Sahara Desert Trek...3 Weeks more Fundraising ! (Posted by Mark, 5th December 2007)
The Macmillan Sahara Trek kicks off in a few weeks, and we are deep into our training AND our fundraising.
Macmillan need our sponsorship money in by the 23rd December and we still have nearly £2000 to raise !
SpreadingTheLove.com will be donating 20% of all December sign-ups to Macmillan, so please join us and send your Christmas cards from SpreadingTheLove.com and raise money for a very good cause.
Donations can be made using the widget below, or you can follow the link below :
Sahara Desert Trek...Fundraising Begins ! (Posted by Mark, 11th November 2007)
The Macmillan Sahara Trek looms closer, and training started (kind of) a couple of weeks ago with some 2 and 3 hour walks in the hills around our village in Andalucia, Spain. I have commandeered the company of my 7 year old son, Dylan, who reminds me that being 41 and eager to make a difference in the world is not the same as being a 7 year old, nimble mountain goatboy.
Dyl is selling Christmas cards (drawn by his fair hand) to raise money for Macmillan and is chipping away at the £2500 target every day. Myself and other friends and family are inspiring/pestering friends and colleagues to make a contribution, however small, to prove that many hands make light work.
Jen, Tam and I will be very proud to achieve our £2500 (each) target for Macmillan, and hope that you will follow my progress and support me if you can. Donations can be made using the widget below, or you can follow the link below :
Ahhhhhhh - summer holidays - we've all had what we reckon is a well-earned break, and hit the beach for our hols.
We hope that those of you who've managed to get away have had a great time, and are feeling refreshed !
You'll notice we've added a new category to our eCard menu - 'Sports' !
We've gathered some fantastic sporting action shots that are guaranteed to get the adrenaline pumping.
Click here to browse the whole 'Sports' gallery - and check back to see what we add over the next few weeks !
We're happy to report that having beavered away making an application for the incredible Facebook, featuring our very popular 'Beautiful Planet' eCards, we already have 1,069 users and counting.
If you're a member of Facebook, just click on Applications and search for Beautiful Planet - you'll be able to have gorgeous images, inspiring quotes and soothing music on your facebook profile.
If you haven't seen the Beautiful Planet eCards on Spreading The Love, just click here.
We're very, very keen to make sure all the eCards you send are actually read.
Hotmail is a great service and we don't want to knock it, but they do have a rather strict policy when it comes to Spam control, that other webmail services such as Gmail and Yahoo don't have.
What they do is send any email that comes from an address that is not on your Safe List straight to the junk folder.
To help you we sent you all an email so that you could send it to all your friends telling them to add our email address to their Safe List. If you didn't get that, or forgot to do it, here is a link to the same text that you can cut and paste and send to all your friends and family now.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, just drop us a line.
Spreading The Love accross the Sahara Desert... (Posted by Mark, 23rd August 2007)
Just a quick blog entry to say Jen and I have just signed up to trek accross the Sahara in Feb 2008 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Apparently we're going to trek 7 to 8 hours a day for 10 days across the desert, so we think we'd better start training very soon - I wonder if there'll be a blog entry in Feb about blisters !
If you fancy getting involved, and raising some money for a very good cause, check out Macmillan's Website
Last week, Kal, Adam and I went back to London for a few days for meetings etc. and we just wanted to thank all the creative and helpful people we met up with.
Spreading The Love will be growing in new and wonderful ways over the next couple of months, and we're very excited - so watch this space !
Mark has a gorgeous and quite bonkers little boy called Louie (who's very excited about his own birthday on the 18th)
We thought it would be fun to get him into a recording studio and ask him to sing 'Happy Birthday' for us, while we all dance around, as we sometimes like to.
But Louie just couldn't do it without laughing, which had us all in stitches.
Let us know if you love Louie's Happy Birthday eCard (which Louie drew himself) as much as we do, and we'll ask him nicely if he'll do some more. (Some choccies might just swing it !)
We were quite bad at remembering our friends' and family's birthdays.
So we created 'Reminders' - a simple way of making sure you don't forget birthdays, anniversarys, or any other special dates in your life.
Simply go to 'My Account', click 'Reminders' and then click 'Add Reminder'.
Here you can set up to two reminders for each of your contacts, (which you recieve via email), in plenty of time to send them an eCard - simple.
We're very, very keen to make sure all the eCards you send are actually read.
Hotmail is a great service and we don't want to knock it, but they do have a rather strict policy when it comes to Spam control, that other webmail services such as Gmail and Yahoo don't have.
What they do is send any email that comes from an address that is not on your Safe List straight to the junk folder.
To help you we sent you all an email so that you could send it to all your friends telling them to add our email address to their Safe List. If you didn't get that, or forgot to do it, here is a link to the same text that you can cut and paste and send to all your friends and family now.
We just wanted to say that as well as sending eCards for Birthdays, Valentines Day, Christmas etc, we're always adding new eCards so you can keep in touch with friends and family, and just say Hi !
Hi - see you in the pub this evening... Hi - we're having a BBQ at the weekend... Hi - good luck with the job interview... Hi - thanks for my gorgeous pressie...
you get the picture...!
We are proud to announce that our 'Beautiful Planet' eCards now come with sound !
Adam (see below) has brought these beautiful images to life by adding his soundscapes to 14 of these gorgeous and inspiring new eCards. Enjoy.
We are very happy to welcome Adam to the Spreading The Love Team - he brings with him a wealth of skills, including music. (And comedy, but more of that later !)
He has already proven his commitment to STL, by staying up literally all night to make sure all the gorgeous sounds for the 'Beautiful Planet' eCards was ready, so we could include them in this Newsletter - impressive, Ads - it's amazing what 14 cans of Hype Energy Drink will inspire !
We're very, very keen to make sure all the eCards you send are actually read.
Hotmail is a great service and we don't want to knock it, but they do have a rather strict policy when it comes to Spam control, that other webmail services such as Gmail and Yahoo don't have.
What they do is send any email that comes from an address that is not on your Safe List straight to the junk folder.
To help you we sent you all an email so that you could send it to all your friends telling them to add our email address to their Safe List. If you didn't get that, or forgot to do it, here is a link to the same text that you can cut and paste and send to all your friends and family now.
We can't leave without saying 'Hello and welcome' to all our new members - keep Spreading The Love !
In the meantime, if you have any questions or comments, just drop us a line.
Welcome Expat Women... (Posted by Mark, 4th July 2007)
Hi - we'd just like to welcome everyone who's joined SpreadingTheLove.com from ExpatWomen.com - we've had an incredible number just in the last 24 hours - it's going crazy !
We've already had some very positive feedback from some of you, which is really great to hear. We're still very new, and with your help our goal is to be the best eCard website on the planet - so if you have any more feedback or suggestions, just drop us a line hereor leave a blog comment below. Hasta luego, Mark
Putting Something Back... (Posted by Mark, 24th May 2007)
We're proud to announce that from 1st June 2007, we'll be giving 10% of the profit from SpreadingTheLove.com to some charities that we think are doing very, very good things. (have a good look at the sites below to get some more info).
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