Big Ideas: Volunteer now! via mobile

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2008-10-20 16:26:00 UTC
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One of the cool ideas that social entrepreneurs are beginning to experiment with is using technology to help people harness little amounts of down-time to volunteer on small but important tasks. Check out the video below, a preview of TheExtraordinaries.org, a project launched by the founders of MobileVoter.org and launched as "Volunteer Now!" at the NetSquared Mashup Challenge earlier this year.

I'm interested to see what people think:

Would you use this? What are the types of things you'd be most interested in doing? Would this augment or replace your current volunteerism? Could such a short engagement ever mirror the feeling of more hands-on volunteering?

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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