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Trick or Treat for Charity with SocialVibe’s Click 4 Good

October 26th, 2009
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Sarah Townsend

Are you ready for Halloween yet? We sure are, and this year, it’s time to take the focus away from cavity-creating candy and onto doing good around the world. Today, SocialVibe launched a new program called Click 4 Good, a virtual neighborhood of haunted houses where you can go trick or treating to benefit charity.

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For each spooktacular door you knock on, you’ll be greeted not by a ghost or goblin, but by a donation that will be made to one of these incredibly worthy non-profits:

- Stand Up 2 Cancer: Aims to urgently move cancer research forward by advancing technology available to scientists and clinicians.
- charity: water: Provides clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
- The Surfrider Foundation: Dedicated to protecting and preserving our world’s oceans, waves and beaches.
- Keep a Child Alive: Provides life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support to children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

Each visit yields a specific impact, such as 18 gallons of water for people in need through charity: water or 1 hour of HIV/AIDS treatment for a child through KCA. After you earn your impact, you’ll have the opportunity to share it on Twitter or Facebook, encouraging your friends to do the same. Each time that friend goes trick or treating, the impact grows. This has amazing potential to create enormous positive social impact around the world.

Take advantage of your time online and get some trick or treating practice in a little early this year by visiting SocialVibe’s haunted house neighborhood at socialvibe.com/click4good.

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This Is Why We Don’t Text While Driving

August 19th, 2009
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Sarah Townsend

This blog originally posted on SocialVibe.

Common sense (and many a local law) tells you to put the phone down while driving. You’ve read the studies about why texting while driving is not only a danger to yourself, but to other drivers. Your chances of having a wreck increases 23-fold the second you pick up your phone. Research has even shown that using a phone while driving (even hands-free) is more risky than driving drunk! Still, we’re stubborn, and can’t seem to resist the urge to multitask, so we turn our focus away from the road and onto our phones. Hello, we’re busy, didn’t you know?

This mildly lengthy PSA, produced by the Tredegar Comprehensive and Gwent Police, not-so-gently illustrates just why we need to break ourselves of this potentially deadly habit. Warning: not for the faint of heart.

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Are we that impatient? Is our safety not that important to us? Please, think before you text and drive. I promise that text can wait until you are pulled over, parked, or out of your car. Take it from me, the girl who has been in not one but two accidents as a result of Blackberry-ing behind the wheel. One text could cost someone their life!

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