Help! I’m addicted to Free Rice!

Are you someone who can get lost playing Soduku for hours? Is the NY Times Crossword Puzzle a Sunday ritual?

Well, I have a new addiction for you – I stumbled onto the Wikinomics blog the other day and have been addicted to Free Rice ever since! FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.

The site let’s you put your stunning vocabulary to good use addressing world hunger. When you enter the site, you are simply asked to play. For each correct answer rice is donated through the UN World Food Programme.

The rice is paid for by site advertisers. The more you play, the more you learn and the more rice is donated to feed hungry people around the world.

Isn’t amazing what a little collaboration, a sense community and a little smarts can accomplish? I enthusiastically advocate your perusal!

Check out FreeRice.com and while you’re building your brainpower you will also be making an impact…one grain of rice at a time.

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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 | by Nicolette |
Published in: Making a Difference, Revolution Me!

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NicPiz

B-

Thanks for pointing me to the Visual Thesaurus! I love it! A new addiction in the making!

Keep the ideas coming!

Nicolette

B

I found your post when looking for other Free Rice addicts . . . I think there are tons of us online, playing for way more hours than we'd like to admit! I'm also newly-addicted to this free online spelling bee I found, http://www.visualthesaurus.com/bee/ it's like Free Rice but for spelling! Thought you might like it too!

NicPiz

Tom

Free Rice has added a banner page with everything you need to add banners and links to your page.

http://freerice.com/banners.html

Good luck!

Nicolette

Tom

Hi,
I have had trouble getting a banner on my myspace page and i was wondering if you could please send me the banner code?
Thanks a lot!

Nicolette

Michael,

I am glad you want to spread the word -- I am sending you an email with the details.

Nicolette

Michael Chavez

I've been looking everywhere for a banner! I would love to have the code to post on myspace and facebook. Thanks

Nicolette

Ann, Melissa and Shannon,

The code is on the way - and now Free Rice has added functionality and is giving 20 grains of rice for each correct word.

Thanks for spreading the news!

Nicolette

Ann M. Bledsoe

I was just referred to Free Rice and am addicted also...what a great idea, learning, helping and being entertained at the same time !!!! would love to put the banner on Facebook, but am having trouble because I don't have the code..could you help...Thanks

Melissa

Hello,
I also had a hard time adding the free rice banner to my Myspace page. I was wondering if you could also e-mail me the code so I can add it. Thanks so much!

amy shannon

could you give me the myspace code too? I really want this on my site because it is just awesome!!!

NicPiz

Sarah,

I am happy to send you the code I used. It is on it's way - please keep spreading the word!

Cheers,
Nicolette

sarah

hi!
i just found out about the free rice campaign.
i'd like to put up the banner on my blog to tell my friends.
do you mind giving me the code too?
thanks!

~make poverty history~

NicPiz

Laura,

I'm glad you visited our site and want to share the Free Rice addiction!

Once you put the banner on your site, you will need to add a link to www.freerice.com - the banner is simply an image.

I've sent you a private message with the code to add the link and the photo.

Good Luck and thanks for spreading the word!
Nicolette

laura

Hi Nicolette

Just wondering how you managed to get the Free Rice banner on your site? I followed the instructions on the site but wasn't able to create a banner for my myspace- if you could let me know, that would be great!

cheers,

laura

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