It’s always good to hear about something positive coming from something so tragic. If you are able to design Websites, this could be a great way for you to give something back…

With the last of the Thanksgiving turkey leftovers gone, thoughts here at DigitalRainmakers turn to the coming Christmas season. I ask myself what this time of year means — especially this year, when so many disastrous events have taken their toll both here in our own backyard and across the globe. In this season of giving, we drop our spare change into Salvation Army kettles, we pick a name or two off of the Joshua Tree, we buy extra food for the Food Pantry at our local grocery stores.

As giving as these actions are, I can’t help but think to myself ‘How will this help people next week, next month, six months down the road?’ I find myself wanting to do something that will make a difference for someone in the long term as well as the short term, and the plight of the hurricane Katrina victims immediately springs to mind.

Why hurricane Katrina victims and not, say, the mudslide victims out in California or the tsunami victims across the ocean?

Let me take you back a year and some change to September 4, 2004. My husband, my sons, my mother and myself were at home in our Port Orange apartment. It was late Sunday morning and we were weathering hurricane Frances. We had already been through hurricane Charlie with no ill effects and planned to do the same through Frances. [Read the rest]