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Interplast

Supporting organization:
http://www.interplast.org
URL:
interplast.blogs.com
Project Description:

Interplast is a client of Mentor Matching, the volunteer matching program that I manage at CompuMentor. They contacted me to find a volunteer to help with their blogs and to add RSS, podcasting, and live chat rooms. Their website describe themselves as: "... the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive plastic surgery in developing countries. It makes a direct and profound difference in the lives of 3,000 children each year who suffer physically or emotionally from a congenital deformity or injury."

The surgical volunteer staff upload information to the blogs from the worksite. It's a very powerful example of capturing what happens on the ground in these international volunteer projects. In addition to this blog they also have what they call "Ground Rounds", which helps to fulfill another area of their mission which is to provide medical education and tools for collaboration with surgeons in developing countries.

 

Points of interest:

I was impressed with the work that their doing and how much I was moved by the blog. Thought it was a natural case study for Net2. I'm still a newbie to the world of web2.0 and am interested to hear from some of you more seasoned 2.0 enthusiasts comments on their use of what's out there.

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