As a blogger, you know that the Internet has forever changed the way people communicate. Today, it’s changing the way we raise money for a great cause. I donate to the ASPCA, monthly, so I thought this was worth mentioning. It’s something I’m proud to support.

Search engine Dogpile.com has launched Search & Rescue, a philanthropy program that donates money to the ASPCA each time a user searches the Internet using Dogpile.com. You search, they rescue. It’s as simple as that. With a goal to raise $1 million by the end of 2009. There is a live counter at the Dogpile homepage showing how much as been raised, to date.

You can participate by simply searching the Web on Dogpile.com, telling others, or adding a Dogpile toolbar to your blog so that users can participate directly from your page.

There is a web site that will answer any questions you may have about Dogpile or Search & Rescue and a multimedia news release with an accompanying video that’s easy to imbed.

As it turns out, now is an incredibly important time to help the ASPCA. Research shows that Americans are decreasing their donations by an average of 41 percent in 2009 due to economic struggles. This combined with a home foreclosure crisis that has left many animals abandoned, leaves animal-related charities in a dire situation.

Together, we can help the ASPCA in its mission to help animals everywhere.

Thanks to Matt for all the details and such!

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Wonderful old metal desks… that you rarely see nowadays. 1857 Cold Springs School. A one-room schoolhouse that now serves as museum of history. Collection of books, old photographs, Civil War and Bicentennial memorabilia. Hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving holiday!

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I love to get much of my Christmas shopping done online. The dawn of the digital era makes this whole process just a little easier! I most always have used the same site. However, this year I am trying out a new site that was recently introduced to me. I wanted to let you all know about it so you can try it out, too!

SHOP.com gives busy folks an opportunity to ease the stress of holiday shopping with tools to help us figure out what to buy, find recommendations, and pinpoint which stores have the best price. I also noticed they provide advice, tips, coupons, rebates, and price comparison tools. Makes shopping so much easier and sorting by price is a big pro, to me. I also like that it had one universal shopping cart to shop from stores I know about and like (such as Kohls, Circuit City, Amazon.com, and ebay to name a few).

Anyway, just wanted to let you know about SHOP.com as today is Black Friday, the biggest shopping day, and you may be shopping. I think you’ll like it for your online shopping. I know do. =)

Hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday. I haven’t spent much time online, lately… but I am still here! Till next time…

Toodles.

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I am away this week. I know Halloween is over but I love
this picture of the pumpkins that my kids made. =)
See the reflection? =)~ Ya’ll take care this weekend!

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