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The power of social media for Hurricane Sandy

ASU Lodestar Center

Any donations that were dropped off at A Family Storage would then be moved in a Cool Box container up to Hurricane Sandy relief centers. We first set up our campaign to geo-target our location which was specifically Tucson, based on the companies’ location. Facebook allowed us. Our ad showed up on over 15,000 profiles.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

It's pretty amazing what these folks have created, like Dan Newman, the Executive Director and Co-founder of MAPLight.org , a non-partisan non-profit that illuminates the connection between money and politics (you can read my interview with him here ). Because I'm sitting out here in Tucson, Arizona where there are more cows than computers.