One Fine Day

OpenSky Goodness Channel Presents Julianne Moore for Save the Children

Take a look at that headline. About a year ago, our CEO, John Caplan, and I discussed launching the OpenSky Goodness Channel—in which we could use the power of our network not only to enable discovery of the best products curated by trusted experts for our members, but we could also do some good. A year later, here we are.

I am thrilled and honored that our first Goodness Channel event is to partner with Julianne Moore and Save the Children on the sale of their limited-edition Valentine’s Day cards. My husband and I have been buying these cards every year since Julianne started the tradition five years ago, so it is a treasured Valentine’s Day event in our house.

This year, Julianne selected some of her very favorite children’s book authors and illustrators to create the designs, and they are fantastic—filled with love and spirit. My daughters can’t wait to receive theirs in the mail and get to work on creating their class Valentines. I had a few samples, so I was able to give them a preview!  

Each and every penny of the purchase price of the cards is going to the critical domestic health and education programs of Save the Children, a cause that is a very personal one for Julianne, as you can read about here and here.

I’m also delighted that we are able to augment our cards offer with another offer: all three of Julianne’s incredible Freckleface Strawberry books, signed by Julianne.  These books are just the best, all about being yourself, and are beloved by my daughters. What a great gift this bundle is for a special kid in your life, or for all the birthday parties kids go to. I think this is one gift that the other parents will really be excited for their kids to get! OpenSky will be donating all of our proceeds from the books to Save the Children.

So—bottom line: I hope that everyone who reads this will consider purchasing these great cards for their Valentine’s Day celebrations, and the Freckleface Strawberry books for all the kids you know. You will know that you are making a difference for kids across our country and giving them a better chance in life. Thanks to Julianne and Save the Children for partnering with us. I’m looking forward to working with both again. And thanks to you for reading. Watch this space for more news on the OpenSky Goodness Channel.

OpenSky curators

Dear friends and colleagues,

I’m writing to you about OpenSky, where I have been working for the last year and a half. (As many of you know—working like an insane demon…)
I came to OpenSky because it was a company with a vision I believed in.  As someone who had been in book publishing for 20 years, and a book-lover my entire life, I know that books change lives.  Fiction, of course—but also the non-fiction cookbooks, style books, books by experts whose work changed how I approached things.  And I knew that when I loved a book, I wanted more from that author and often I wanted the products I needed to implement those ideas.  
OpenSky’s vision is to buy things from people whose work you know and trust so you can discover new ideas and products.   And that’s what we’ve done—we’ve got some of the world’s experts in the categories of food, healthy living, style, and design—and on OpenSky you can follow them and get their offers of great products.   The food offers have been particularly incredible recently.   
Some of our curators are Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, Molly Sims, Dorie Greenspan, Bobby Flay, Preston Bailey, Alicia Silverstone, Mariel Hemingway, and many more.
This email has two purposes:  first, to ask you to join OpenSky and see what you think.  It would be a great favor to me—and if you could join today or tomorrow, it would really help.  Please send me your feedback!
Second—my job here is to bring in more amazing experts, authors, media personalities—people who you want to receive recommendations from and who you would want to follow on OpenSky.  I’m about to embark on the next wave of business development and would love to talk with any of you who represent a great candidate.  We are particularly looking for new curators who are social-media savvy—who have developed a relationship with their audience.  OpenSky can build on those relationships to create a great new business for the curator.  Please be in touch!  Also:  OpenSky works fast—so forget “let’s talk in the fall”—this is happening now.
Please help me and join today—here’s the link:  http://osky.co/k8W7l7  Please also feel free to send this to friends who might be interested, and please paste this link to your Facebook or Twitter accounts.  
I really appreciate your support!!!
Yours,Mary Ann

Time to Join OpenSky

Hi everyone—as I’m sure you know by now, I work at OpenSky and it has become really amazing in the last few months.  I would love it if you guys would join—see below—and if you have any comments, let me know.  Also, if you have any ideas for great curators (or have anyone you want to pitch me), let me know!  And feel free to share this message with your friends. I’ve put everything into building this company over the last year and a half, and I’m excited to get to this point.  I hope you join, and I really appreciate it.  

http://osky.co/k8W7l7

Mary Ann

Benefit for PS321—My New OpenSky Shop

Hi All,  I’m in the process of building out a new project that I’m very excited about.  My daughter’s school is a New York City public school, and like other NYC-area schools, has had drastic budget cuts this year.  Our school sent out a letter to parents asking for creative responses to raise money.  Working at OpenSky, I thought I had a great platform for fundraising at my disposal—so now I am creating an OpenSky shop and asking family and friends to buy something to support Jojo’s school.  For each item, I will donate my total earnings to the school—in most cases, that is about 20% of the retail price.  I’m getting started with an eclectic group of products that I love—some toys, some jewelry, a Vita-Mix  blender (!)—but the possibilities for what I can sell are almost limitless.  So let me know if you’d like to support PS 321 by making a purchase, and if you don’t see something you like, suggest something and I’ll see what I can do!  Here’s the link to my shop.  Please tell me what you think.  I’ll be updating frequently and letting you all know my progress.  https://shopopensky.com/manaples/shop

Thanks for any help you can give!

Mary Ann