Comment by melvinram | Hacker News Reader

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Red Cross and others will likely be jumping to the aide of those who have been affected by this disaster.

If you have a website, please consider adding a message and link to the Red Cross donation website or the link to the donation page of any other website.

To get it up ASAP, I've used the HelloBar (http://www.hellobar.com) on my site. You can see a working version of it at http://www.webdesigncompany.net but really any way that grabs attention would be a good way.

PS: I'm not associated with the HelloBar product but I've sent them an email requesting that they allow those who want to use their product to participate to get an invite to their beta. Hopefully they'll reply here soon.

If you don't want to setup an account or don't have an invite yet, you could copy/paste the following code:

  <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    new HelloBar(3823,9104);
  </script>

The text and link will never change.

Thanks Melvin. Great idea.

We've set up the invite code "helpjapan" if you would like to use Hello Bar to encourage aid.

Melvin's working version is a great example to duplicate. Just sign up at http://www.hellobar.com and enter the invite code on the next page.

Pasting Melvin's code is a great alternative as well if you don't want to sign up for an account.

Here's the best article I've seen about how to donate:

http://blog.givewell.org/2011/03/11/japan-earthquaketsunami-...

"At this point we strongly recommend holding off on giving to this relief/recovery effort. We believe that money isn’t a cure-all, and that there can be such a thing as an 'overfunded' relief effort even in a devastating disaster. We don’t know yet whether that is the case with Japan, but we believe that the next few days will bring valuable information about it (and we will be providing updates in this space). We also believe that waiting a few days will not diminish the impact of your donations."

I set up a WePay donation page, but this is way better if you've got any sort of traffic. Let's help these people out.

Awesome to hear about the clickthrough rate. I just wrote this post: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/telepathy/how-to-help-japan-w...

I am also going to ask some of the speakers at SXSW to share the "helpjapan" invite key at their talks.

I updated the code to a Hello Bar we control in case there are scaling issues:

<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> new HelloBar(1,9126); </script> <noscript>Help The Victims of the 8.9 Earthquake in Japan by Spreading Awareness and Aid. Visit http://goo.gl/wjZQz to donate. </noscript>

FYI: I'm getting about 5% click through rate on this... so if you assume that half of those donate and that each person donates $10 minimum, you can figure out how much money you can raise from simple copy/pasting a few lines of code.

Fantastic idea. Added: http://www.bullyentertainment.com

Very nice website!!

To learn how you can help the Disaster in Japan and donate please click on this link : <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> new HelloBar(3823,9104); </script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> new HelloBar(3823,9104); </script>

I tried adding this to my tumblr, but the hello bar unfortunately conflicts with the tumblr controls at the top right (it gets pushed down). Not sure how to resolve that. :/

You can change the positing setting to cover page content. Here's an example: http://www.arookiemistake.com/

This is a great idea. I'll be adding it to my site shortly.

On a "blogspot: blog, where does it go? Or can you get google to make it appear on all blogs for a period of time ?

Thanks for deleting my comment on how to add the hello bar to Tumblr, easily. Good job.

Japón necesita de ti, tu donativo irá a Doctores sin fronteras.

Ayudemos a los Creadores de Goku y Robots Gigantes.

Where do I add it in WordPress and BuddyPress?

Here's a simple WordPress plugin to install the code: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hellobar/

buena, excelente idea

I want to upvote this a million times over. Hacker-type people, do what you can and add the link,

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