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As an amputee with a website (www.JoshSundquist.com), I frequently recieve emails from people looking for help. They write me to say they just lost a leg, or their friend just lost an arm, and were wondering what advice and information I can give them. Emails like this have only increased in the last several years due to the hundreds of amputees returning from combat in Iraq. In an effort to provide these people with better support than what I can give in an email, last year I launched a website called LessThanFour.org. (Get it?) Modeled loosely on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, LessThanFour.org is a place where amputees can ask questions, get answers, and meet others with similar disabilities. DoSomething recently selected me as a GameStop Grant winner. I used some of the money to buy search-based advertising on Google for search terms like "amputee community." Membership on the site as more than doubled since I started advertising. Thanks GameStop and DoSomething! Visit Less Than Four here: (www.LessThanFour.org)
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I thought of the idea last year. It just seemed like something that needed to be done, so I created the website. I expected that it would grow huge overnight--I imagined thousands of amputees coming to the site--but that didn't happen. What helped me grow was getting the GameStop grant, which allowed me to buy advertising on Google and Yahoo. Then CNN profiled it last month, and now membership has skyrocketed. LessThanFour now has 1,200 active members, many of them who blog and upload photos and videos every single day. The site also receives about 10,000 unique visitors per week, which is over a half million per year.

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