About three years ago, I was a teacher at a small charter school in San Carlos, California. One of my 14-year-old students was diagnosed with leukemia. Her family's battle to find bone marrow donors was really gut-wrenching. A few weeks ago, local tech events guru Christian Perry wrote a posting on this blog about how to get people to show up at events. Well, if it's just a party or a networking event, then showing up is good enough.
But sometimes, people and organizations need to use social media to do really important things, like save lives. As profiled in Now Is Gone, the Red Cross has been using social media for nearly a year now to do this. And we have a special interview on Thursday with an individual in San Francisco who used social media to do just that - to help save the lives of two friends, one of whom invented something that many of our readers use every day. Stay tuned. It's a busy week on MetzMash.
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