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The new SocialVibe

by ZombieSkittles on October 6, 2009

SocialVibe has finally unveiled their new site to the public after much teasing and hype for the community.

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The old and new SocialVibe dashboards. Click to enlarge.

As you can see, the display looks much brighter and more pleasant as a result. The new website features a much simpler display of points earned for your cause, and even an explanation of how your points translate to help. In the case of my cause To Write Love On Her Arms,  “100 points = 9 minutes of online crisis and suicide prevention” (which I hate to brag, means I’ve earned over 34 hours. Just saying).
Now to earn points you can do activities similar to the ones on the Facebook application; you do something like watch a video or answer a question to earn points, then you link it on another social network and if someone else clicks the link and does the activity you earn even more points. As a negative, there seems to be a problem doing activities in Firefox.


Above is an example of the new badges SocialVibe uses, which links to an activity. Unfortunately, unlike the old badges I used to feature in my sidebar, these earn points through engagements rather than impressions. For those who don’t understand what I mean, basically the old badges just had to be seen for me to earn points. Whenever you came to my blog to read a post and the flash badges loaded, you helped me earn points for the charity in question. Now, the badges are html, and need someone to complete the activity on it before points are distributed. On the plus side, the new badges give more points for doing activities than views used to, making up for the disabling of earning from views.
In addition, the site displays an influence graph and shows how many points are made from each site you have a widget or SV application on.

Unfortunately other areas of the site such as the forums and profiles aren’t yet updated and still use the old theme, but hopefully the crew behind the site will improve everything and bring a sort of consistency to the site. I’m loving the new style though.

If you read this far and aren’t a member of SocialVibe already, considering joining by following this amazing link of amazingness, and feel it’s amazing power. Also, please consider doing the activity in the above badge; it will help charity, much like commenting here will ;)

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SocialVibe: Changing cause

by ZombieSkittles on September 2, 2009

towritelove One of my online obsessions is SocialVibe. I’ve blogged about it a few times, and try to get on there at least once a day.
When I first joined, the cause I chose to have my points go to (which get transferred into donations for it) was One Laptop Per Child, an organization that seeks to supply third world countries with the means to connect to the rest of the world and educate. To do so, of course, they plan to give each of the “world’s poorest children” cheap but durable and reliable laptops with content on them to entertain and educate.
Since joining two months ago, their “goal” on SocialVibe was reached little while ago. Looking today, OLPC has apparently reached 163% of their goal, so I’ve decided to move to another cause on SocialVibe.
To Write Love On Her Arms is a group that helps young people with depression, self-injury, and other problems they may face. I know a fair few people who have similar problems, and get told it’s a phase, or they’ll get over it. Their own doctors give them nothing more than a pat on the head. The idea that a cause like this is around makes me feel a little better.
Anyway, this was just to basically say I’ve swapped causes, so now the SocialVibe badges in my sidebar will raise money for TWLOHA.

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