Shop, Save and Win Big!

Posted by lauren on August 10, 2009 under Facebook, SnapCMS, Toolbar | Be the First to Comment

Join Jackpot Nation on Facebook!

Download the 2X Toolabar!

The recent launch of Jackpot Nation, Jackpot Reward’s brand new application developed by FreeCause, is a one-of-a-kind community that offers longtime fans and first-time players alike an exciting new way to Shop, Save and Win Big on Facebook!

With Jackpot Nation, you can enjoy the popular daily sweepstakes drawings, generous shopping discounts, and exclusive Deals of the Day from Jackpot Rewards, while simultaneously doubling your odds of winning it big - for free! The application makes it easier than ever to earn more entries with a listing of free offers to complete and an invite wizard that lets you send messages to your entire Facebook network in one click.

Want to give yourself an extra boost just by shopping online and searching the internet? When you download the new 2X Toolbar and perform ten web searches or when you spend $10 at one of the 1,000 brand name retailers in the Jackpot Nation Facebook Mall, you will automatically earn two extra entries! It’s that easy!

So whether you’re looking to hit the jackpot, save on your everyday online purchases, or just have some fun, check out Jackpot Nation on Facebook right now!

FreeCause Mall Team Heads to the Googleplex

Posted by bob on August 6, 2009 under Bebo, Company News, Facebook, General News, Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

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Last week the FreeCause Mall team took to the road in their ongoing mission to partner with even more of the top retailers in the U.S. (currently over 1,600 strong). This California leg of our journey took us to the VIP-only Google Affiliate Network event hosted at none-other-than the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA where we started relationships with the great folks at Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Ann Taylor, and BOSE among many others.

Modeled after the popular “speed dating” networking format, over 60 retailers sat on Google-colored plastic chairs and “dated” approximately 125 hand-selected affiliates (such as FreeCause) to see if there was a potential to form a business partnership. Many were excited to hear about our new Mall tools especially since it represented a start to new revenue from the social media space!

Photo credit: Shawn Collins, Affiliate Summit

Charity Dynamics and FreeCause Partner to Deliver Dynamic Social Networking Solution to Nonprofits

Posted by Blaine on June 23, 2009 under Facebook, SnapCMS | Read the First Comment

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Charity Dynamics and FreeCause today announced a partnership that will provide nonprofit organizations with a unique and powerful social networking solution to drive greater constituent involvement and take special event fundraising to new levels. Read more.

New Application Toolbars!

Posted by Blaine on February 13, 2009 under Bebo, Facebook, Toolbar | Be the First to Comment

Check out some of our latest application toolbars on Facebook & Bebo:

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Friendzii on Facebook or on Bebo

Premier Football on Facebook

I am Not a Nugget!

Posted by Blaine on January 29, 2009 under Facebook, Toolbar | Be the First to Comment

FreeCause, Inc. announced the launch of the new peta2 Toolbar and Facebook Applications today.  These applications will serve as fundraising and engagement tools for peta2, the youth division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the largest animal rights organization in the world with more than 2 million members and supporters.

The peta2 toolbar and Facebook Application are both great ways to stay connected and show your support for peta2 and its mission to fight the good fight for animals worldwide.  The toolbar, which launched Friday, may be downloaded from the peta2 website at: http://www.peta2.com/TAKECHARGE/t-download-p2-toolbar.asp, and the Facebook Application, which has already grown to more than 5,000 members, may be visited by going to: http://apps.facebook.com/petatwo.

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FreeCause Makes Social Networking History

Posted by Jonathan Howard on January 26, 2009 under Company News, Facebook, SnapCMS | Be the First to Comment

Ask someone in their teens or twenties: when was the last time they wrote down a friend’s email address? Odds are most of them won’t be able to tell you. Between Facebook wall posts, LinkedIn profiles, Twitter updates, and more, people are increasingly turning to social media to communicate and stay in touch online.

However, not all of a person’s friends are active on the same social networks. Often fans of one network may actively dislike using others, which leads to an interesting phenomenon - one you might be familiar with yourself. We’ll call it the social network boundary.

For instance, if most - but not all - of a user’s friends belong to Facebook, odds are they’ll tend to keep in better touch with their Facebook friends, and tend to lose touch with friends on other networks they use less frequently. Some users have even reported losing touch completely with friends who do not share a social network with them. We live in a post-address-book age, and it’s simply more difficult to keep in touch without the aid of these networks - especially at long distances. But now, with SnapCMS’s Stories object, social media communication has reached a new level.

For the first time, users are communicating in a meaningful way across social network boundaries.

The Stories object was initially developed for our Pink Ribbon application on Facebook, which benefits Susan G Komen for the Cure. It allows both Facebook and MySpace users to communicate with each other without leaving their preferred social network. The object allows users of the Pink Ribbon application to post stories about how breast cancer has touched their lives or their loved ones. Then, users from both networks can vote on the most moving stories, the most popular of which is periodically featured on the home page for all 5+ million users to see.

It also integrates with our Forum object, by creating cross-network forum threads on the fly, which correspond to each person’s story as it’s submitted. Since its initial launch in October 2008, this has enabled hundreds of breast cancer survivors and their families to connect, share, and learn from each other, regardless of which social network they use. And all of this is content is managed simply, in the same place: FreeCause SnapCMS.

At FreeCause, we really enjoy seeing our objects and applications have an impact on people’s lives in meaningful ways, and we’re always interested in new ways we can expand these possibilities. Do you have a great idea how to fit the Stories or Forum objects into your social networking strategy? As a social media user, what other things do you wish you could do across social network boundaries?

We’d love to hear from you.

Jonathan Howard
Senior Application Architect
Jonathan.Howard@FreeCause.com

Mouse Hunt Toolbar Launched Today!

Posted by Blaine on January 15, 2009 under Facebook, Toolbar | 2 Comments to Read

app_3_10337532241_235FreeCause, Inc announced the launch of the new MouseHunt Toolbar today. HitGrab Inc.’s MouseHunt, one of the most popular social gaming applications on Facebook, partnered with FreeCause to enhance the MouseHunt gaming experience by developing a customized browser toolbar application for MouseHunt players.

The MouseHunt Toolbar provides players the opportunity to check their gaming statistics, earn virtual currency – in this case – pieces of cheese, check network gaming statistics, and initiate the game playing process through the click of a button.

“The FreeCause technology has given us a tremendously powerful new way to engage our players,” said HitGrab Co-Founder Joel Auge. “This added engagement, coupled with the MouseHunt Toolbar’s integrated game controls and features make this application a must for all dedicated MouseHunt players.”

“The MouseHunt Toolbar illustrates the effectiveness of leveraging virtual currency to increase participation in turn-based games,” said Justin Holland, Chief Operating Officer of FreeCause. “The interactive components on the toolbar incentivize MouseHunt players to interact with MouseHunt for hours each day by securing valuable real estate on all players’ internet browsers.”

The MouseHunt Toolbar, which uses a Yahoo!-powered search feed, works with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. HitGrab’s MouseHunt joins Gaia Online as one of FreeCause’s premier online gaming clients.The MouseHunt Toolbar is available for download exclusively through the MouseHunt Facebook Application.