Blue Dot – provides celebrity offers for charity supporters. With a background at Comic Relief, Blue Dot brings the power of celebrity for consumers who are donating, volunteering, sponsoring and shopping for good for any of over 100k charities.

Blue Dot is growing fast & having enormous impact with consumers, charities, governments, artists and brands!

We have a major campaign launch of bluedotworld.com from June 11th and you getting involved with a great offer from your artists, business, or clients : provide a chance to win product, samples, tickets, merchandise, an experience, download etc – and it will be publicly supporting over 100k charities and engaging their 28m cause conscious consumers across UK.

Brands and artists are providing offers to support charities & increase their own sales and employee loyalty - 1 good action or purchase  = 1 great Blue Dot Offer from the likes of (you?!), Amazon, Universal Music, Bauer, Virgin Media and celebrities such as Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Snow Patrol & One Direction, who have all gained new customers and benefitted thousands of charities.

Please see our video starring 1 Direction (and us!) http://bluedotworld.com/blog/blue-dot-video/

There are 3 ways to get involved:

1 Provide an exclusive offer.

This could be merchandise, samples, downloads, tickets, competition prizes or even the opportunity to shadow yourself as a ‘work’ experience. Your offers can be given to supporters of any charity or exclusively for the supporters of your own ‘charity of the year’, on your unique Blue Dot webpage (view: http://bluedotworld.com/virginmedia

2 Provide an exclusive (affiliate) discount deal for BlueDotStore

Provide the BlueDotStore - 2000 top stores with the biggest rewards, & donations on the web - with great exclusive discount (affiliate) deals and publicity. Instead of cashback our shoppers donate the full 100% commission to the charity of their choice. In return, for every £1 they spend they get exclusive Blue Dot Offers of up to 25p. Can you give them the biggest discount on purchase on the web?

3 Use Blue Dot Offers to motivate you own customers & employees

Incentivise your customers to make (non purchasing) actions on your website & maximise your employee volunteering. They do action, you donate, they get Blue Dot Offers – its the most effective CPA there is…

During this period we are launching Blue Dot Offers to everyone buying the Big Issue, participants in National Volunteers’ Week & the global Mandela Day, as well as activity with BBC Children in Need and ITV’s Text Santa Telethons  - so your product and offers will be seen and motivate tens of thousands consumers…

There’s more info below. It is 100% FREE and through our premium channels you can access full usable data and follow up communications opportunities.

Please mail or call 07932 746 591 anytime – Blue Dot is making a difference 24/7 – please be part of the brand that’s helping change the world…

Thanks,

Chris

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How Blue Dot works for Offer providers http://bldw.co/OfferProviders

Plus all our business services: http://bldw.co/OffersForBusinesses

About Us

After helping raise £482m for good causes as Creative Director of Comic Relief and the legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Chris Ward found  that shoppers spent £870m in Westfield London in the same period. He wanted to use the power of major brands and celebrities, to enable every charity to engage with consumers through great content. So he created Blue Dot!

Check out Blue Dots exclusive celebrity offers for all charities at www.bluedotworld.com and contact lucy@bluedotworld.com to discuss using (100% FREE) to engage your supporters in giving more….

Thank you to everyone who attended our ‘Engaging More Consumers to Give’ event on Wednesday. We hope you enjoyed it and felt inspired.

You can check out all the conversations that happened on the day with the hashtag #BDGive on Twitter.

Below is the ever inspiring video Chris showed at the beggining of the day, the inspiration behind Blue Dot…

Here are copies of the slides from the speakers:

And you can check out the other accompanying videos here too

Please keep in touch on facebook and twitter and keep the conversation going. We learnt a lot on the day and hope everyone who attended went away with some great ideas for the future engagement of consumers in giving!

Blue Dot are delighted to announce our partnership with The Teenage Cancer Trust. We are helping raise awareness and rewarding and recognising the people who support them…

Each year The Teenage Cancer Trust organises a week of fundraising concerts at The Royal Albert Hall and have raised over £14million since they started in 2000. With people like Paul McCartney, Example, Pulp, Jessie J, Jason Manford and Florence and the machine all performing this year, it’s going to be an amazing week and we’re so excited to be a part of it. Keep an eye out for the announcement of the support acts too who will no doubt be amazing too!

We have created a special site where people can support the Teenage Cancer Trust, and in return, access exclusive backstage goodies from the artists and performers involved after the event. As well as lots of great competitions and special offers exclusively available for people with Dots. Everyone who attends the Royal Albert Hall in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the end of March / beginning of April will also receive some Blue Dots as a thank you.

You don’t have to wait until the event to show your support though, just click here and log in with facebook. You can then support this amazing cause in various ways, get rewarded with Dots as a thank-you, then use your Dots in the store and get great stuff.

One way of getting a Dot, is liking the Teenage Cancer Trusts facebook page. So like their page now and remember to follow them on twitter too. Spread the word and share the love! You can also get Dots for donating to them too through the site via JustGiving.

The Teenage Cancer Trust is the only UK charity dedicated to improving the quality of life and chances of survival for young people with cancer aged between 13 and 24. They build specialist units within NHS hospitals, bringing young people together to be treated by teenage cancer experts in a place designed just for them.  They want every young person with cancer to have access to this specialist support, no matter where they live. They rely solely on donations to fund their vital work.  You can help transform the lives of young people with cancer now.  Visit www.teenagecancertrust.org to find out how.

Tickets, from £25.00 (plus booking fee), will be available from 9.30am on Friday 24 February 2012 and can be purchased from the following outlets:

www.gigsandtours.com          0844 811 0051

www.ticketmaster.co.uk         0844 844 0444

www.royalalberthall.com        0845 401 5030

www.hmvtickets.com             0843 221 0100 and in selected HMV stores

www.teenagecancertrust.org

Win a day working with top execs from the worlds best companies and improve your CV with Blue Dot!

In the current economic climate, it is harder than ever to get a job and more and more people are in need of a helping hand to get their foot on that first rung of the career ladder. Blue Dot can help you stand out from the crowd by providing a platform to record all your good activities in one place, and also give you the chance to win work experience with top executives from facebook, wired, cake and more!!

Blue Dot adds up all the good things a person has done to create their personalised ‘Good Account’ CV, which has the potential become the ‘socially good’ version of Klout. This ‘Good Account’ keeps a record of all the Blue Dots a person has got and can be used to help them get promoted or a new job as an addition to traditional career credentials.

For just 2 dots (which can be given for liking or sharing the word of a good cause through social networks), you can also enter a competition to win a unique career experience. This includes the opportunity to get work experience or shadow top executives at; Facebook, Wired, Yahoo and more, as well as other great career experiences that will stand out on your CV.

So what are you waiting for, do some good, get some dots, get great stuff, and improve your ‘Good Account’. Oh, and don’t forgot to enter the competitions to win a day shadowing top executives either, all this will really improve your chances of getting a great job in the future.

Top artists including Coldplay, Snow Patrol and One Direction all recorded exclusive performances in November last year in aid of Children of Need.  

The stars recorded live backstage performances exclusively for Blue Dot users to get when they donate £5 or more to BBC’s Children In Need. By donating just £5 to help children across the UK, music lovers, fans, and those wishing to help a good cause, then received their Blue Dots which they used to give them full access to all 10 of these very special recordings by the bands, perfored behind their locked dressing room doors…

This helped contribute to Children in Need raising their biggest every amount of over 26million pounds! And there’s still time to help them raise even more and get access to the videos…

The ten performances include:
- JLS performing an acapella version of ‘She Makes Me Wanna’
- An acoustic rendition of ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ from One Direction 
- Gary & Nathan from Snow Patrol with a soulful performance of ‘Lifening’
- A unique and amazing band performance of ‘Us Against The World’ from Coldplay
- Westlife performing an acapella version of ‘What About Now’
- The Saturday’s performing a unique acoustic version of ‘All Fired Up’
- Guy & Craig from Elbow performing ‘The River’
- Rizzle Kicks playing a cover version of ‘What a Day for a Daydream’
- James Morrison performing a unique cover of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Knocks Me Off My Feet’

Fans can view sneak previews of the Children in Need videos on the Blue Dot Facebook page and get extra Blue Dots by ‘liking’ Pudsey and BlueDotWorld’s Facebook pages too.

There’s still time to help Children in Need and get access to these great exclusive performances as well as other great offers and competitions too. Once you have these performances you will be able to view them as many times as you like and they will stay in your personalised vip content area on Blue Dot long after they are no longer available to get online.

The videos will not be available much longer so if you want them go get them now at http://bluedotworld.com/pudsey

To celebrate the release of their eagerly anticipated new album ‘Fallen Empires’ on 14^th November, Snow Patrol are offering the chance to win some great prizes and help support good causes at the same time.

You can enter the competition to win tickets with just 2 Blue Dots! Which you get by supporting charities by connecting with facebook and either sharing good causes there, or donating to charity through the BlueDot site. So not only will you be getting the chance to be one of the first to hear the new album or see them perform live, you will also be helping great causes at the same time.

There are 3 prizes in this competition: 

1. The first prize to win tickets to their Q magazine gig is now closed, but you can still enter to win a chance to to be the first to hear their brand new album.

2. From 31st Oct – 10th Nov. Be the very first to hear the new Snow Patrol Album at exclusive ‘playback’ event at a city near you. We have 20 tickets to give away for Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Belfast, Manchester & Birmingham.

3. Win the ultimate goodie bag of all Snow Patrol albums.

Everyone who enters to win the live tickets and playback event tickets will automatically be entered into the competition to win the goodie bag.

To celebrate the release of their eagerly anticipated new album released on the 24th October ‘Mylo Xyloto’, the magnificent Coldplay have donated tickets to their sold out gig on the 27th October.

You can enter the competition to win tickets with four Blue Dots which you get by supporting charities by sharing them on facebook or twitter, or donating to them through the BlueDot site. Coldplay have asked their fans to also support their favourite charity Kidsco. Kidsco provide practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children. You can share their good work and get a Dot by liking them on Facebook

Simply by “Liking” their page you will be helping to promote all their initiatives to help and protect vulnerable children and young people in poverty. You will also earn some Blue Dots next time you scan your profile for goodness (you can do this by clicking on the “Get Dots” and “Share” buttons on our homepage).

But why stop there? Click on the “Donate” button and give any amount a charity of your choice through JustGiving and you can do even more good – and of course, earn even more dots!

Radio 1 DJ and Presenter Annie Mac is supporting Blue Dot in a big way. Not only did she put together a half-hour special radio show explaining how Blue Dot works – click here or on the radio player on the bottom of the home page to listen! – and how you can get involved, but she’s also giving all our supporters – that’s you! – a chance to win a pair of exclusive VIP tickets for her UK tour.

Two tickets are up for grabs for every date of her upcoming tour, so there’s sure to be one near you. Annie is renowned for her variety of musical tastes, from disco and electro house to bass and hip hop. Her DJ sets are very well established and popular around the world. Guests in her “Annie Mac Presents” UK tour include: Nero, Fake Blood, Jack Beats, Erol Alkan, Sub Focus, The 2 Bears, Jaque Lu Cont, Shy FX, Donae’o, Ms Dynamite, Andy C, Redlight, Zinc, Danny Byrd, Caspa, Toddla T, Teed, L-Vis 1990, David Rodigan, Breach, Areoplane, Carte Blanche and many more…

You can also listen to some of them, as well as learn all about what makes Blue Dot so great, by tuning into the special half-hour programme that Annie recorded for us and is available through We7. Feast your ears!

It only costs a single dot to be entered into the draw, and you could be the lucky winner! So just click here to go to our offers page, look for “Annie Mac Presents” and hit “Get.” It really is as easy as that, and if you win we’ll email you to ask which date and venue you’d like your tickets for.

Check out more details about Annie’s awesome tour here and see the dates below.

Tour dates and locations:
23/09/11 Manchester – The Warehouse project
24/09/11 Leeds – University
29/09/11 Southampton – Junk
29/09/11 Bournemouth – V Club
01/10/11 Edinburgh – Liquid Rooms
06/10/11 Brighton – Digital
07/10/11 Sheffield Fusion & Foundry
08/10/11 London – Koko
09/10/11 Cardiff – Solus
13/10/11 Leicester – 02 Academy
15/10/11 Birmingham – Rainbow Warehouse
21/10/11 Oxford – Academy
04/11/11 Bristol – Motion
05/11/11 Glasgow – Arches
11/11/11 Newcastle – Digital
12/11/11 Belfast – Stiff Kitten
18/11/11 Nottingham – Stealth
19/11/11 Liverpool – Masque

The British Heart Foundation was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals wanting to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory disease.

Today the BHF is the nation’s heart charity. Their vision is a world where people don’t die prematurely from heart disease. They fund pioneering research, vital prevention activity and ensure that those with heart disease have care and support.

One example of their groundbreaking and crucially important work is the Mending Broken Hearts appeal. At the moment, there’s no cure for a broken heart. Once your heart muscle is damaged by a heart attack, it can never fully recover. But there is hope. They believe that with £50 million of funding for research, we could begin to see these hearts mended in as little as ten years time, giving hope to thousands of people across the UK.

For more information and to get involved be sure to visit the British Heart Foundation’s website and Facebook page