Vote for Serve Denton – and how to do it from your mobile device!
If you are in Denton and you have yet to hear about the innovative and ambitious plan underway to better serve those in need and the hard-working non-profits who make it happen, you should take a second to check out Serve Denton. They have recently been named a finalist for the WFAA Project Green “20K for a Better Way” contest, where they are competing with other great initiatives for much needed funds.
The contest is simple – the project with the most Facebook votes wins. You can vote “once a day per computer” through Sunday, August 12 at 11:59pm. If you haven’t yet voted for them today, go here now and do it.
The “per computer” clause is important – most people today have multiple computer devices, including smart phones and internet-accessible tablets. It has been said that it is impossible to vote from these mobile devices. That is not true – you just have to know how to do it. Below is a tutorial that takes you through the steps of voting via iPhone and iPad. We can all pull together to increase our votes to help this very worthy cause. Here’s how…
HOW TO VOTE WITH YOUR iPHONE
It is true that attempting to vote while using the Facebook iPhone App is impossible. But you can access facebook through your Safari internet application, just like you would from a traditional desktop computer….
STEP #1 – Go to Safari and type facebook.com into the URL field. You will have to login to your Facebook account like normal. This will automatically take you to the mobile version of the site and it will look something like this:
STEP #2 – You won’t be able to access the voting from this mobile version, so you need to click on the three bar icon at the top left corner of your phone. This will cause the menu to appear in the left hand of your screen and should look something like this:
STEP #3 – Scroll down to the bottom of the menu and you will see a link for “Desktop Site” – click that to get to the full version of Facebook (the same version you typically see when using a regular computer). It should look like this:
STEP #4 – Now you are ready to access the site just like a desktop. Everything is very small, so you might take advantage of zooming in with your finger tips to make it easier to navigate. To get to the voting site, go to the search bar at the top and type in “WFAA project green” – the appropriate page should appear and you can click on it…
STEP #5 – vote for Serve Denton!!
HOW TO VOTE USING YOUR iPAD
This is actually much easier. Again, you can’t use the Facebook App to do it. Go to Safari and go to facebook.com. Login to your account and it should automatically take you to the full desktop version of the site. You can go to the WFAA Project Green page from there and it will work. If for some reason, you are directed to the mobile version of the site, follow the same steps for the iPhone and all should be well.
Now pass this around and get voting – remember, you can do it once a day PER COMPUTER through Sunday! Make all your votes count!