Dear friends, let’s pay some attention to the Spirit Of America Challenge. It’s a sweet little competition between coalitions of blogs to raise money for Spirit Of America. Already, the Victory Coalition, to which I belong is in second place and has raised $7718.
Michele lists some of the goodies that you may get in return for donating in our name. I’ll be throwing my coin in the fountain. If Sean Hackbarth is buying donuts for the first five people who donate $25 or more, I’m upping my ante a little bit.
It’s no small rumor that I do design work for the web; Boi From Troy, Babalu Blog (to a slight degree), and Aaron’s Rantblog are living testimonials to my work. To the first three bloggers who donate at least $25 I will render my services for a blog redesign in the Zen-ish, minimalist, and yet elegant One Fine Jay way. (Take note that my schedule is busy and a redesign session usually takes six to nine hours, but for three people within a period of six weeks I suppose it’s reasonable.)
Dear bloggers who need bloglifts, now’s your chance to get it for dimes on the dollar. E-mail me proof of your donation at publicj -at- onefinejay -dot- com along with your blog URI and I will get in touch with you and schedule a design session. I’m not the best out there, and most of what I can do is evident in the skins of my blog, but what the hey. Dimes on the dollar, folks. Dimes on the dollar.
So, donate now, and then contact me.
UPDATE: By the way, dear friends, it isn’t necessary that the donating blogger be the recipient of the design gift. As long as you and the recipient of the design gift are in agreement with each other, you can donate on his behalf and I’ll go ahead and do it for him.
SECOND UPDATE: It’s going to be an auction, dear friends, bidding starts at 25$, top two bids get a redesign from me. Why two? Someone already donated 25$ towards a redesign for someone else, and I’m not going to say: “more money, honey” just to milk it. So there. Leave your bid in the comments. Top two bids get a redesign in the One Fine Jay way. If this turns sour on me I have Dorkafork and his smart ideas to go boohoo on.
THIRD UPDATE: Just in case you want to go into a bidding war with someone else, let’s try an clarify something. Pledge a donation first, and you can bid as many times as you want. Bidding ends Tuesday, 7pm EDT. I won’t do anything for the winners of the auction until I see proof of the donation after that time. Intienden, ustedes?
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Change this to an auction while you still can. Top 3 bidders get a new design, bids start at $25.
Comment by dorkafork — Apr 24, 2004 @ 3:23 pm
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In other words, the first 3 people bid $25, after that you have to increase the bid to get in, and the last person in is the first one knocked out. Does that make sense? If you’re going to do this, you might as well try and maximize the money SOA makes.
Comment by dorkafork — Apr 24, 2004 @ 3:26 pm
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Dorkafork: dude. You’re more confident in me than I am in me. Would I engage in such hubris? I need to rethink things, but it sounds like a good idea.
Comment by OF Jay — Apr 24, 2004 @ 3:27 pm
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You can only do better that way. Worst that can happen is only 1 to 3 people pay the minimum $25, which could happen as it is now.
Comment by dorkafork — Apr 24, 2004 @ 3:37 pm
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Want your blog redesigned?
Enter the charity auction at One Fine Jay. You can get in now by pledging $25 to Spirit of America, a very worthy charity. Get in now, it’s an auction so the minimum bid to get in will increase. But…
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Want your blog redesigned?
Enter the charity auction at One Fine Jay. You can get in now by pledging $25 to Spirit of America, a very worthy charity. Get in now, it’s an auction so the minimum bid to get in will increase. But…
Trackback by Dorkafork's Cavalcade of Crap — Apr 24, 2004 @ 7:56 pm
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Spirit Of America Challenge Update
Day Four results and Argghhh! is still ahead. Let’s show them we can give more, lots of enticing goodies too. Even Jay has offered design services. I’m tempted but as I only know WP, it’d have to be something to do with WordPress.Total Raised …
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It’s Come Down to Stripping Already
Dean Esmay’s wife, Rosemary, is pulling out the big guns (pun intended). A $10 donation will get you some
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Another Prize Offering
Here’s another great prize… One Fine Jay » Pretties for Spirit Of America It’s going to be an auction, dear…
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Victory Coalition – Day 4 Schedule Of Activities
Donate! Go check out Michele’s Quantity Is Job One post. It’s a a good summary or where we stand and what we are working on. Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest has worked with Spirit Of America before, and…
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VictoryBay
Donate! Current Victory Coalition Offers One Fine Jay is offering blog design services for the top two bidders of at least $25. Ken Wheaton is giving away invites to a barbecue at his house for $20 donors in the NYC…
Trackback by Wizbang — Apr 25, 2004 @ 12:44 am
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I am willing to put in $35 for a blog redesign.
Comment by goodsnake — Apr 25, 2004 @ 11:39 am
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I’d be happy to put in $45…
Comment by Jeffrey Boulier — Apr 25, 2004 @ 2:34 pm
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I bid $45 for the second makeover. Lord knows I need one.
Comment by Skillzy — Apr 25, 2004 @ 10:19 pm
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I raise you to $50.
Comment by goodsnake — Apr 26, 2004 @ 7:24 am
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Man, this waiting is killing me… I want to know if I win or not….:lol:
Comment by goodsnake — Apr 26, 2004 @ 4:53 pm
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$50 for the second makeover, to break the tie.
Comment by Skillzy — Apr 27, 2004 @ 8:38 am
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Happy VBAY!
The offers are starting to get out of hand, but I’ll try and run them down for you. If…
Trackback by Overtaken by Events — Apr 27, 2004 @ 8:50 am
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$60 :0)
Comment by Jeffrey Boulier — Apr 27, 2004 @ 2:03 pm
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birth school work death
And in between all that is blogging. I’m really trying to finish these questions, but life and work keep getting in the way, damn them. For now, I will direct your attention to all the fine offers that the Victory…
Trackback by A Small Victory — Apr 27, 2004 @ 2:04 pm
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$75
– Erik
Comment by Erik — Apr 27, 2004 @ 3:34 pm
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Whoo-hoo! Off to donate.
Comment by Jeffrey Boulier — Apr 27, 2004 @ 7:27 pm
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Likewise!
– Erik
Comment by Erik — Apr 27, 2004 @ 7:53 pm
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Ya Pays Your Money….
Read it and weep Futileers! The man hisself, the Bard of the Blogosphere, the heavyweight champeen of the keyboard…
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vBay – Team Spirit’s Online Marketplace
Donate! Current Offers How would you like to own a signed copy of this Day by Day© strip? Click on the strip to go to the auction page. This is a serious collectors item. Update: Chris has thrown in this…
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SoA Auctions Roundup
WE’RE PRESSING ON in our quest to raise $50,000 for Spirit of America. Here is what many of the other…
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The Battle of the Blogs is mostly Over. The Push to $50K has begun!
The other sides in the Battle of the Blogs haven’t quite conceded, but we have all decided to pool our resources to get to the magic $50,000 for Spirit of America by midnight tomorrow night. So, instead of three…
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The Battle of the Blogs is mostly Over. The Push to $50K has begun!
The other sides in the Battle of the Blogs haven’t quite conceded, but we have all decided to pool our resources to get to the magic $50,000 for Spirit of America by midnight tomorrow night. So, instead of three…
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Spirit of America — The Denouement II
Here are some amazing and unusual offers from the Victory Alliance: Michele is offering to answer questions for doantions. *click* Profession editing for writers from a professional editor. *click* Meryl is offering answers for dollars. *click* Always …
Trackback by e-Claire — Apr 28, 2004 @ 6:27 pm
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vBay – Team Spirit’s Online Marketplace
Current Offers How would you like to own a signed copy of this Day by Day© strip? Click on the strip to go to the auction page. This is a serious collectors item. Update: Chris has thrown in this…
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