Are you interested in helping the people of New Orleans rebuild and recover? If so, then surf on over to www.ShopForNewOrleans.com and see what you’re missing.
ShopForNewOrleans.com was designed as a directory website for several dozen New Orleans retail establishments that already have their own individual websites.
The site was designed as a way to attract web surfers who are interested in helping re-build New Orleans through commerce, but who may be unfamiliar with any actual New Orleans shops. The retailers are grouped into 12 categories—“art”, “antiques”, “books”, “children’s”, “clothing”, “food”, “health and beauty”, “home furnishings”, “jewelry”, “music”, “sporting goods” and “other gift items”.
According to the website, ShopForNewOrleans.com is not affiliated in any way with any merchant listed on this site. The site makes no money from any transaction. The thought behind building the website simply sprang out of a Thanksgiving dinner conversation given for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
ShopForNewOrleans.com was originally launched during the 2005 Holiday Season in an effort to encourage site surfers to spend some time, and then some money, with at least one of the listed retailers during the holidays. But don’t let the end of the holidays be the reason to avoid surfing on over to ShopForNewOrleans.com. After all, think of how many birthdays, anniversaries and other gift-giving occasions exist in your own life. They are each one, an opportunity to buy a little something to spread the joie de vivre that is the New Orleans legacy. Shopping from the site is also a great way to assist this historical city’s citizens in their recovery, in a commercially viable, sustainable way.
This added benefit of ShopForNewOrleans.com is in its usefulness as a teaching moment for children. Supporting the merchants on the site supports the concept of the world as a community, and of a community helping its own. It also promotes the concept of social responsibility. Imagine how effortlessly a simple ten dollar commitment by each ShopForNewOrleans.com site visitor could funnel millions of dollars of earned income back into the devastated Gulf Region. No charity, just good old fashioned commerce.
One caveat: ShopForNewOrleans.com is not responsible for any transaction with any vendor listed on their site. If in doubt about any vendor, we suggest you contact them directly.
To sum up, ShopForNewOrleans.com is a worthy site to tell your co-workers and friends, has plenty of good content to make you want to return, is easy to navigate, but, ought to be in more than one language. After all, New Orleans is a world-renowned city and deserves no less. Bottom line: Now, thanks to the Internet, we can all live globally and act locally to help rebuild the New Orleans economy, one purchase at a time.
Finally, www.ShopForNewOrleans.com rates a SiteSurfin’ “E” for everybody.
