Let’s Do a Little More for Haiti

It’s been almost a week now since the earthquake in Haiti. If you have been following the news you realize that beside the initial relief that is needed, much more funds will be needed to rebuild the lives in Haiti as it was. And as most of you know life wasn’t that great either before the quake.

I personally joined in with some great firends and technology writers in the effort to help the American Red Cross to raise more money with the help of our readers. I am going to donate $100 in matching funds. How does this work…..

Xavier from Notebooks.com started this initiave 5 days ago and it is time for me now to repeat this meassge again.

Doubling Down on SMS Donations to the Red Cross

Today I’m going to spend less time working and see if I can use most of my time for the greater good. To start, I’m going to personally match the first $500 of Red Cross SMS donations that members of the mobile tech blogging community donate to the Red Cross. All you need to do is leave a comment below letting us know that you donated at least $10 to the Red Cross via SMS.

To donate via SMS, just send a text message to “90999″ with the word “HAITI” in the message body. You’ll receive a confirmation message confirming that you want to donate $10 to the Red Cross. Reply with the word “Yes” and you’ll get a $10 charge on your next bill.

Don’t forget to leave a comment on this article so I can send another text message to match your donation. If AT&T has a limit on how many times I can send an SMS, I’ll match your donation with a check.

I realize that some of our readers are going through financial difficulties and that it may be impossible for you to do donate to the Red Cross. If you’d still like me us to donate $10 on your behalf just ask and leave a comment with a link to an article on Notebooks.com, GottaBeMobile, Gear Diary, Mobility Minded, Technologizer, WindowsPhoneToughts, Gear Live, Served Raw, SlashGear or GeeksRoom that you’ve found interesting.

In the last five days many others jumped on the band wagon.

The Latest update on Notebooks.com is as follows: 

We’re up to $11,550 in matching funds! If all of our readers pitch in that’ll be over $18,000 raised for Haiti.

Please read the message below in How we can do even more.

I’m going to reach out to some friends in the mobile tech industry and ask if they’d be interested in helping us match mobile SMS donations to the Red Cross above my initial $500 limit. The mobile tech community spent a large fortune last week in Las Vegas to celebrate and promote mobile tech. If you or your company has some spare cash to match GBM and Notebooks.com readers’ donations, please contact us. Those who match donations will be recognized prominently on GottaBeMobile.com and Notebooks.com. If you’d rather stay anonymous or donate in someone’s name that’s fine too. You can shoot me an email at xavier@notebooks.com.

Current sites and companies that are participating are:

Scott Jordan, CEO of SCOTTEVEST. In the message he pledged $2,500 in matching funds for the Red Cross SMS campaign. Thank you Scott! Please watch his kind message here:

Judie Lipsett of Gear Diary just let me know that she’d like to match an additional $250 of tech blog readers’ donations. Thank you Judie!

Carly Zekzter of Gear Diary is adding $100 to the matching funds pool so we can match tech blog readers’ donations. Thank you Carly!

Dan Cohen of Gear Diary has graciously added $150 to the matching funds pool. Thank you Dan for your generous donation!

Johan van Mierlo of Mobility Minded just sent me a DM on Twitter offering an additional $100 in matching funds. Thank you Johan!

Andru Edwards, the publisher of Gear Live and video blogger extraordinaire just sent me an email pledging $500in matching funds. Thank you Andru!

Harry McCracken, editor of Technologizer and a fantastic geek role model, just sent me a message on Twitter and has pledged an additional $250 in matching dollars. Thank you very much Harry!

The team from Ivy Worldwide, which is responsible for doing some great social media outreach for companies like HP, AT&T and others, just emailed us and let us know that they’re pitching in $500 for the SMS matching effort. Thank you Chris, Geoff, Nick and team!

Ed Hansberry of WIndows Phone Thoughts just added an additional $250to the tech bloggers matching pool. Thank you Ed!

Jason Dunn of Thoughts Media Inc. asked me to add $250 to the pool on his company’s behalf. Thank you Thoughts Media and Jason!

Warner Crocker of GottaBeMobile and his gracious wife Thomasin have added $100 to the SMS matching pool!

Hector Russo of GeeksRoom has added $100 to the matching fund AND shared the plea in Spanish. Thank you Hector!

Amisha, Stacy and Shirley of Served Raw, a new foodie and recipe site have upped the ante another $100. Thank you to Amisha (my wife), Stacy and Shirley, all of whom are fantastic cooks!

Ewdison Then from SlashGearjust sent Judie Lipsett a message on Twitter saying that his team would like to add $120to the matching pool! Thank you to everyone over at SlashGear and R3 Media!

Mike Temporale of Mobile Jaw said he would pitch in $230 to bring the matching fund up to an even $6,000! Thank you Mike!

Helena of Chip Chick is kicking in another $150 for the matching fund. Thank you Helena!

Pete, Chris and Doug of Digital Home Thoughts have kicked in another $250! That brings the Thoughts Media team’s contribution up to $750. Thank you guys!

We might not be able to raise millions like some organizations can, but we can help the Red Cross do a little more.