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Esther, the creator of the My Ten Bucks website, states her mission very succinctly in one of the first posts on the site:

‘My vision for this blog is simple: to encourage regular people to take pride in their small donations, and make them carefully.’

Esther challenges the readers of My Ten Bucks To donate $10 every two weeks to the local charity of their choice, and to do a little more too; namely, get out and meet the people behind these worthy charities in an effort to know where your hard-earned donation will be going, and perhaps other ways in which you can help.

My Ten Bucks profiles different charities in Esther’s home state of Delaware, USA. And yes, she actually goes out and meets people doing the good work that it takes to keep charitable organizations going. As I looked through the website I found myself thinking that every locality needs someone like her and a site like My Ten Bucks to sing the praises of organizations that probably never get the recognition and attention they truly deserve. Who knows, maybe others will see this site and be inspired to create similar sites around local charities in their areas.

This attractive site was built on Blogspot using a blog format and features a really inspired header of dandelions being blown by the wind. New though it is, My Ten Bucks already has 14 followers on Facebook and I can only imagine that if Esther is as social media savvy as she is proficient in getting an attractive website together, that number should increase rapidly.

Even if you’re not from Delaware, a visit to this site might inspire you to do something similar for local charities wherever in the world you live. My Ten Bucks is an illustration of the saying “Think globally, act locally” and if you share that sentiment, why not drop by the site and be inspired?NULL

It is one thing to have a personal blog which you used to share your musings and your private thoughts, but I’m also very interested in the way that business websites are challenged to make online presences nowadays that engage readers in the same way.

The tsi.com website (which stands for trust, science and innovation) offers performance measurement solutions and tools, and if these products don’t initially strike casual readers as inherently interesting subjects to read about, that is exactly why this website is so brilliantly done.

Between the clean design and the attractive visual elements on the page, the company has built for itself an engaging web presence that serves not only to draw the reader in but also inspire confidence in the company itself. Pay the site a visit and you’ll see what I mean.

TSI has dozens of products and measurement solutions, and support is also a large part of its business apparently, so when you find that just about every aspect of the company is featured using a hover effect over navigation tabs in the header you are looking at first-class functional design that informs even a casual visitor about almost everything they need to know about the company, but in a way that does not clutter up the overall design and branding of the site.

Certainly if you have a need for measurement tools and solutions, visiting TSI’s website would be a first stop that would most likely inspire you to take further action and contact the company.
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