Mashable is using their influence to help change the world. They’ve declared Thursday September 23rd, 2010 as #SocialGood Day during UN week, and we’re joining in!
#socialgood is the hashtag being used on twitter to identify all posts about the topic.
From the Mashable page:
“We want you to get involved, so we’ve gotten together with our friends at (RED), who work to eliminate AIDS in Africa, to invite you to attend or organize a meetup in your community to celebrate, share, educate and engage in a discussion on how social media can be used to tackle some of the world’s social challenges and issues.
We’re interested in unleashing fresh thinking about how social media can raise awareness and create solutions for social issues around the world. It starts with each community coming together and contributing ideas and, more importantly, solutions. Whatever community you’ll be participating in we want to know, ‘What’s your solution?’ Let the world hear your ideas through social media!”
Read more about how you can participate in #SocialGood day.
Our Contribution
Not only are we attending the Toronto mashup for #socialgood tonight, we’ve decided to donate all earnings to various social charities during the remainder of September and October, each week donating earnings to a different social charity!
For the remainder of September, we’ll donate all earnings to UnLtd India – they “find, fund and support exceptional individuals whose ideas, passion and entrepreneurial skills can bring about long-term solutions to India’s social problems.”
At the beginning of each week we will announce which new social charity we will donate all that week’s earnings to.
Wanna Help? List Your Site & Your $10 Gets Donated!
If you’d like to help us, you can donate directly to the charity we select, or if you are in the internet or social media business, list your site in our B2B social media services directory – we’ve already discounted signups to $10 until November, but now getting your site listed in our directory not only means you get great industry exposure and links, you are contributing to #socialgood.
Isn’t changing the world fun?!
