Shaun Groves
A lot of you have placed a Compassion Bloggers Dominican Republic widget in the sidebar of your blog. Muchas gracias. As of a few minutes ago I changed the look of those widgets and made them all link to the Dominican Trip page over at CompassionBloggers.com. The widget has a little countdown on it ticking down to the day of our departure.
This widget makes it easy for you and your blog’s readers to spread the word about the trip (click the “share” button to share it on your blog, facebook or myspace profile, for example). But it also allows readers all over the web to read all of our blog posts with one click. Every post, video and picture will be archived over on the Dominican Trip page the widgets link to. Easy shmeezy lemon squeezy.
If you don’t already have one of these widgets on your blog (all the cool kids are doing it) now’s your chance to help us out. Just pick the size you need below. And let me know if there’s another size you could use.
150 pixels wide:
200 pixels wide:
Thanks for the help, everybody. Together we’re about to release hundreds of kids from poverty.
shaunfan says:
Love the countdown. It’s been my pleasure to include the widget. Best wishes and God Bless! Kevin
Anne Jackson says:
185 would be fantastic
boomama says:
Got it. Thanks, Shaw-awn.
noelle says:
Hey Shaun, I don’t know if you’d know the answer, but when I added it to facebook, the countdown doesn’t continue… even when you refresh the page. Is there a way to fix this?
Shaun Groves says:
Facebook places restrictions on flash stuff. It creates an image (sometimes) blurry of the application you embed. So, what you have to do to view the countdown is click it once. That should activate the flash application (aka the widget). Make sense? I think I just confused myself.
Shaun Groves says:
Um, on second thought, I have no idea what facebook is doing to this thing. They’ve change facebook you know? And what it used to do with widgets is not what it’s doing with this one. Weird. Anybody know of a fix?
Noelle says:
Hey Shaun, thanks for your help. I clicked it (who knew it could be so simple?) and it worked. The countdown is working now.
Mike Ellis, Church for Men says:
Can we please oh please have a widget that will benefit the the destitute, the poor, the dying, the homeless, the orphans, the widows, etc. in this country, across the street, next door, across the street from our churches. Geesh, why oh why is so much time spent on missions to other countries and nearly no one, including the church, helping the least of these in our own neighborhood.
Rant done.
Peace out.
Shaun Groves says:
Thanks for the constructive contribution to the conversation, Mike. (…I reply sarcastically, having spent the afternoon stocking shelves at a food pantry run by a church right here in the US of A.)
Gary Bowrey says:
One time when I was talking to a group of friends at my church about the child that my wife and I sponsor from the Phillipines, I got to hear a similar rant from a gentleman about how there was needy, starving people right here in the good old USA that needed our help. I told him that he was right and asked him what he was doing about it. He replied “well, nothing”. If all of us took the time to help out one other person, we could change the whole world.
Lisa Kae says:
My husband and I recently traveled to DR for work, and had the chance to visit the little girl we have been supporting. What an eye opening experience… I included the link to a slideshow of images that we captured while we were there just a week ago. I can’t wait to hear what all the bloggers have to share. Thanks so much for what you’re doing, it’s invaluable.
Kelly @ Love Well says:
Thanks for the heads up on the widget, Wubbzy. I mean, Shaun. It’s been added.
Shelley says:
Thanks for the small widget, and new design. Glad to add it to my blog. Now if only I still blogged. Maybe tomorrow.
Compassion dave says:
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(*up and running–but not on wordpress–OW)