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Use your email signature to support charitable causes
The "Consider the Environment" meme spread across email signatures like wildfire, and now Reply for All is hoping they can accomplish the same thing.
Their service inserts an advertising-supported signature into your GMail or Yahoo Mail messages that supports a charitable cause of your choosing. Currently, there are eight choices: AIDS prevention, cancer research, children's rights, animal rights, climate change, fighting poverty, clean water initiatives, and supporting education. The insert can be customized three ways: display your cause only, or add rotating relevant facts and your contact information.
Once you begin using your new signature, you can check on the impact you've made on the Reply for All web site. They also provide global statistics, and it's nice to see that they've been able to make some fairly significant contributions since launching their service.
You won't be spamming your mail recipients with ads, either. It's only added once every four hours, and you can always click the brightly-colored no signature button to remove it from a message.
To use Reply for All, you'll need either a Gmail or Yahoo Mail address, Firefox, and the Reply for All addon - which you can install after signing up. There is a privacy policy and a TOS that you may want to read, just so you know what you're agreeing to by signing up.
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Geir said 3:18PM on 2-20-2009
Why spread such rubbish?
http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/signatur.html
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Enmi Kendall said 5:57PM on 2-20-2009
Thanks for sharing about us, Lee!
Our users are excited about supporting our causes through the assets we all have — our emails and the friends and family whom we email everyday. And we’re excited to be able to financially support the causes and non-profits that matter most to all of us.
Over the next few weeks, we’re expanding support to include Yahoo and Hotmail with our Firefox add-on, Yahoo and Hotmail with an Internet Explorer add-on, and an Outlook plugin. (Yahoo users can already use our sig without any add-on and just a paste embed code.)
As is already possible with our Gmail Firefox add-on now, Yahoo and Hotmail users can then include other things in their sigs, such as rotating factoids related to their cause or other text fields like their contact info.
We’re beta testing now — and working hard everyday to make replyforall better.
It’s a great conversation that’s been emerging… Please come join the mission too!
Thanks so much,
Enmi Kendall - founder
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cjw said 2:17PM on 2-28-2009
Nice post. Very cool! I'm going to take these into consideration. I just started using outlook, and got Outlook Track-It as a plugin. So now I can be reminded to send followup emails, via it's flagging feature. The site is http://www.outlooktrackit.com if you want that one, too.
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