"Think of the environment before printing this email" – if your email signature reads like this, you may want to try something different that will actually help someone in some part of the world.
Simply sign-up with Reply for All and choose the cause you want to support – it could be Cancer cure, AIDS prevention, animal rights, children’s rights, global warming, clean water, poverty or education.
When you send an email using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, Reply For All will automatically embed a signature into your message – the sponsor will pay the Reply For All service and that payment will be shared with the cause you may have selected.
The signature is optional so if you don’t like a particular banner in the email, you can easily delete it from your email message just like normal text.
The downside – while you can add signatures in Gmail with a simple drag-n-drop, Reply For All would require you to install a Firefox plugin.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/email-signature-to-support-good-causes/7446/
Tags: environment, feature, gmail, signature, Email
Reader Comments
Windows Live Hotmail has already been doing this for quite a long while.
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Written by Michael on 02.19.09
Thanks for sharing about us, Amit!
Our users are excited about supporting our causes through the assets we all have — our emails and the friends and family whom we email everyday. And we’re excited to be able to financially support the causes and non-profits that matter most to all of us.
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be expanding support to include Yahoo and Hotmail with our Firefox add-on, Yahoo and Hotmail with an Internet Explorer add-on, and an Outlook plugin. As is already possible with our Gmail Firefox add-on now, users will be able to include rotating factoids related to their cause or other text fields like their contact info. right within their signatures.
We’re beta testing now — and working hard everyday to make replyforall better.
It’s a great conversation that’s been emerging… Please come join the mission too!
Thanks so much,
Enmi Kendall – founder
Written by Enmi Kendall on 02.19.09