Good.ly: a tiny url service for charity
Good.ly: a url shortener to benefit charity from JD Lasica on Vimeo.
During the Traveling Geeks‘ visit to London last week, I twice met Alicia Navarro, founder and CEO of Slimlinks, an automated affiliate marketing service for blogs and websites. During our talk she mentioned a little-known service that deserves wider visibility: good.ly.
In this one-minute video, Alicia describes how it works. If you’re going to make a product recommendation on Twitter, you can do it through one of the traditional url shorteners — bit.ly, is.gd, ow.ly — or you can use good.ly. At good.ly you can designate a charity will would benefit from any commissions that are generated by your recommendation.
ChildVoice International, Crisis and DogsTrust are among the charities that would earn the lion’s share of commissions generated by a tweet.
Watch or embed the video on Vimeo
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Seems like causes are getting a lot of attention from URL shorteners recently. There was another service, http://giv.to, that launched recently. I think their concept is more about creating links that go to donations pages to raise money directly, rather than indirectly through commissions on products. But http://good.ly seems like an interesting way to passively raise money.
What happens to the other half of the commission? Is that kept by the user or Good.ly?
Comment by Frank R. — July 19, 2009 @ 5:22 am
Here's another URL shortener with a simple charity fundraising mission: http://hyd.ro/
Comment by Will — October 22, 2009 @ 4:21 am