It’s been a bit since we’ve updated you on our progress, mostly because we’ve been so busy making progress!

We’ve been making strides officially signing our beneficiary organizations, setting up our social media marketing tools, and developing content. Ohhhh content. We currently have close to 2500 questions on BeRewarding, which is really a great place to be. We want you to keep bringing the content in, and we’ll keep refining it. One thing to note is that, thanks to extraordinary efforts by a few individuals, we are pretty well stocked on Health questions, specifically questions about global health crises. While I’m sure our health beneficiary is happy to hear this, we need to try to balance out our other categories, so try to write questions about other topics if you can.

We’re really gearing up for launch on April 23rd. If you are interested in following our progress more intently, you should follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/berewarding. You should also join our facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BeRewardingcom/15626389023?ref=ts.

1. VOTE EARTH by switching your lights off at 8:30pm local time for one hour.

2. Support our Earth Hour Action here

3. Sign on to BeRewarding to commit one hour for the planet!

Did you know that every time a question is correctly answered, including accepted questions you’ve created, BeRewarding donates money to amazing non profits? If you love this action, then we encourage you to create and answer fun multiple choice questions on BeRewarding!

Also, be sure to also check out this great Earth Hour video!

JUST CHECK OUT THESE SOURCES FOR GREAT FACTS TO START WRITING QUESTIONS, WITH THESE INFORMATIVE FACT SOURCES!

DO YOU WANT TO SEE EXAMPLES OF SOME AWESOME QUESTIONS?

JUST CHECK OUT THESE EXAMPLES OF GREAT QUESTIONS!

As of today, BeRewarding is announcing the “One Question, One Quarter” campaign - you write multiple choice questions and BeRewarding pays you! We are offering to pay 25 cents ($0.25) for every well-written multiple-choice question that can be used on our site. This “One Question, One Quarter” campaign gives you the opportunity to write, learn and earn. You come up with questions, we reward you for that. Then your questions are read by hundreds of thousands of people, and for each question right your question contributed a donation!

There are some stipulations. Only questions that are usable on the final site are counted. The minimum check is for $15, so you must write at least 60 accepted questions to be eligible to receive payment. There will be a $100 bonus to the team or individual that can write the most questions during the program, and a $50 bonus to the student, teacher, or class that contributes the second most questions. The tally starts today.

In order to receive the money, you must provide an address when you create your account. Those accounts which become eligible for payout will have a check mailed to the address provided. No address, no payout, but you can always go back and edit your account information to fix this problem.

There will also be a $100 bonus to whomever writes the most accepted questions during the duration of the program, and a $50 bonus to whomever comes in second. The tally starts today.

There is a maximum $599.75 payout (including bonus) because we really don’t want to bring any tax paperwork into the equation (let’s keep it green, people). So if anyone creates 1,999 accepted questions we’ll either shut down the program or have an intervention for that individual concerning their caffeine abuse.

BeRewarding would like to offer you a paid opportunity that will allow you to become a published writer online while raising donations globally for nonprofit organizations tackling social and environmental issues. This offer will expire on April 22^nd so I hope you will capitalize on this awesome campaign to raise awareness for people and planet while rewarding yourself!

You can choose from the following categories: Climate Change, Health, Energy, Biodiversity, Education, Poverty, Human Impact, Human Rights, and Water.

Here are the benefits of this program for you:

• We will pay you $0.25 for every good question you write. If you write 400 questions, we will give you $100.00 !!! Learn more here: http://berewarding.com/blog/
• Questions you write will be seen, read, and answered by hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world
• You will help educate and raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.
• Every time someone correctly answers your question, BeRewarding donates money to an organization working in that category
  
• You can recruit your family and friends to write questions too in your name!

The program will run until we have enough content to launch the site (5,000 questions goal). This could be two weeks or it could be two months (let’s hope not!).

You can state your own personal full name, a “Team Name” if you are writing with classmates, or create two accounts for both. The first name and last initial of your username will appear on our website for every question you write, so you will get credit. After creating a username, click on “Write a Question,” and be sure to check out this list of great sources to get started.

More comprehensive rules can be found here.

We’re also working on securing donated prizes to give out for mini-contests such as goodies from Ben & Jerry’s and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Stay tuned.

One Question, One Quarter. Who says nobody is hiring?

For those of you who live in the Bay Area, we will be having a celebration party on Tuesday the 24th at Nickie’s located at 466 Haight St. between Fillmore and Webster. We would love to put faces to all those votes that carried us in the competition. Come take pictures with the novelty-sized check for $10,000 that you all helped to create. The party starts at 8 PM.

This competition is critical to our ability to get BeRewarding off the ground so please go here: http://ideablob.com/ideas/4284-BeRewarding-com and vote for our idea today!

Many thanks!

Please have a look around. Take some time to answer questions and learn a thing or two, check out our partners, and, most importantly, create an account and write some questions! If there is something you think everyone needs to know about the world, this is your opportunity to spread the knowledge.

Keep in mind that this is an Alpha version of the site so we really need to hear from you if you find something funky going on. If you want to bring something to our attention, send an email to info@berewarding.com. 

Check back here frequently as we’ll have more instructions about what you can do to make this site better. BeRewarding cannot possibly reach its potential without your help!