{"id":1443,"date":"2010-01-19T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:44:55","slug":"community-generated-childrens-book-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/19\/community-generated-childrens-book-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Community-generated children’s book for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the holidays, I bought Reed an awesome personalized book<\/a>. While I still have the personalized book my dad made me when I was 3, I must admit that the storyline and illustrations are pretty lame. The one I made for Reed, Following Featherbottom<\/em><\/a>, is beautifully illustrated and educational, teaching kids about geography (not that Reed is going to be ready for a geography lesson anytime soon, but someday…). For those of you do web programming, the web application for building the book is pretty darn impressive<\/a> and made me feel like I’d had a good user experience before I even received the book!<\/p>\n

I started corresponding with the creator of Following Featherbottom<\/em> and he let me know about another project he just started that I thought might be of interest to librarians and user-generated content fans. It’s called Project OpenBook<\/a> and its goal is to develop a community-generated book of poetry to sell for charity. People can contribute poetry or artwork and\/or can rate the poems that others have contributed to help decide what goes into the book and what does not. Proceeds from the book will go to Room to Read<\/a> to save a child in Nepal from slavery<\/a> and pay for her education.<\/p>\n

Please consider supporting Project OpenBook<\/a>. Contribute a poem or artwork, rate a poem, donate to the cause, or buy the finished book when it’s out! I think it’s a really cool idea to get people involved in creating something special for children that will benefit a disadvantaged child tremendously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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