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Not all deeds need to be earth shattering. Thanks to @Jason for this one of a bartender who bought him his first round.

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Today’s (exceptionally cool) #DailyRAK comes courtesy of the nicest guy in Britain, Luke Cameron. If you’re not following @lopwert on Nobly (and everywhere else - except maybe real life) then you’re missing out.

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It’s the little things that add up. Today’s #DailyRAK comes courtesy of @georgestevens who handed a fallen tape measure up to a carpenter so he wouldn’t have to climb all the way down to retrieve it.

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Thanks to @JohnMark for sharing this capture from an event hosted by his church group. Way to come up big for Charleston, JM!

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Shouts to @ashdavislauren for the ‪#‎DailyRAK‬. Everyone loves a good kitty rescue and we hope you and Marcus have a long friendship.

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Daily RAK: Duct Taped for Good

Huge tip of the hat to our boy @brianrietveld1 for this incredible RAK. Brian was duct taped to the wall by a gang of 6th graders to raise money for school supplies and uniforms.

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Daily RAK: Qdoba Employee Helps Disabled Customer Eat

Pretty amazing story out of Louisville, where a patron captured a rock star employee helping a disabled customer eat her dinner.

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With an an Awesome Dig South in the Books, it’s on to Vegas

2/3 of Team Nobly rocked booth D-270 today at the Collision Conference in Las Vegas. We're just a few days removed from Dig South back home in Charleston, where we were blown away by how many awesome start-ups have launched or hit their stride recently in our small city. Huge props to REWINED CANDLES for all the support and to our friends at Bidr for winning the Wild Pitch event (CEO is active Nobly user @Shazaam - check out the good deeds he does while he’s not changing the silent auction game).

Vegas has been a whirlwind since our guys got in town on Monday evening. We’ve met awesome people from mega names like Coca-Cola and Nasdaq to fellow start-ups like Crayvit, Sunscious and Linkwok. 

We’ll have more to report in the next couple days; for now, we need to get some sleep.

Thanks everyone for the support along the way,

Team Nobly

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RAK Spotlight: Alex from Washington

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This adorable little munchkin is Alex. And although she is young of years and slight of stature, she is a freaking force when it comes to getting out the good. 

Earlier this year, the plucky 8 year-old set out to perform 600 random acts of kindness for strangers. She recently completed that task, just shy of what would have been her grandmother’s 60th birthday, as a tribute. A local news piece on Alex outlined a typical day for her. It went something like this: up at 5AM, volunteering at a local Mission by 6AM, breakfast at IHOP including footing the bill for a couple in town because their relative was in a local hospital for cancer treatment, tipping the server $100 and on and on. To the tune of 50-60 RAKs in a single day.

Alex is an awesome piece of motivation and positive reinforcement for what we’re trying to do with Nobly. She’s the gold standard for good deeds. And if one 8 year-old can make such a splash, imagine what we can do collectively.

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When Doing Well Meets Doing Good

More than anything, Nobly is about empowering individuals to do and spread good deeds. We believe that each of our users has the power to harness good deeds to influence others and spread positivity. But, from time to time, we do like to spotlight brands that are going above and beyond to perpetuate good.

Try to contain for a moment, if you can, your presumed cynicism about corporate philanthropy and accountability. Because if you drill down into the Starbucks community service or Kind Snacks Kindness Challenges, you may be surprised at the lengths these corporations go to in order to affect actual, measurable change (although we could probably help them out in the measurable department; take it from Kind, it ain’t easy). 

Indeed, doing well and doing good can exist independently of each other and, all too often, do. But there’s also a sweet spot where doing well begets doing good. Cheers to the businesses, and people, who live in that space.

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Kiwis to Donate $9.1M Lotto Win to Performing RAKs

Here’s a new one: an Auckland, New Zealand couple has vowed to spend the $9.1M NZD ($6.82M USD) they’ll receive from a winning lottery ticket performing Random Acts of Kindness.

Don’t worry, we’ve already reached out to see if they need help tracking their benevolence.

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The Superman in the Mirror

Superheroes are big these days, like Galactus big (would’ve gone Hulk but Galactus has him by 10 feet or so). You can’t look at a summer blockbuster forecast or a kid’s wish list without seeing a Justice League or Avengers cast member. But we wanted to highlight a couple of feel-good acts of kindness that put a different spin on being super to one another.

The first one is a real tearjerker but we’re almost partial to the second (mostly because we don’t have the technical acumen to built bionic arms). Does it get any better than a man dressed as his favorite superhero casually reporting, “[I’m] just going around doing heroic things...like feeding the homeless.”

We don’t think so.

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iOS Etc.: Get Happier With Nobly

We woke up to an awesome surprise Sunday morning as one of our Instagram friends, Jeremy at iOS Etc., had published a great blog post about Nobly. Specifically, he writes about how your overall happiness is largely correlated to the "intentional activities" which you choose to engage it. We think that's a really natural connection; acts of kindness are an awesome outlet for promoting happiness. Here's a blurb from Jeremy's post:

"If 50 percent of your overall happiness is based on genetics and 40 percent is based on intentional activities you choose to take part in, why are we so fixated on the other 10 percent? 

What we should be fixated on is participating in activities that bring us the most joy.Since I’m constantly focused on ways my iPhone or iPad can further integrate into my life, I immediately thought of an app currently in development called Nobly. This indie app is solely focused on good deeds and random acts of kindness.

I’m sure nearly all of us have heard of others doing nice things for people. I would be shocked to learn if you hadn’t engaged in one yourself at some point in your life. Nobly wioants to bridge the gap between those wanting to do good deeds and those needing some generosity in their lives.

So how does it work? Think about all the snow the East Coast received over the past few months. If someone needed help shoveling their driveway because they’re disabled or a recent health condition hinders them from completing this task, they could post on Nobly with the hope that someone would be willing to do a good deed and lend them a hand."

A huge thanks to Jeremy and team. Be sure to navigate over iOS Etc. to read the full article and follow them for app reviews, indie dev and tech based knowledge sharing.

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Daily RAK: Kids These Days

"Tommy Adams, a high school senior from Virginia, asked his mother to stop the car as the two drove by a man trying to shovel snow in his driveway. One thing in particular caught his eye: The man was using a walker to get around.

According to WTVR-TV, CBS6 in Richmond, Va., Tommy and his mother, Teresa, were driving home from the Department of Motor Vehicles when Adams spotted Clarence Coleman, 76.

"Tommy said 'Mamma stop the car,'" Teresa Adams recalled. "I got scared and asked 'what's wrong?'"He said, "there's an older man with a walker shoveling snow -- I'll help him out," she added.Tommy approached the man and asked him for the snow shovel."He looked surprised," the station quoted Teresa Adams as saying Wednesday. "I was so proud, I started to cry.""

- c/o Mass Live

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