in Miami we would create a facebook fanpage instantly then put up an ad for a certain radius around the area they went missing and it's approved automatically so people can see.

^^Very unorganized thought atm but we can innovate on top of that idea. Milk cartons and billboards is so 1950. We on the internets niggaaaa
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Pedobear and the lasses from the skittles threads would be a great help to the WF community implemeting this noble cause. Just sayin.
 
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