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Things we’ve learned helping institutions manage digital change since 1993.

Over a Million Nets!

Oct 16, 2007  |  by Darrell Houle

Today I was emailed by Shannon Raybold (The High Priestess of Web, AKA Internet Director of the United Nations Foundation) to update Nothing But Nets' Net-o-meter. She explained they received a nice chunk of the millions of dollars contributed by American Idol's Idol gives Back.

I carried out the coding necessary to add this contribution and refreshed the homepage to see the revised total of bed nets. The new total in the Net-o-meter was so large that the horizontal space was too narrow and the number wrapped underneath itself.

It's amazing. In just over a year Nothing But Nets has reached over 1,000,000 nets. That's over $10,000,000 dollars! Considering when we launched the campaign in Nov 2006 our target was $5M this is pretty fantastic news. Go ahead and check it out. While you're at it take a look at the recently launched Interactive Net Distribution Map we created for the website that shows how Malaria bednets are making a difference and where our campaign is headed.

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