Next time you see a take a penny, leave a penny tray, leave a penny, but make sure you drop a buck or two in the tray labeled “Blind Kids” also. If only there was an easier way to pay-it-forward while burning our hard earned cash. Well, thanks to some refined ingenuity, we welcome ShopWisely.

Chrischen wants to make it easy to support charities while you shop. In contrast to many other fund raising schemes, his site, ShopWisely won’t charge any fees!

For the online shopper who wants to make the most out of their money, ShopWisely is a nonprofit service that allows online shoppers to support other nonprofits by shopping online.. Unlike most “give while you shop” sites our product (service) routes 100% of the proceeds and releases all financial information to the public.

Chrischen is second time lucky with this idea - his first attempt at IdeaWarz wasn’t so successful. A lot of work has been done on this idea in the meantime, and a ShopWisely toolbar is in the works.

If you’d like to offer insight, or lend a hand in this fundraising shopping site, give Chrischen a shout.

Lights, camera, achtung!

So while Gord is lapping up the rays down in Cuba, he’s handed the big shoes over to Bob to handle the blog in the meantime. That was right about the time that Bob started growing new pimples, losing more hair and referring to himself in the third person. Here’s my crack at IdeaWarz, phew, it ain’t easy being G.

Until next week: Share your ideas. Give us your gnarly and snarly feedback… Take a look through Cambrian House Bazaar and Forums for projects to assist in…

And… May the Best Idea… WIN!

Publishing houses are starting to take advantage of the exposure authors can gain by allowing free access to books online. Neil Gaiman, Brad Meltzer, Vernor Vinge and egomaniac Stephen Wolfram have all released free copies of their books online.

Even Douglas Adams experimented with distributing 3000 free copies of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy via Rolling Stone Magazine in 1979. Think that was a mistake? Oh… now you’re arguing with a dead man. Now that’s just sad.

Dbiln suggests free exposure to the first chapter of a book might not just expand an aspiring author’s fan base, but fund the creation of an entire novel!

My idea is to create a website that has up and coming WRITERS sharing their novel ideas with the public. The WRITERS would share the summary of their idea plus the completed first chapter of ther idea. The READERS, if they are interested in this author would endorse the author a certain amount of dollars ($10 or up) to have them complete their novel.

A great deal of debate over this idea centers around the significant difference between donations and investments. As a crowdsourcing company investigating the implications of crowdfunding… let me tell you, that’s a big difference.

If you’d like to offer insight, or lend a hand in this book crowdfunding endeavor, give Dbiln a shout.

Favorite Idea - Port of Call Amazing Race

Laura isn’t in Mexico, and neither is Gord. Its this not-in-Mexico quality that makes us especially qualified to cite our favorite idea this week!

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  Provide an Amazing Race type game at the port of call for cruise ships instead of the touristy excursions. People start at the port and given a clue start this scavenger hunt. Explore the city while playing a game!

MJ on the Couch

This week, MJ shares his thoughts on the winning idea! Laura! Gord! MJ! Sunshine! Beaches! Beer! Must! Return! To! Reality!

Until next week: Share your ideas. Give us your precious, precious feedback… Take a look through Cambrian House Bazaar and Forums for projects to assist in…

And… May the Best Idea… WIN!

Does your body language communicate confusion and fear?

Do you slouch in your chair? Have a nervous twitch? Mumble “Umm” “well” and “like?” In short, do you come off like a jonesin’ valley girl during interviews?

Oh, you don’t think you do… but until you’ve have someone critique your interview skills… you don’t know for sure.

Allows college students to upload videos of themselves answering job interview questions and then have the community critique them in order to help them improve.

Interviewables is this week’s second highest scoring idea, and also the winner! Give Interviewables (the confusingly named community member, not the idea) a shout if you’d like to help out.

The Second Highest Scoring Idea?

So what was the highest scoring idea?

Activity is an integer which can range from 1 to infinity. 1 is bad.

Also, a “Jerrymander” alias is lame. Even if your first name is really Jerry. Mr. and Mrs. Mander should have thought ahead when they named you.

Anthony’s Conference Call

Last week’s footage of Anthony brainstorming with CH2 team on how we can better manage and market our website is featured in this week’s video. If you want to offer feedback specific to this conference call, please do so in this forum thread.

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Until next week: Share your ideas. Give us your precious, precious feedback… Take a look through Cambrian House Bazaar and Forums for projects to assist in…

And… May the Best Idea… WIN!

How many “good causes” are truly unique? You gots the environment… that’s good. Cancer… that’s bad. Maybe human rights are good. Poverty, less so. Child literacy… that one’s still up in the air.

Basically if there’s a cause you’re fighting for, someone has already come up with an ad campaign for it. Either you’re taking your message door to door, or your busy learning Gimp to create a half-ass looking flyer you’ll be too embarrassed to thrust in someone’s face!

Frunze wants to facilitating the recycling of campaign materials with Campaign-Canvas, a campaign portal with media repository. Artists can promote their socially conscious media creations. Activists can leverage social networking tools, and know all the campaign materials on the site can be easily licensed for their use.

If you’d like to help Frunze out, leave a comment on his idea submission, or give him a shout directly.

Blue and Gord Agree with CH Community

Blue got to break this week’s tie, so Gord is claiming the 2nd place idea as his favorite!

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  You enter a url for a news article. The service extracts published date and the essence of the content. With this information it will find out whether or not this is a firsthand piece of information. It will trackback to the “source” of the scoop by comparing published time.

  This idea could still use some brainstorming, as I don’t think we’ve clearly identified all the mechanisms by which this reverse search could be performed. Certainly a Google Search API could be leveraged. Perhaps a test article could be identified, and searched for in Google manually to identify the most effective approach to finding the original story. Then the manual steps could be reviewed to see how they could be possibly automated and run against the Google API.

Calling it in…

“Calling it in” is an expression meaning not really giving it your 100%. If Gord and Blue were to “call it in”, the resulting IdeaWarz video might lack a certain energy. Maybe Gord didn’t feel like moving all the way over to the couch. Outside seemed a bit chilly. And more footage shot means more footage to edit. Maybe another coffee would have helped…

On that happy note!

Until next week: Share your ideas. Give us your precious, precious feedback… Take a look through Cambrian House Bazaar and Forums for projects to assist in…

And… May the Best Idea… WIN!