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We encourage you to use "labels' to help find blog entries that are useful. Some of our most popular are "college access", "college financial aid", "Conference", "Youth Ministry" "web site", "churches", "Illinois College Access Network" and "networking".

You can see our expertise, knowledge and care for these subjects, and we would love your opinion on them as well.


These aren't the only areas we focus on. Check our website at www.do-gooder.us and see some of our other specialties. We would be happy to post a blog entry on those areas as well, in addition to starting a simple discussion on the topic of your choice.

Contact us at 872-222-8008 or blog@do-gooder.us

Celebrate Dreamhost's sweet 16 with us!

We use Dreamhost to host webpages (such as our website at www.do-gooder.us They have a special offer for new hosting, for just $1.60 a month for a full year!

WARNING: This is only for new customers, and really for those who know their way around a website.

We love using Dreamhost because it's simple (well, for advanced users) to use, and are down-to-earth people, as opposed to some big corporations.

If you're unable to establish a website on your own (such as due to time, lack of ability, etc.), Do-Gooder Consulting can help you. Just contact us at 872-222-8008 or web@do-gooder.us for details.


P.S. Dreamhost is celebrating 16 years of existence, so they will have more ways to celebrate their Sweet 16!  Happy Birthday, Dreamhost!

We hope you LIKE to FOLLOW us!

Do-Gooder Consulting is on Twitter and Facebook, so we hope you will like to follow us!

We also want to explain our our internet presence is various fields.

Our website is found at www.do-gooder.us and has the basic information about our services.

We also maintain a blog, whch you can bookmark at blog.do-gooder.us and this is where we will give free advice in detailed articles.

On Twitter, @dogooderchicago, we send out short messages, such as reminders of meeting where we will attend (such as Chicago's Urban Youth Network and the Illinois College Access Network). We may also re-tweet relevent items, and other short thoughts and important links.

We also pre-schedule Tweets using Twuffer, so we can help get you information when you need it.

Our tweets are also automatically posted on our Facebook company Page. We'll use that page to also post polls, provide links to important items (with our own insight regarding the link), and items for discussion.

We can also interact with you as a Facebook Friend, with the ID of Do Gooder. We post tweets, similar to the page, but also have to the ability to message and realtime live chat with you as well.

If all of these technologies seems confusing, we also provide consulting to help you sort through it, and help you use it to benefit your organization.

You can also reach us in the "ancient" ways of snail mail, phone or e-mail.

Do-Gooder Consulting

P.O. Box 199233

Chicago IL 60619-9233

872-222-8008

blog@do-gooder.us

We look forward to hearing from you!

.church web extention coming in 2013

Earlier this year we talked to you about web domain extensions OTHER than .com, .net , .org or .edu


Two companies that are bidding to win control of the .church extension informed Do-Gooder Consulting (back between June 26-28) that they could start opening up that website extension in early 2013.

So today, if you were going to try for First Baptist Church of Chicago, you might have to go with something like FBChurchof Chicago.com  

That's a mouthful, and the odds are very good that people interested in the church will NOT remember the web domain name, and not look up that ebsite.

However, if we are able to take advantage of the new domain names, we could get a domain as easy to remember as www.firstbaptist.church


We at Do-Gooder Consulting, can help you secure a domain. Contact us immediate and we can set plans in place, so that when the domain (or a close alternative) opens up, we can take advantage of it.

And in the mean time, we can help you use one of the othe ravailable web domain extensions, such as .org, .me and .us as an alternative.

You are NOT stuck with a .com for a website name

When many of us think of websites , we have been conditioned to think of it as .com  and not realize that there are a host of other opportunities, currently available, with more on the way..

The .com part is called a domain suffix. Others you may be familiar with include .gov (for US federal, state and local governmental bodies) or .edu (for schools, usually colleges, but even elementary school systems, such as cps.edu).  There are 22 of those top-level domain suffixes, and they exist alongside 250 country-level domains, such as .ca for Canada or .jp for Japan.

Another reason to consider something OTHER than a .com - the number of websites with that suffix. Here are the most popular(according to the above article, from WhoIs):
.com = 103.9 million (as of June 27, 2012)
.net =     14.8 million
.org =     10.0 million
  .us =       1.8 million

Looking at those numbers, if you've tried to register a domain name, you may be stuck with someone only insiders might remember, and not easy for outsiders (such as prospective customers or visitors) to remember.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which regulates the domain suffixes, is opening up the extensions, with many more possibilities. Some would be exclusively for a corporation, such as .apple for (of course) Apple Computers, or .amazon for Amazon.com.

But others would be opened up for the general public. For example 2 organizations are vying for the use of .church, which they would re-sell to the public. So Uptown Baptist Church could go from www.UptownBaptistChurch.org to the easier-to-remember www.Uptown.church (and in the process drop the "Baptist" if they desired to not emphasize that part of their name).

The website rt.com has an excellent article which explains the possible extensions that have been applied for.
 There are 2000 suffixes that have been applied for, with each application costing over $185,000.

Ryan Faughnder of Tribune Newspapers wrote an excellent article regarding the status of these domain extension at the end of June. It is found here --> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-internet-overseers-20120628,0,5690285.story 

We at Do-Gooder Consulting want to keep things simple, so our web site is simply do.gooder.us 
Because we know that confuses people, we will advertise the web site as www.do-gooder.us , as people also (falsely) equate all website names as starting with www.




Please contact us at Do-Gooder Consulting, and we can help your organization get set up with a web domain name that fits your needs and resources.

Even if you are not quite ready for a website, contact us so we can help you be on the cutting edge when domains become available, such as a possible .church suffix.

This article is copyright 2012 by Do-Gooder Consulting. Please contact us if you would like to reproduce it on your blog or newspaper.

Welcome to Do-Gooder Consulting!

Welcome!

Do-Gooder Consulting is a new consulting agency, specializing in helping you help others. Whether you are working in a church, non-profit, organization, business or even on the political trail, Do-Gooder Consulting can help.

This blog will give you a tatse of the expertise we offer you.

Do-Gooder Consulting Service Categories

• Non-Profit and Church Management = Tools and advice to help you fundraise and manage your organization
• College Financial Aid, Access and Outreach = Helping you set-up a college preparation and financial aid program with little-to-no cost to you
• Administrative Temporary Work = Providing professional temporary work to meet your administrative needs at a competitive price.
• Community Development and Outreach = Helping your nonprofit or business connect with your community.
  
• Basic Web Site & E-mail = We can provide you with a domain name, e-mail addresses and a basic web site.
• Political Strategies = Providing you with some initial research and simple but effective tools to help you

Thanks for reading! Look for more soon!