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i’m Making a Difference

Sarah Perez article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too.
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IM for a cause! Join the i’m Initiative from Windows Live Messenger to help out your favorite cause. Every time you send an IM, a portion of Live Messenger’s advertising revenue goes to one of the program’s partners, which include: the American Red Cross, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Humane Society of the United States, the National AIDS Fund, the National MS Society, ninemillion.org, the Sierra Club, StopGlobalWarming.org, Suss G. Komen for the Cure, and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Each organization will receive a minimum of $100,000 and there is no maximum! To get involved, all you have to do is paste the text code corresponding to the organization of your choice next to your display name in Live Messenger (click on your name and go to options). Here’s the list of codes:

*red+u - American Red Cross*bgca - Boys & Girls Clubs of America*hsus - Humane Society of [...]

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Add Windows Live Messenger to Your Blog

Major Nelson article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too.
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The Windows Live Messenger Team posted on their blog about an easy new way to create an IM button to put on your website, blog, or in your email signature. To get started, click here and begin to customize your button. You can pick different shapes, colors, taglines, and then you enter in your Live ID and snag the code for your button. The button code works on Spaces, Blogger, Facebook, MySpace, Outlook 2003/2007, MSN Hotmail/Windows Live Hotmail/Windows Live Mail beta or it can be added to your website. When your friends and family click on the button, you are automatically added to their contact list. Cool.

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