It’s time! It’s time! IT’S TIME TO VOTE!! The time has finally come to vote for our 2012 Website Giveaway winner. (Want to learn more about our finalists? Check out our blog post about the Top Two!) Voting opens today, January 9, and closes January 31. 

There are 3 WAYS TO VOTE:

Facebook 

On our Facebook page, you will find 2 photos. One says New Beginnings Church, one says My Life Youth & Family Services. You need to LIKE the photo of the organization that you’re voting for. HOWEVER, you MUST like our Facebook PAGE (www.facebook.com/immerseme) for your vote to count.

Twitter

Send us a Tweet (just mention @ImmersemeWebDev) and tell us who you want to vote for! Again, you have to FOLLOW us for your tweet vote to count! (You can vote on Twitter up to 3 times per day!) Find our Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/immersemewebdev.

Website

Yep, we have a one-button-click voting setup here on our website. Just click HERE to go to the form. 

GOOD LUCK to our finalists and be sure to SPREAD THE WORD!!

We decided waaaay back in 2011 that we wanted to give away a website to a deserving non-profit organization. Nominations flooded in and after a lot of review and consideration, we are thrilled to announce that we have chosen TWO finalists!

Drum Roll Please.......

Finalist #1: MyLife Youth & Family Services

MyLife Youth & Family Services is a non-profit counseling and psychological treatment center for substance abuse in Downey, California. They provide education, prevention, and intervention services to youth and at-risk families in their community. Their staff is made up of unpaid volunteers who provide group and in-home counseling at no cost. MyLife is currently without a website. With an official, informative and easy to navigate website, they feel they could reach more people in their community. Learn more about MyLife at www.facebook.com/mylifenonprofit

Finalist #2: New Beginnings Church

New Beginnings Church is a growing congregation located in Covington, Louisiana. It's a newer church with a big heart. The church is only about a year old, but they are vibrant and growing in their community. Their motto is "Reach and Teach". They want their church members to not only KNOW, but to GROW! While New Beginnings has a website up and running, they feel that their vision is not communicated as effectively as they would like for it to be.  Learn more about New Beginnings at www.nbchurchnorth.com.

So... what now?

We've selected the finalists. The voting will open on Monday, January 9, and close Monday, January 31. Until then, be sure that you've LIKED us on Facebook and FOLLOWED us on Twitter! We'll be sharing more information about these finalists and how they have impacted their communities. We're honored to share their stories. 

Happy Voting, and Good Luck to the Finalists!

Tomorrow is the last day to submit your nominations for our 2011 Non-Profit Website Giveaway!  Let's go over the basics here:

What are we giving away?

We're giving away a custom website and Internet Marketing valued at over $5,000 to a qualified non-profit organization. The donation includes a fully custom website design by Immerseme's world-class designers, plus, one year of free hosting on ImmerseEdit CMS, our easy-to-use content manageme software.

The end results will be world-class websites with content that the organizations can manage themselves with easy-to-use tools. Each site includes advanced features like blogs, podcasts, videos, forms, donations, payments, calendars and more.

Who is eligible? 

Any registered, non-profit organization with operations based in the United States is eligible to receive the website donation.

How do you nominate?

By filling out this nomination form, silly goose!

Got more questions?

Visit the details page!

Nominate! Submit! One day left!!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! We are thrilled, ecstatic, overjoyed, and honored to start accepting nominations for our custom website giveaway! A deserving non-profit organization will be chosen by vote to receive a year of hosting and a custom website designed by our team of professionals. 

Here's the timeline of how this will all play out:

• Nominations begin November 1, 2011. (That's TODAY!) :) 
• 
Nominations accepted through November 22, 2011.
• 
Semi-Finalists will be announced December 1, 2011.
• Stories of interest will be collected through December 20, 2011
• Finalists selected and announced at Facebook.com/Immerseme on January 3, 2012
• Public vote for finalists at Facebook.com/Immerseme from January 1 - January 31, 2012
• Winner announced February 1, 2012 (HOORAY!!)

We want to give back to those who give, so we are excited to find the non-profit organizations that are most deserving of this custom website. Over the next few weeks, you'll see our finalists, hear stories about them, and help us vote for the final winner.

Check out the Website Giveaway page for more details, frequently asked questions, the nomination form, and ways to spread the word! 

Let the nominations begin!

Giving makes the world ‘round. And, here at Immerseme, much has been given to us. We’ve been blessed. So, you know what we decided?

We decided we want to give back!

There are so many wonderful organizations that do amazing things for amazing people. Often these jobs are thankless and pay next to nothing. Sadly, many of these organizations have to dedicate so much of their time to fundraising to keep themselves at a functional level of operation when they should be focusing their efforts on doing what they do best.

We put our brains together and came up with an idea that we are MEGA excited about:

We’re gonna give away a website.

A really, really cool website.

A website valued at more than $5,000.

A website for a non-profit organization.

And then we decided to make it fun and decided to make it a CONTEST!

Because we love contests.

So, we’re calling on the troops. (And by “troops” we mean “YOU”.)

We’re gonna need your help. We want to know who you think should get this website.

(A super cool, over $5,000 custom website for a non-profit organization.)

(Plus a year of hosting.)

(For reals.)

I know what you’re thinking.

You’re thinking that you want to know how you can get your favorite non-profit organization nominated. Here’s what I can tell you for now:

Over the next few days and weeks you’ll start to see how you can nominate one of these super awesome non-profit organizations for one of our super-awesome websites.

So put your thinkin’ caps on. Get ready.

IT’S CONTEST TIME!

Stand by for now, troops. Instructions to come shortly.