Unfortunately we cannot support good people with money donations just yet, but we’ve been doing our best to provide free Subscribe-O-Matic groups to numerous charity and educational organizations around Second Life along with other non-profit and community groups.

Relay for Life Second Life teams have been using Subscribe-O-Matic to coordinate the RFL effort every year  to raise awareness and donations for the American Cancer Society. The Second Life RFL teams raised US$275,000 this year alone. We’ve also been supporting other efforts like Kivafriends.org, the Kiva.org lending community and the Amnesty International group in SL. Organizers of annual charity events and fairs like the Clothing Fair and Hair Fair have also been using Subscribe-O-Matic to plan and promote their events.

There are also hundreds of educational, art and culture communities using the non-profit Subscribe-O-Matic services: Art and Culture Virtual Community, ArtMuse, Institute for Cooperative Education and La Performance – to name just a few.

If you run a non-profit, educational, charity or community group in Second Life and want to use Subscribe-O-Matic to promote or communicate your cause, don’t hesitate to contact us. We’ll be more than happy to review your group and set up an unlimited non-profit Subscribe-O-Matic account for you.

Even though we’ve been quite busy in the last few months, we probably haven’t been updating you on our current website as much as we should. To remedy this, we put up this blog so we can keep you in the loop more easily, let you know what’s going on behind the scenes, what we’re planning and also post a handy tip or two.

Subscribe-O-Matic groups currently have almost 2 million members combined and over 100,000 members join every month, so even though we’re way overdue on some much needed feature additions and upgrades, we’ve been focusing on the backend to make sure we can deal with the growth and keep providing a reliable service.

Since we probably all agree our website urgently needs upgrading, we have a team of 150 engineers working on are working hard on a brand new Subscribeomatic.com website which will be much more user-centric. Users (group members) will be able to manage their subscriptions online without all the teleporting around and hunting for the kiosks. They’ll be able to unsubscribe easily on the website, or subscribe to new groups, check their recent messages or redeliver items they might have missed, amongst other things.

For group owners, the most important and long-awaited feature is definitely the ability to create and manage more than one group. Other exciting features include detailed analytics, the ability to send messages only to certain members (based on a tag or where / when they joined, etc) and 3rd-party integration options.

We’re aiming to launch the upgraded service and the new website by the end of February (provided we have enough coffee and Red Bull). In the meanwhile, we’ll keep you updated with previews and insights on what we’re doing.

Your feedback and ideas are very important, especially at this stage, so don’t be shy and let us know what features are most important to you in the comments below the post.

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