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SocialWish was mentioned on www.mashable.com in the post ‘HOW TO: Crowdsource Funds for Causes, Creativity and Startups’.
Check it out for yourself – http://mashable.com/2010/06/21/crowdsource-funds-causes-startups/
Pretty cool, don’t you think? We think so!
SocialWish entered the “Create Your Opportunity” contest really late – contest ends today, June 14th, at 11:59 PM. I don’t know what we were thinking. I guess as optimists we thought we could make a good showing by turning to the power of social networking to get votes from our friends, business partners and social contacts.
SocialWish is counting on you, our fans and friends, for your vote, support and spreading the word.
SocialWish believes in social good and helping others help themselves by enabling anyone to create a social fundraiser. Help us further our cause and support the community at large by voting for SocialWish. Use the power of social networking to spread the word. Our goal is 1,000 votes in 24 hours.
SocialWish could really use the money to continue promoting the SocialWish mission. If SocialWish wins the $50,000 grand prize, SocialWish will donate $5,000 of the prize money to Make a Wish Foundation. Vote for SocialWish by clicking on this Link.
The contest as described in the about section, “Got a great idea? Let .CO help turn it into a reality! .CO is the new web address that offers people and companies more choice in branding their online presence with a truly global, recognizable and credible domain. Enter the “Create Your Opportunity ” contest for a chance to win your your ideal .CO domain and $50,000!”
Exerpt from the Interview:
Yan Tsirklin is the founder of SocialWish, a site that makes fundraising easy, affordable and social. It’s a web application that takes advantage of social networking and a simple payment engine, so anyone anywhere in the world can create a social fundraiser or what we call a wish. The company is looking for investors and general exposure. Yan will be presenting at the NY Tech Mixer event (www.nytechmixer.com) on June 10th.
Read the interview at NY Tech Blog
SocialWish’s launch at DEMO was picked up by a number of different outlets. Here are a just a few mentions, interviews, etc.:
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Tanya did a spectacular job on stage yesterday at DEMO. Here’s the video, which includes a sneak preview of SocialWish. Be sure to sign up for the private beta today at http://www.socialwish.com/.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Social Commerce Site SocialWish.com Shows its Stuff at DEMO Spring 2010
Online Destination Lets People Crowdsource their Dreams
March 22, 2010 — New York and Palm Desert, Calif. — SocialWish unveiled its online destination for making wishes come true to a packed house and a live online audience at the DEMO Spring 2010 Conference today. SocialWish enters the Social Commerce category with a site that combines social networking with ecommerce, allowing people to post their wish — whether it’s altruistic, materialistic or anywhere in-between — and reach out to their personal community to help make it happen. It is now accepting email addresses for a closed beta.
SocialWish makes wish lists both universal and collaborative. Make a wish — for yourself or someone else — and share it with others on SocialWish to make it come true. This can be through social gifting by wishing for that new TV for you or camera for your friend; or it can be through social fundraising by helping fund a big donation for your favorite charity. Contribute any amount toward a wish, and make your donations publicly or confidentially.
Founded on a Birthday Wish
“SocialWish started when my wife Tanya asked me to update my Amazon wish list before my birthday. My friends were all asking what they could get me. The fact is, I wanted an expensive Canon lens and I knew I couldn’t ask any one person to spring for it,” said CEO and Co-Founder Yan Tsirklin. “That’s when it hit us: why can’t we make it easy for groups of people to get together on a single item?”
“Social technologies are no longer just about communicating between people,” said Matt Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO. “We’re seeing a blending of technologies in which social networking and commerce come together to allow the type of product that has emerged with SocialWish.”
One List to Rule Them All
SocialWish works for a range of desires, whether your focus is gifts, charitable giving, even education. The site enables people to come together to achieve a financial goal, whether that’s buying a camera for a budding photographer or sending a student to study in an exotic locale. Ideas are endless, but include:
People Want Control Over their Own Gifts
Designed to fuse the popularity and interface of social networking with the consumer drive behind online wish lists and gift cards, SocialWish advances the idea of the online “wish list” beyond a simple registry. Amazon.com unveiled the online wish list more than a decade ago, which was a digital advancement and expansion of the wedding registry pioneered by legendary department store Marshall Field’s in 1924. Over the years these lists have expanded in importance and been made more accessible thanks to the Internet, but until now it was a one-to-one activity. A person put items on the list and individuals bought those items as gifts.
“When you consider that one of the primary gifts given over the holidays were gift cards and that millions of people have online wish lists, it’s obvious that people want more control over their own gifts. At SocialWish we want to help people achieve that, no matter how large the purchase,” said Tsirklin.
SocialWish democratizes the process by helping groups of people easily come together to fulfill a wish. Users can build a wish on the web site by entering a wish name, filling in details, and then sharing the wish online through socially-integrated options like e-mail, Facebook and Twitter.
Pricing and Availability
SocialWish is currently in a closed beta. To apply to be a beta user simply go to www.socialwish.com and enter your email address. Wishes are free to create and share; each contribution includes a small handling charge. Payouts come in the form of a SocialWish-branded prepaid Visa card that includes a one-time $4 charge to cover shipping and handling fees.
About SocialWish
SocialWish is dedicated to helping people realize the full potential of social commerce, social gifting and social fundraising. Founded in 2009, the company enables people to create, share and collaborate on big-ticket purchases, charitable contributions or any situation in which people can collaborate to reach a financial goal. With a commitment to wish-fulfillment, SocialWish donates 10 percent of its profits to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. You can find SocialWish online at www.socialwish.com.
About DEMO
Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group, the worldwide DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, which are hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying cutting-edge technologies and helping entrepreneurs secure venture funding and establish critical business. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/.
Editorial Contacts
Chuck Tanowitz or Todd Van Hoosear
Fresh Ground, Inc.
socialwish@itsfreshground.com
617.575.9643
If you haven’t become a fan of Social Wish this is a good time to do it. There is Flickr feed of Tanya and Yan practicing their presentation on the Demo stage. Becoming a fan is easy, just go to this link or you can search for Social Wish on Facebook and become a fan.
So we are all packed, on our way to Demo. The development efforts, marketing, PR – it all comes down to the show.
We are now collecting names for the closed Beta. Become one of the first people to try out Social Wish. As an added bonus we are giving away a $500 Visa Gift Card to someone that signs up for our Beta. You can sign up at Social Wish.
