In Oktober 1999 four friends and I founded BMSO New Media GmbH in order to carry out the project onium.com - the help company.

The idea is to run a free online charity game. When you visit ONIUM, you can donate and win quickly and easily. Every day, participants can play and simultaneously increase the donations paid by our sponsors to UNICEF and the WWF. The advertising revenues that ONIUM receives are handed out to the visitors as prize money through the game except for 30% which will go to the selected charities. These donations are made quarterly. So far we where able to generate over 10.000€ in donations for our partners UNICEF and WWF.

From left to right: Dirk von Meer was in charge of strategic marketing, cool guy living in Hamburg, used to work for S&J, founded m brandconsulting group, and recently founded elbberg media where he works as CEO. Stefan Weber is my good friend from Chile, who I studied with in Karlsruhe, he now also lives and works in Vienna. Myself. The guy down low is Claas Morlang, also a very good friend of mine. After finishing his PhD in Ingostadt he got employed at UNHCR and is now travelling the world on behalf of the United Nations. The good-looking guy to the right is Nico Schmidt-Offhaus who I also know from my time in Karlsruhe. We studied together and founded the software company <sitewaerts> where he still works as CEO.

Above you see the original screen design of onium.com - the help company. The design was generously provided by elephantseven.


The idea of making a free charity game, was picked up well by the media as can be seen from the following pictures.

This picture is taken from the print-magazine "Gold", May 11th, 2000.

This picture is taken from the print-magazine "Der Spiegel", May 15th, 2000.

The picture below is taken from the print-magazine "BLOND", May 2002. Note the beautiful motive in the upper part of the picture. This was actually a post-card that was generously produced for us by Edgar Cards.