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SnapImpact is Live!
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
After dozens of pizzas, innumerable cases of beer, and 11 months of work from an amazing volunteer crew of developers, testers, designers, media gurus and bizdev folks, we are thrilled to announce that SnapImpact is now available as a free app in the iTunes store!
This project began the way a lot of entrepreneurial things do. A couple of us were standing around talking about how it had been a long time since we did any volunteering. We took out our iPhones and went to the iTunes store to download a volunteering application. When our search turned up nothing, we looked at each other and said, “Well, this should exist. I bet we could build it.”
What followed was a massive volunteer effort, starting in Boulder Colorado and spreading out to an incredibly talented crew from across the United States. An amazing amount of human energy has gone into this effort, rallying around our very simple mission:
“Make doing good easy.”
Now that we’ve released our app into the wild, we need your help. Do us proud. Download the SnapImpact iPhone app, let us know what you think (good, bad, and ugly), and — most of all — connect to the terrific groups in your community and volunteer!
Thank you!
Weekly Update: Ambithasiant Lunar Waneshaft Edition
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
[iVolunteer's project team meets every Tuesday at 6:00 pm at the Van Heyst Group's offices on 719 Walnut Street in Boulder, and they never ask for a plug, Godbless'em. We like to do it anyway, even if you'll never use them. Today's fact: They put on conferences. Not the Trekkies kind or the Furries kind, but more "innovative forums for global thought leaders and senior executives." So, in other words, not me. On to the update.]
First, we’ll take a brief moment so you can stand and applaud our three newest iVolunteerers – Dan Hellman, Rick Saltzman, and Brett Greene!
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Okay, okay, that’s plenty. They’re still noobs, after all. And they will be hazed this time! I will not be the only one!
A lot of news coming fast and furious out of the development (a.k.a. Nerd) team:
- We have a scriplet version of Interest Areas for Facebook.
- We are completing iPhone filter page development this week.
- Dave will complete ipconversion by Thu for Neil to continue WordPress plugin development.
- Dave fixed data feed and is optimizing to load quicker and will push to server this week.
- We have successfully figured out how to encabulate retroactively as this video explains. I think that means we can now travel through time, but I’ll double-check that with the techies, just to be sure.
If you understood what any of that meant, then faaaaantastic. In fact, if you’re in the Denver/Boulder area join our Facebook group, and come to our next working sesh. Especially if you like being more employable, because you’ll be able to learn all kinds of stuff about iPhoneDev, Facebook App Dev, and other things that now are closing $3 million funding rounds. Learn how to make three million dollars from geniuses. That’s what we’re offering, here.
On the BizDev side, I guess we don’t have that much to report, you know, except for, oh yeah, this little thing about us getting the call to be the featured iPhone partner for HandsOn Network, more or less the biggest volunteer-opportunity-finder in the country, and also for the National Conference on Volunteering and Service on June 22nd-24th. Which is totally splendiforous on the surface, yet means we have to do all this in the next 37 days.
Here’s a few ways you can help:
One (Less than a minute): Go vote for HandsOn Network, our new partner, to receive more money from Target. The more votes they get, the more resources they have to accomplish the dream of creating a global, mobile, and instant volunteering force to give aid in the largest and smallest of crises.
Two (a few minutes): Go to this page and enter iVolunteer in the “Designation” field for whatever amount you can give. Our meetings run on pizza and beer, which doesn’t cost more than $60 or so every meeting. Even a few bucks would totally go a long way.
Three (a couple hours): Join our Facebook group, and stay abreast (yes, I wrote that) of all upcoming meetings. Drop in sometime. Considering the fact that we’re now launching different parts of the service over the next month, culminating in a huge coming-out party. If you’ve ever wanted to learn Product Launching, PR, or Strategic Fundraising (or if you just want to pad your resume in those areas), we always need more big brains attached to little beer-and-pizza-holes to sit in. To repeat: We are launching a technology product nationally and need help from anyone who’s got a couple hours to spare! Be a part of something cool.
Plus, we’ll let you in on our time-traveling device. As soon as we get more prefamulated amulite and a flux capacitor.
We’ll be revealing another big surprise soon, so be sure to follow us on Twitter. In the meantime, stay classy, Colorado!
-Josh
iVolunteer iPhone Teaser
Friday, April 17th, 2009
The crew working on the iVolunteer iPhone app have been hard at work!
We originally wanted to show this demo video during our presentation to the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup, but had a bit of laptop trouble and had to switch things out at the last minute.
It was definitely worth the wait. Kudos to the iPhone team!
Check out the video (btw, it looks awesome in full screen mode) and leave us a note in the comments to let us know what you think.
iVolunteer Presenting at BDNT!
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
We’re excited to announce that iVolunteer will be presenting at the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup on Tuesday, April 7th. A lot of great people did an enormous amount of work to get us to this point and we’re excited to finally start showing what we’ve done.Wish us luck!
Rich and Dave
To the iPhone and beyond…..
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Last Tuesday’s meeting was great as we realized that we’ve grown from simply an iPhone application into a website app, Facebook app, and Wordpress plugin! We were giddy to watch Neil Simon demonstrate his hard work on the Wordpress side, all it’s missing now is the data feed! Rockin’ and rollin’ at iVolunteer.
I’m with the less-geeky crew, and we worked on website content (new website coming soon!), user cases, and are starting to develop a plan on how to market when we’re ready. We have an update from our legal volunteers on how to structure our agreements so the spirit of the project stays in tact as we grow, and the geeks talked 1s and 0s. I won’t speak for them here, but it sounds like they’re moving right along.
If you want to get involved, now’s the time! There’s tons to do, and the more people we have, the easier it is for everyone to take on managable size pieces. And if you know anyone at Amazon, help us get the server space donated.
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