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Idealist and Reddit Launch idealistNews.org

Announcement from Scott.


Today we're excited to announce a new project: idealistNews.org.

With this new service we hope to highlight the remarkable things happening in the nonprofit world, as well as important and timely news affecting the nonprofit sector. From the smallest of commitments to the greatest of possibilities, there are plenty of amazing projects and ideas promoting change around the world.

If you're not familiar with Reddit.com's technology, here is a brief introduction:

Reddit is a "social news" service where users submit stories and site community votes on the submissions. Based on those votes the submissions float up or down in ranking. Digg.com and StumbleUpon are also "social news" services.

What makes these services so interesting and useful is that they're great at bringing fresh and relevant news to people's attention often faster than traditional media outlets. They're also people powered, so there's no editorial decision making on which stories move up or down.

If you're interested in a quick video tutorial on how to use idealistNews.com, please follow this link.

Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, is excited about the potential of the new site:

Last month we saw nearly 5 million unique visitors to Reddit, many of whom participated in our recent FEEDaNEED project, volunteering their talents to non-profits that needed them. We've already seen what good can come from our community...

Please take a moment and check out the new site at http://idealistNews.org, submit your news and vote!