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New Social Portal for Blood Donation: Thank Your Donor

Thank Your Donor — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:54:13 -0400

We've developed a new social portal that allows blood recipients to say thanks to their unknown donors. Thank Your Donor gives a chance for people to hear all the positive effects that their blood donations are having.

We're hoping this will encourage more people to donate!

Check out one of the videos that a recipient made to say thanks:

Youtube Channel

Young Caucasus Women Project

kanter — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:11:39 -0500

Britt Bravo and I have the pleasure of being the blogging mentors this week on the Young Caucasus Women Project. Our assignment was to write an essay on the topic of "Who's your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer, or musician) and why?"

Here are our posts:

Britt Bravo: Art for Social Change
Beth Kanter: Are You An Artist too?

The young women were given the same assignment and part of our tasks as Mentors was read and comment on their work. It has been a delightful experience and it's also helped me expand my world music collection. They've recommended some terrific musicians and music from their countries.

Here's the posts - read and comment:

Leyla has a hard time choosing one favorite artist.

Circle of Life - Julia Butterfly Hill's Blog

Paul Treadwell — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:18:00 -0500

Project Screenshot

Supporting organization

Circle of Life Foundation

URL

www.circleoflifefoundation.org/index.html

Project Description

"Circle of Life operates from a deep belief in the interdependence and interconnection of all life. Our commitment is to transform the way humans interact with the Earth and with all living beings.

Circle of Life is a stand for peace, justice and environmental sustainability; and in that space, we create powerful events and meaningful opportunities for people and organizations to make a difference in the world we share." - From CoL web site

The Circle of Life site reflects the stated belief of interdependence from the start. The main page offers the viewer a number of different direction sin which to move. The focus of this case study, though, is on the integration of a blog, by Julia Butterfly Hill, into the main page content.

A blog can provide a very effective way of creating new front page content which can be easily updated by users without a boatload of technical expertise. By integrating latest blog posts on the main page, the Circle of Life site provides repeat visitors with a quick entry into fresh content and a snapshot glimpse into the current activities and thoughts of Julia Hill.