Archive for July, 2009

iVolunteer Comprehensive, Semi-Frequent Update Vol. 3 No. 11ty

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

SnapImpact has something we’d like to say:

Ka-ching.

This week, Amazon Web Services has granted SnapImpact up to $5,000-worth of hosting services for the first year that we exist! What this means is, barring our iPhone app being used more than the iFart, we will not have to worry about a major portion of our operating costs for 365 days. BOOM!

Now, an announcement from the development team that actually won’t make our readers nod off: we’ve finalized the beta version of iVolunteer, our first mobile app for the iPhone, and it’s been submitted to the Apple-saurus for digestion and an ultimate determination as to whether or not we get a spot in the App Store. Keep your fingers crossed tight, people!

That’s it for this week. I made a promise to myself to keep it snappy so that I could, you know, actually WRITE A POST. I’m sorry, that was directed at me, not you. You’re great (except for you, Bruce).

Until next week…..

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National Conference on Volunteering & Service – a recap

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

SnapImpact made a grand showing at NCVS this year!  With Rich Grote, Dave Angulo, & Fiona Schlachter leading the charge, we had an exciting coming-out party.  Here’s a quick summary, in interview mode, with Rich Grote in his best fake Australian accent.  You’ll have to use your imagination, but we’re laughing.

Me:  Hey Rich! You just got back from NCVS!  How’d it go?

Rich:  G’day.

Rich: It was great.  Really funtastic.  F’in awesome.  Got to hang out with the Flotus.  You know, the First Lady of the United States.  Brilliant.  And Fiona got to see her rock star crush, Bon Jovi.  Although he was kind of a soft rock Bon Jovi.  Last thing you want to do is have ladies knickers thrown at you in a Volunteer conference.

Me: Uh, that’s great.  Ladies underware and Michele Obama in the same thought.  Didn’t you launch Snap Impact there?

Rich:  We didn’t launch it, just demo’ed.  We talked to the good folks from Volunteer Match and HandsonNetwork, you know they’re the two big dingos in the playground.  And they loved us so much that they agreed to lob us their data as their iPhone partner.   Then there was AllForGood.org.  Some of the Google people and some of the Craigslist people got together and decided to make all the volunteer info easy to get to.  They created AllForGood.org, and they’re already kickin the data over to Serve.gov.  Pretty slick if you ask me.  And that means we could stop focusing on data scrubbin’ and really focus on mobile apps, like our first baby iVolunteer on the iPhone.

Me:  So does that mean AllForGood.org is partering with us?

Rich:  Yes, except we’re in a race.  AllForGood.org has said they want to use us as their iPhone app, but they also gave us a good kick in the arse in hinting we weren’t the only ones working on it.  So our dev team has cranked into high gear and we’ll be launching the app hopefully this month.  And Fiona wants to volunteer to help Jon Bon Jovi get his groove back.

Me:  Well alrighty then.  Sounds like a great event.

Rich:  Fair dinkum mate.  Wanna go grab a vegamite & a Fosters?

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