Social Networking for a Cause By Tim Yu
…online communities are still largely about socializing and/or wasting time. Their potential as powerful tools for the greater good—beyond finding out where the party’s at—has been largely untapped, but we managed to find a few. The following are some of the latest and best sites where social networking meets social change…
These include sites like Freecycle.org…Combining social networking with the environmental movement, the four year-old site Freecycle creates a global gift economy in an nonprofit online community. If you’re looking for a bike, someone might be throwing one out on Freecycle. Reducing unnecessary waste, Freecycle is a “cyber curbside” that connects people and decreases our impact on the environment…