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W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.[W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.] sixdegrees.org: win-win for charity and social network awarenessHurray for Kevin Bacon and his senses of humor and social responsibility! As Bacon says in the YouTube video introducing his new sixdegrees.org site to use social networking to raise funds for charity, he was originally irritated by the now-famous 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, but eventually linked up with the good people at Network for Good to create this new site, which attempts to harness a combination of celebrity worship and social networking theory to increase charitable giving.

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http://www.screenhead.com  Screenhead: Inspired by Paul Newman’s tasty charity salad dressing, he’s turned the game into a way to give. Visitors to SixDegrees.org can click on a celebrity, find out what that celebrities favourite charity is, and then make a donation. (via Cosmos)

BLOG.CMNN.com: Unfortunately, Bacon's site has little do with the Six Degrees game - which in some form, one figures, would make an excellent Web site. But it's hard to fault Bacon since his heart is in the right place. (via Cosmos)

http://www.notmyself.com  notmyself.com is a blog by maura: For example, on Friday several of us at work decided that we wanted to have pizza for lunch, so we used Papa John’s online ordering, which is first rate. It shows you all of the specials and all of your options and even allows you to do toppings on each half of the pizza. (via Cosmos)

Charity 2.0 Blog Network: The popular game on which Bacon based his website is called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.  The game’s title is a play on words on the stage play and film Six Degrees of Separation, which reflects on the idea that any two individuals are connected by at most six other people.  In the game, players must link any film actor with Kevin Bacon in as little time and as few links as possible.  The game gained popularity in the early 1990’s, especially on college campuses, and persists today.  The game is so popular that the Computer Science Department of the University of Virginia has created an Oracle of Bacon, which calculates automatically the quickest link from any actor to Kevin Bacon. (via Cosmos)

http://www.screenhead.com  Screenhead: Inspired by Paul Newman’s tasty charity salad dressing, he’s turned the game into a way to give. Visitors to SixDegrees.org can click on a celebrity, find out what that celebrities favourite charity is, and then make a donation. (via Cosmos)

Search Marketing Gurus | Search Marketing Tips, Advice, Strategies & Tactics From Internet Marketing Professionals: (Matt this just cracked me up!), to Six Degrees of Separation not being spam but being a charity, to seriously wanting to not use the term LINKBAIT anymore - we all decided we hate the term and want a new one! (via Cosmos)

Everyday Action: It is a different kettle of fish when they use their celbrity to coerce fans into follwing them to a cause (without doing their own investigation). Kevin Bacon has launched a competition website Sixdegrees.org where you can earn ”˜badges’ by donating to the same causes as Robert Duvall, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ashley Judd, Nicolle Kidman ”¦ Take a look and let me know what you think. (via Cosmos)

Don't Tell the Donor: About a year ago, Kevin Bacon bought the domain name SixDegrees.org. Today the actor will be at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, to launch the site as an online charitable-giving site that is inspired by his namesake game and driven by today's obsession with celebrities. (via Cosmos)

Stephensonstrategies.com[Stephensonstrategies.com] W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.: However, experts predict that this voluntary program will eventually become mandatory:"'There's no doubt that this is going to happen,' says Kevin Smith, general director of global customs for General Motors. 'This is an inevitability.'"

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