Online fundraising campaigns have the reputation for being successful in the social media world without any of that success actually translating to physical donations. That’s not the case with the current Haiti relief efforts. Read below for a few of the initiatives taking place that harness user-generated sites to raise real money for Haiti. (more…)

Meebo is ramping up its Community instant messaging (IM) program and bringing real-time messaging to your favourite social networks. Users of the popular high school site, myYearbook, can now chat with friends on this web-based instant message application, across multiple networks.

Most recently Meebo Community IM launched on Flixster, and now there are 25 partners using the instant messaging tool on their own sites. myYearbook is by far the largest of those partnering sites, with over nine million unique visitors monthly. (more…)