It's the Little Things

Sometimes it's the little things that bug me. I order a cup of coffee and the cashier wants to sell me the next size up: "It's only an extra twenty-five cents!"

No thanks.

It's like this everywhere. "Can I super-size that for you? Can I talk to you about our extended …

February Prize: Norret Sweetens The Deal

I'm sure by now you're all aware of the prize for the winner of the February Top Inviter challenge. Well, Twoshirts member Teresa (user name norret), has generously offered to sweeten the prize package for those who are competing.

In addition to the first place $50 …

February Challenge Prize Announcement: Coffee, coffee, and more coffee

You probably already know that our February challenge is to see who can successfully invite the most new members at Twoshirts.org using the "Invite your friends" feature of your profile menu. Well today is the day we announce the prize for the winner...

(Drum roll …

New Project: The Common Twoshirts Library

Hello. My name is Jason Coker and I'm a book-a-holic. I've spent countless amounts of money on Amazon.com over the years. I've obsessively joined a variety of book clubs and purchased titles I didn't really need all to satisy my insatiable hunger for more books.

Not any …

Weekly Wrap Up: New Members, New Groups!

It's been another great week here at Twoshirts.org. The community continues to grow in surprising ways. More people have joined this week than in any previous week and we've seen the addition of two new Groups as well.

Altogether 57 people joined the growing community …

Quick Tip of the Week: Send & Manage Invitations

This week's Quick Tip covers the Twoshirts Invitation system. You probably know that this month we're conducting a challenge to see who can send the most successfully received invitations (as of this writing Brian Stevenson is in the lead!), so we thought we'd take this …

Twoshirts Now Has An OSU Chapter!

Some of you may have noticed that Twoshirts member DoctorBravo has started a Twoshirts OSU Chapter for those of you who are OSU students. We're excited to see that users like DoctorBravo and Sarron are taking the initiative to start groups and make a difference where …

Who Are The Lurkers From New York?

One interesting number that popped out at me when reviewing our January website traffic stats was this: the state with the second highest number of visits is New York, with a whopping 138! Closer inspection reveals these visits are overwhelmingly clustered in and around …

Weekly Wrap Up: January Was Unbelievable!

Our latest weekly wrap up is also really a monthly wrap up, because we want to share with all of you how unbelievably successful the Twoshirts community (that's you) was in it's first official month since the re-lauch.

• This week we reached a grand total of 607 FREE …

January Inventory Drive Winners!

We're happy to announce the winners of our January inventory drive challenge!

On January 1st we announced a month-long campaign to drive up inventory here at Twoshirts.org in order to jump-start our effort to create a community of generosity in Columbus, Ohio - and you …

Quick Tip of the Week #1

Starting this week we'll be posting a Quick Tip every week in order to help you get the most out of your Twoshirts.org experience. This week: category filtering.

You may have noticed that about 2 weeks ago it became too difficult to look through the item listings …

Weekly Wrap Up

Wow, it's been an amazing week here at Twoshirts.org! The word is getting out faster than we expected, some of you are posting free items way beyond the call of duty (you must like Dave & Busters!), and on top of it all we've added a couple more cool features to the …

Social Networking With a Purpose

There's a new way for you to support the Twoshirts community by using some of the web's most popular online communities. Social networking has become a worldwide phenomenon, with the most popular sites claiming a total membership of well over 170 million users. Now you …

January Contest Prize Announced!

You probably already know that January is out month to try and reach 1000 FREE items on Twoshirts.org. But what you really want to know is, what will be the prize for the user who posts the most items? Well, we're happy to announce...

The user with the most items posted …

Twoshirts is on Technorati!

Twoshirts.org is now part of the Technorati network! We're excited about utilizing this powerful tool to spread the word about the cultivation of communities of generosity all over the United States. Check out the twoshirts Technorati profile by clicking here.

Morgan Spurlock Meets the Westside Freestore

Many of you know that I'm heavily involved with an organization here in Columbus called the Westside Freestore. Great things happen there.

This short clip is an example of the Freestore in action on Morgan Spurlock's show "30 Days." Spurlock and his girlfriend spend …

Beta testing has begun

We've officialy begun beta-testing the new site, so for those of you who have been invited her to participate, please put eveerything through it's paces. We need you.

By that, I mean, create your profile, post items, claim itmes, flag content as "suspicious," (just for …

Beta-Testing Of Twoshirts Is About To Wrap Up!

Well, we've had about a dozen of you helping us beta-test the new site over the course of the past three weeks and I'm glad to say we're about done! We've uncovered lots of little (a big!) bugs during this time, and we couldn't have done it without you. So to all you …

Twoshirts Is Alive!

We're very excited to announce that the new twoshirts.org is up and running! The creation of the new site has been several months in the making and has involved plenty of hard work by lots of people including some of the twoshirts users out there who helped us beta-test …

Ben Stein on Christmas

Thank you Ben Stein...

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