Blair Golson
May 28, 2008 |
2:32 am EST
Live from the Netsquared conference in San Jose, CA: 21 non-profit finalists are competing to win $50,000 in prize money for the most innovative use of social media for social good.
Here’s an interesting one:
Ben Rigby of Mobilevoter.org’s Volunteer Now! project, which gives users mobile alerts on volunteer projects they can partake in at that very moment
My take: Very cool idea. Meets people where they are. Makes altruism easy. Big fan.
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