Digits: Because there’s more to life than taxes.
Giveaway alert: read this entire post for the chance to win!
Digits is the newly launched site from H&R Block created to extend the tax office experience and offer a place to connect with their customers online. Sounds kind of strange’¦ or boring to say the least, but I have to admit, they’ve done ‘œcommunity’ right.
Digits is your community, built with the latest technologies to help you share your thinking through text, images and video conversations. Digits highlights the connections between money, art, politics, the planet and people everywhere. You’ll get access to the tax and personal financial resources you’d expect from H&R Block … but there’s much more here than that. Serious debate? Sure. A little light-hearted banter? Absolutely. Digits is about money. It’s about life. It’s about you. Come be entertained and join in the fun.
The destination serves as a hub where the money talk lives alongside conversations about the rest of life because they’ve figured out that there’s more to life than taxes. Go check it out. By the way, it’s also really well designed in both look and function: gay creative types will appreciate that!
Here’s the win part: For my personal endorsement and this sought after link, they’ve offered Queercents readers three H&R Block Flash Drives containing TaxCut 2007 Premium Federal + State. It’s a $45 value and these reusable 1 GB USB Flash Drives contain everything you need to complete your federal and state taxes. The product demo is here if you’d like to understand what you’re trying to win.
This is what you have to do. Leave a comment on your favorite Queercents post from the past two weeks and then return here and tell us what you like about Queercents or what you would change or what you add.
You have until the close of day on Wednesday (as in tomorrow) and then I’ll pick the three best ideas that would make our site better and send out your flash drives’¦ in a flash’¦ because there’s only 35 days to April 15th. Act now for your chance to win. Thanks for playing!
Let me say that H&R Block was able to handle California’s new requirements that registered domestic partner file joint California returns, as if we are married couples – they had modified their software to accommodate it. And we were not treated like freaks either.
My favorite thing about Queercents is the diversity of authors and viewpoints.
If I could add one thing, it’d be podcasts. How cool would it be to listen to Queercents at work on my iPod?
Tracy: Good to hear their software passes the “inclusive” test.
A.J.: Regarding the podcast idea – I just recorded a money essay that will be broadcast on Public Radio tomorrow night. Once it’s available on the web, I’ll see how my “podcast” voice sounds. I have a feeling I won’t be doing any regular podcasting!
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Doesn’t anyone else want a flash drive? I’m surprised! At a minimum, you could auction it off on eBay and make a few bucks. Any other takers?
Like AJ, I love the diversity represented here. Since a lot of blogging is storytelling, having a lot of writers means more stories and more viewpoints and more potential for getting something useful every day.
A month or so ago I would have gotten rid of partial feeds, but you already did that. The site is also well-designed, so…
Ah, wait I came up with one! Ok, I’d make it so that by clicking on a member’s name, you went straight to their contributer page (you can set this in user settings for homepage). And if the pages had a list of all the contributer’s posts under their name. It’d just be nice, for instance, if I came to the site and really liked something by Moorea, to go quickly to her page (by clicking her name) and see everything else she’s written.
Tracy, A.J., Mrs. Micah: Email me at nina [at] queercents [dot] com to claim your prize. Thanks for supporting Queercents. Thanks for playing! Now go do your taxes!