We calculated the number of changed avatars and the final number was…381.

Not bad.  That amounts to a $1905 donation.  It’s the first time we’ve done a community donation like this, and the support theSpoke community has shown has been awesome.

To make it even better, I’m glad to say that our friends over at the Imagine Cup (read: Shreyas) also collected a donation for Tsunami Relief.  This came from an internal project he did getting Microsoft developers to write questions for the competition.  The Imagine Cup is adding another $1700 to our donation.  Pretty cool.

So altogether our donation to the Red Cross will be $3605.  We’ll be making the donation next week.  How much do you think we can get the next time theSpoke does a public service campaign like this?

Anyway, I’ve changed my avatar back to a picture of myself.  It’s actually the same picture, but I found the original color version instead of the blurry black and white one (if anyone remembers the old one).  I invite you to change your avatars back as well. 

Thanks again for your support of this campaign.  I hope that all of us will continue to keep the Tsunami victims in our thoughts.