social networking
Last updated by Rizwan on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:52.
The Urban Survival Project aims to provide an open source portal of condensed and key information for young people struggling to get through education or work. It will hopefully achieve this by enabling a socially networked pool of young professionals over the web who can not only help provide support and bring this information together, but also become an open volunteer resource for social organisations in general. The four key themes will probably be as follows: Surviving Education, Surviving Work, Surviving Small Businesses, and Surviving Life.
Last updated by cvotaku on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 12:47.
We live in an area that is rural (the Panhandle of Nebraska), even though our city is the hub of the panhandle and on any given weekend draws kids from miles around. There are certain parking lots and parks where the youth tend to congregate and hang out. Recently our youth center acquired a cargo van. Our desire is to make that cargo van into a mobile video gaming unit. Our plan is to drive it around and wherever we see a group of kids gathered, we'd pull up with "Guitar Hero" or "Rock Band" and hang out with the kids.
Last updated by iholeman on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 12:14.
We are in the process of building a social networking platform for forward thinking students and active members of civil society. We look to adopt the the tools that have been designed by the corporations that drive consumption, and adapt them to achieve personal inspiration and broad civic engagement. We believe providing a user oriented information management network that filters out less important information and highlights information based on user-specific relevancy will make activists more efficient and effective, as well as happier.
Last updated by iholeman on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 17:33.
We are in the process of building a social networking platform for forward thinking students and active members of civil society. Our venture will be called SquarePeg, and will use the url SquarePegged.org.
Web based social networking is an exploding trend, but many of the social tools driving corporate expansion have yet to be adapted to the goals of inspired change makers. We work under the assumption that, when presented with the right opportunity or information, everyone has the potential to be inspired, and that each inspired individual can and will promote social progress.
Last updated by stit0177 on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 14:51.
I brought a group of elementary students and a group of high school students together stuck them in the same room and let their minds go wild. The goal for the day was to have them meet new people both of the group and many extremely shy people but by the end of the session everyone new everyone else and were coming up to me asking when we would be doing this again. Now once every two weeks I bring these groups together with some new faces and let the process start all over again.
Last updated by JoshSundquist on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 10:23.
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.
