i clicked the just 1 click button

That is what I meant...although I think what Ginger mentioned would be a good compromise.

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Visitors to the site - outnumber the Board visis dramatically and those folks are often in the debates but choose not to join the boards. So we need to address everyone.

I don't think she meant the board members only in this case. I think Meg meant the people who normally do the clicking, as well as the people who frequently sign in to YN to utilize any part of it.

Meagan

These are youth generated for the most part. Perhaps each of you could take on the responsibility for getting your friends, classmates, etc. to click as well. They'd need to register but we have made that quite simple. As Lissa suggests, we want to drive more attention to YN and to these incredible causes, so while the duplicate clicks you all offer are great, we really want to raise awareness among tons of youth and you are our best "marketers" because you believe in these efforts.

But to anaswer your question, yes there can be a mesage board vote - how about every 2 months?

Visitors to the site - outnumber the Board visis dramatically and those folks are often in the debates but choose not to join the boards. So we need to address everyone. But I think a commitment to offer the lead every other month may be doable. We'll discuss in the office tomorrow and hopefully the Mers will weigh in here.


YNGinger

Thanks for the information Lisa, sorry to keep you fielding our questions.

I just had one thought...I believe I've shared it before, but I think this is worth repeating and maybe someone could let me know how doable it really is. Is it possible to let the people who are active on the site and regular clickers determine the J1C? I know we have polls, but those are available to anyone who happens upon the site. I think we would do a quicker job of meeting our goal if we had a greater interest in the organizations we were clicking for.

If someone from YN could give me feedback on it, I won't bring it up again.

With that, I would like to reiterate my suggestion of Covenant House.

When it's at 100% the organization will get it's money. Going over the number of clicks does not get the organization more money, but that rarely happens, too. The goal is 100,000 clicks. We are at only 29% and it's almost the middle of the month.

You guys can do this. It took a month and a half for the Darfur campaign to even get to the halfway mark, but you all got Sudha's campaign to 100% in two weeks. Katrina took only days. When you care about something, it shows—you click quickly and get it done fast. The point is to have you work together and reach a goal.

I want to reiterate that the Darfur campaign can be submitted for another go. But you will have to make an effort to submit it, and then vote for it when it’s offered in the poll for the next campaign. Also, when YN has a partner organization we are sponsoring for a specific campaign, we must honor that within the time frames that are agreed upon. Prizes that have been offered in the past have been donated for specific campaigns.

Also let us not forget that YN is a nonprofit and we have to do things to drive traffic and get funding to even keep these boards running. We can sit here and debate all day long how things are done but that's not getting worthy organizations their donations. If you’d like to submit new organizations for Just One Click ideas (and we haven’t been getting many, either), that is fine and we're happy to accept them.

I'm remembering the Afghanistan Girls J1C. It was in August of 2001, about the time YN was launching.

You used to not have to sign in to click. And they used to have a free giveaway for clicking.

I don't remember there being a graph keeping track of percentage complete, though.

Okay, I have another question: If we get more than 100,000 clicks, will the chairty we're doing it for get the extra money?

Sometimes things were done a little different depending on the amount funding available. I recall some J1C had 2 cents per click, others 1 cent per click. I don't remember any that did not have a limit. (I could be wrong)

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I have no clue. It's been like this from the very beginning since YN was born.

Really? I remember it being as many clicks as you could get in a month. I do not remember there being a "goal"/"set" amount...

I have no clue. It's been like this from the very beginning since YN was born.

I'd still like to know who came up with that rule, if possible, Lissa.


By the way, my clicks didn't always register, which discouraged me from clicking.

I'm sorry I thought everyone knew this especially when we had to extend the campaigns so we could make the goal. As for wasted clicks, I'm not sure if this is accurate because I'm speaking from memory but there's only been two campaigns since YN began that didn't make the quota.

So this is the reason you all aren't making the quotas... because you felt like YN would give the amount amount raised anyway even though it wasn't the full amount. That's not really fair either. The Just-1-Clicks are so that you can work together as a community to raise the full amount.

So I'm pleading with you as a community, and quote Meagan...Moving forward, Let's "Be more motivated to ensure that we achieve our goal."

Those are a lot of wasted clicks.

I wish we would have known about this. Had we known that our previous clicks would have been wasted, I think we all would have been more motivated to ensure that we achieved our goal.

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I'm sorry but the clicks are required. We even extended the campaign to give more time to make the clicks.

That's kind of silly...

Who created these rules, pray tell?

So they don't get the amount of money for the amount of clicks we did? Like, not getting the $1000 for 50000 clicks, but getting $500 for 50000 clicks?

Still waiting on an answer...

Hmm...well that sounds cool. I support that idea. Anybody else?