Here’s an interesting project to keep an eye on – a collection of case studies of "how nonprofits and social change makers are using social networks to get the word out and inspire action."
It's a wiki, so anyone can contribute their examples to the pages. The Frozen Pea Fund is there, as well as a Second Life scavenger hunt for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
A group of Austin-based ASIers volunteered at the Special Olympics Texas offices to do data entry to ensure a quality and fair competition for the athletes, as well as to verify athlete medical information for safety purposes. Eight of us came for a four hour shift, and we started out at the computers, entering the names and birth dates for athletes in training. Greg found the oldest athlete at age 70, and age 6 was our youngest athlete. Kids are allowed to start training at age 6, even though they don’t compete until age 8. As a baby name buff, I enjoyed seeing the names – from Amiracle to Blaze.
A group of eight of us packed some bags of food for some elementary students first, and next we did some food drive reclamation which involves cleaning and inspecting the donated food.
Our quality assurance specialists Judy Rodriguez and Gary Hogan did a fine job of ensuring nothing got past them that wasn't supposed to!
My first five days at ASI in Austin, TX have been enlightening and not frightening. I'm enjoying the environment. So far this company feels a lot like the small company, Entek, that I worked for in Cincinnati, OH. I'm the new technical writer on the CRM team and I have a lot to learn before I can write much, but I'm happy to be here, and looking forward to being able to contribute. I won't write many blog entries here since my blogging energy goes to www.justwriteclick.com, but I wanted to try out the imiscommunity blog interface and introduce myself.
