Is your profile pic distorted? Are you worried other Do Gooders may decline your friend request because you look a little twisted? No worries. There’s a very easy solution that will take all of 30 seconds to complete!

Here are step-by-step instructions:

1. Log in to Daily Challenge and select “My Profile” tab.
2. Select the “edit” button to the right of your name.
3. If you want to adjust your current photo, just click on the “Use our crop tool” link.
4. A separate window will pop up. At the bottom, you will see your original pic and a square with serrated edges smack-dab in the middle of it. That’s the crop tool.
5. Hold the left button on your mouse and move the crop tool anywhere over your pic. At the top, you will see the preview of your new profile pic.
6. Once you’ve chosen your preferred cropped portion, click on the “save” button under your original pic.
7. Click “close” to return to your profile.

We hope you and your new profile pic are able to cruise around www.DailyChallenge.org stress-free. Enjoy making Do Gooder friends!

Well, you’ve had 6 weeks to help support some great kids in Uganda and submit your best holiday story to the Goodest Story Ever Contest. But it’s still not too late to blow past the leader! You have 2 more days still: contest closes this Friday at midnight on January 31.

And if you’re a little behind, that’s ok. Here are 6.5 Ways to Get Yourself to Cancun so use the remaining time to promote the heck out of your story!

For those of you looking to cure yourself of the winter blues, why lift yourself up and read the feel-good stories? Just don’t forget to vote for your favourites and do the contestants a favour by passing their stories onto the rest of your network.

Good luck, Everyone! May the bestest story win. 

We introduced Amber MacArthur (a.k.a. Amber Mac) when she first joined Daily Challenge a few weeks back. And here she is today challenging you to, “Spend five minutes learning about the reality facing child soldiers & share this link: http://www.helpchildsoldiers.com.”

This challenge helps remind and inform us about the atrocities happening in the war-torn parts of the world. Many of our challenges on Daily Challenge focus on the little things we can do every day to make a difference by acting in our own little world. But as a whole and with a tool like the Internet, we have power to affect the entire globe.

Take Amber Mac’s challenge and not only will it bring awareness, it also allows you to take action in several different ways. Choose your action and help make the world a better place!

If you caught the hit movie, The Secret, you may recognize today’s challenger! Once homeless himself, Dr. Joe Vitale is spokesman and living proof of the power of The Law of Attraction. He is challenging you to, “Do something for a homeless person today: www.operationyes.com.”

Dr. Vitale is author of several best-selling marketing books and is considered to be one of the five top marketing specialists in the world today. A few interesting and lesser known facts about today’s challenger:

…the world’s first hypnotic writer, Joe is also an ordained minister, a certified metaphysical practitioner, a certified hypnotherapist, and a certified Chi Kung healer. He also holds a doctorate degree in Metaphysical Science.

“Bene agendo nunquam defessus.” (Never weary of doing good.)

Wow, Joe! Not only is your resume extremely impressive, this Latin quote you use is the epitome for Daily Challenge. No wonder you signed up! You are an inspiration to Do Gooders around the world. Thank you for joining our burgeoning online social network.

This is a late-breaking story covered exclusively on the Do Gooder Daily: Jack Johnson snagged his popular song, “Better Together,” from none other than Daily Challenge’s creative director, Verne Ho! Please do not doubt the validity of this claim, here’s the proof:

Just kidding! Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, isn’t it? And obviously Mr. Johnson has impressed Verne. Actually, we all love Jack Johnson here at Daily Challenge. His music lifts our spirits and keeps our mojo’s going even after we reach exhaustion.

So thank you for creating beautiful music and sharing it, Jack Johnson! And Verne, you really need to bring your guitar to work…

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of Do Gooders around the world uniting to Do One Good, Daily! Every week, dozens of socially conscious people have been joining Daily Challenge. Welcome. Some of you have signed up because a friend sent you (thank you for spreading the word, Do Gooders!), while others joined after hearing about Daily Challenge on the radio.

Well, for all you Do Gooders who missed our President, Darius Bashar, speaking to several radio show hosts about Daily Challenge, here they are for your audio pleasure:

The Ben Mercer Show on CFRB

Holder Tonight on CFRB

Fresh Air on CBC

Did you find Daily Challenge through one of these programs? Either way, we’d love to hear how you found Daily Challenge; please tell us in the comment section below!

We’re very excited to announce that Daily Challenge was featured on the homepage of www.csrwire.com. That was yesterday, Monday January 19, so if you click on the link today, you’ll find their new `pick’ is the new President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. Good thing we took a screen shot to prove it!

The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire is “the leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability news, reports and information.” They are on our side, taking an interest in making the world a better place in their own way, through communicating how companies and agencies are doing good.

They define CSR as: “the integration of business operations and values, whereby the interests of all stakeholders including investors, customers, employees, the community and the environment are reflected in the company’s policies and actions.”

Daily Challenge is extremely proud to be a CSRwire.com pick of the day - especially when succeeded by President Obama! What an honour!

Isn’t great when you hear celebrities do good? Maybe it’s because everyone on Daily Challenge can relate to a desire to make the world a better place. That’s why we’re happy to announce 5 new celebrity members to the Daily Challenge community! Please meet:

The Midway State

Known for their special blend of rock, piano and soulful music, The Midway State is an up-and-coming Toronto band who wants to play to the beat of the Do Gooding drum. Lucky us, we get four for the price of one! Nathan Ferraro (lead vocalist & piano), Daenen Bramberger (drums), Michael Wise (guitar), and Mike Kirsh (bass) have all joined Daily Challenge as The Midway State.

They’ve toured all over Canada and the U.S., opening for acts such as Avril Lavigne, Theory of a Deadman, MIKA, 54-40, Shiny Toy Guns, Evanescence, Rocco DeLuca, Collective Soul and Lifehouse. Among the positive music and concert reviews, one critic observed that The Midway State puts so much of themselves into each creation, their songs sound “anthemic in nature”.

To get to know these new Do Gooders better, check out their their Daily Challenge profile for links to videos, music, bios, events and news.

Amber MacArthur a.k.a “Amber Mac”

Recently voted Canada’s “Most Influential Woman in Social Media,” we are very pleased to welcome television and netcasting personality, Amber Mac!

You may recognize Amber from her video podcast, commandN.tv, or maybe you’ve seen her on G4techTV Canada’s Torrent or Gadgets and Gizmos. Amber has worked for Citytv’s CityNews and is now CTV-owned CP24 as New Media Specialist.

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You and I are doing our part to do good for the world (every day on Daily Challenge!), but what are companies up to? They are every bit as responsible for caring for others and the environment as we are. Actually, since companies produce so much waste, and considering we pay for their products and services, it can be argued that they need to be even more aware of the effects from their choices than the average person.

This post is a short list of companies doing good. They have recognized the negative impact of their past actions and taken responsibility, invested money to change their business methods, to improve the welfare of the entire planet:

Coke’s Green Energy Makeover: Part of their “Sustainable Well-Being” Campaign launched last year, Coca-Cola has replaced over 4,000 lights with a high-intensity fluorescent system in 24 of their California locations. That means an energy savings of 5.6 million kilowatt-hours annually! Continue Reading

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Dr. Deepak Chopra joined Daily Challenge last month! Just yesterday, he challenged the community to, “Take the vow of nonviolence in your thoughts, speech and actions. Visit http://www.itakethevow.com and get counted in this global movement.”

The results are in: 32 Do Gooders accepted the challenge and 11 people completed it (so far). The community seemed to be pretty excited about Dr. Chopra’s challenge, and to prove it, here are the posted comments:

Staci J. Shelton
Posted January 12, 2009 5:59 am

What a beautiful way to start the new year. Being truly non-violent to everyone, even in our thoughts and speech. So often we think of violence as physical, but we kill people (even ourselves and our futures) with our thoughts and words.

Thank You Deepak!

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