Link: http://www.idealist.org

I received the following email and wanted to share it with anyone who is interested.

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As you may know, this month we are trying to reach every nonprofit organization in the country to invite them to post their jobs and volunteer opportunities on Idealist.org.

The biggest challenge we face in doing this, is that after 12 years of promoting Idealist solely by word of mouth (we've never had any money for advertising or marketing) we are suffering from a classic 'network effect' - while in some places we are very well known, in other places no one knows us, and therefore no one knows us…

In Ohio we are somewhere in between: some people are using Idealist, but many others are not.

At the bottom of this email you can see the number of nonprofit job postings we've had so far this month, state by state. As you can see, we should be doing much better in a state as big as Ohio.

And this is why I am writing you: to really jumpstart Idealist in Ohio we need your help.

Are there any mailing lists in the state where you could post this message? If you blog, or if you use Facebook or Twitter or any other networking tool, can you give Idealist a plug and invite your friends to join us?

Lastly, if you want to do more, let me know and we'll put together a team of people who want to help share Idealist in Ohio.

Thanks in advance for your support, and all the best!

Ami Dar
Executive Director
http://www.idealist.org

Job postings on Idealist.org, June 1-17, 2008

NY - 1816
CA - 901
MA - 855
DC - 719
IL - 334
WA - 323
MD - 260
PA - 254
VA - 201
OR - 157
NJ - 146
TX - 116
FL - 111
MN - 86
OHIO - 84
CT - 78
CO - 74
NC - 70
AZ - 60
GA - 60
WI - 58
MI - 45
MO - 36
ME - 34
IA - 32
LA - 30
VT - 30
TN - 25
NM - 25
KS - 24
NV - 24
DE - 22
RI - 21
AK - 18
NH - 18
OK - 18
MS - 15
MT - 15
IN - 13
SC - 8
UT - 7
KY - 6
AL - 6
NE - 6
WV - 4
ID - 4
AR - 4
HI - 3
SD - 2
ND - 2
WY - 1

For more details, here is two-minute video about why Idealist.org is a great place to post a nonprofit job:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BQYIPILUU