As a teen, every summer was filled with tons of community service. Our church youth group had a team that met three days a week for a month to volunteer to do good deeds. We clean gutters, worked in soup kitchens, deep cleaned homeless shelters, and did yard work for shut-ins all while having fun with 25 of your good friends. When that was done, many of us went on to volunteer as camp counselors for our state’s Muscular Dystrophy summer camp.

I’m facinated with how the internet is changing the face of communities. It inspires. It facilitates. Its just plain cool. So it should not be a surprise that I’ve been cruising the blogosphere lately on the topic of using the internet for social change.

As a product of my search, I happened across this great blog: Hercity.org It is the blog of Girls for Social Change.

Holy cow! I wish we had blogging when I was young. I remember those summer projects with great clarity. How cool would it have been to be a part of a nationwide, heck… worldwide, movement of community service kids?

Granted, we all knew that we were making a difference in our little corner of the world. However, this new trend would have allowed us to know that together with folks across the world could really come together to make a huge difference in the world.

Check the Girls out and drop them a comment!

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