A Couple of Visual Changes to My Blog

Hi every­one.

I’ve just made a few cos­metic changes, and I thought I’d explain them because they’re quite important.

Look to the right and you’ll see two new logos I’ve linked in. They rep­re­sent two impor­tant rela­tion­ships in my life.

Grassroots.org. is an orga­ni­za­tion whose mis­sion is to serve as a cat­a­lyst for pos­i­tive social change by lever­ag­ing mod­ern tech­nolo­gies and best busi­ness prac­tices. In other words, they pro­vide vol­un­teer ser­vices to non-profit’s like Where’s Your Heart? for free. They’re goal is to adopt 10,000 non­profit mem­bers and pro­vide them each with an aver­age of $10,000 of ser­vices per year at no charge (for a total sav­ings of $100 mil­lion per year!). In exchange for this ser­vice, they just ask that mem­bers pro­mote them on our sites. Here you go and TIA.

Mad Mimi is an email mar­ket­ing ser­vice that I’ve liked from the moment I laid eyes on Mimi. Their com­peti­tors are the likes of Con­stant Con­tact. What I liked about them so much was their focus on the cus­tomer expe­ri­ence, and bril­liant sup­port. I’ve yet to pro­duce a newslet­ter, but I’ve got­ten a sup­port email back at 2AM on a Sat­ur­day night, and their email sup­port might as well be an IM chat it’s so respon­sive. I’m get­ting closer to being a more active mar­keter for Where’s Your Heart? and I’m hop­ing some of my friends that might need this ser­vice could use them as well, so we can fig­ure out some best prac­tices together. Any takers?

I hope these links aren’t too intrusive.