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Free is Good: Yahoo! Promotes Reuse
Did you know that reuse groups, like last year's 3rd place NetSquared Innovation Award winner, Freecycle, are the most trafficked on Yahoo! Groups?
Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network
Yesterday we launched our interview series with the 21 projects that attended the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) by talking with Dan Newman of MAPLight.org. Today's interview is with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network, a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns.
"The Freecycle Network is an amazing Internet phenomenon."
That's what Fortune Senior Writer, Marc Gunther, wrote in his article for CNN Money, "The Amazing Freecycle Story," about the N2Y2 3rd place project winner.
In fact, Gunther is a Freecycle user himself:
MAPLight and Freecycle at Net Tuesday San Francisco July 10th
The presenters at the July 10th Net Tuesday in San Francisco 
will be from the first and third top vote-getting projects at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2): Dan Newman, Co-Founder and Executive Director of MAPLight.org and Ann Blocker, Moderator of the San Francisco Freecycle Network.
Videoblog: N2Y2, Richard Wallman, Freecycle
In this videoblog, Wallman of Freecycle.org describes how people use the web to keep "stuff" useful and out of the landfills. What started as a single local Yahoo group has mushroomed into a mountainous enterprise.
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Participants begin by joining (or creating) a Freecycle list focused on the area where they live. If they have something to give away, they post a message with the subject heading "Offered: Toaster Oven." If they are seeking an item, they post a message with the subject h... |
