Stephen's got Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, promoting Jumo.com. From its About page:
Jumo is a social network connecting individuals and organizations who want to change the world.
Leveraging connection technologies, Jumo enables people to find, follow and support those working toward solutions on the ground in their community and in regions across the globe.
Jumo is founded and directed by Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
Why Jumo?
Founded in February 2010, Jumo set out to address three key challenges:
* There are millions of people working to improve the lives of others, many of whom lack the resources to have greatest impact.
* There are millions more who want to help, but don’t know how.
* Despite huge advancements in connection technologies, it’s hard to find meaningful opportunities to get involved.
We believe we can do better.
What we do
Jumo makes it easy to:
* Find the issues and organization you care about
* Follow the latest news and updates
* Support their work with your time, money and skills.
Together we can speed the pace of global change.
There's an assortment of business-oriented articles floating around, and Craig Newmark pulled some reviews-and-such together in a Huffpo piece from 11/30/10, when the beta opened up. It's still in beta, and requires Facebook to use (though maybe not for all its features -- ?). And since I'm not on Facebook and already have a beta site to agonize about enthusiastically explore and eagerly await, I'm not putting any more time in on this. They are hiring, though:
As a web start-up with an ambitious global mission, Jumo attracts a particular kind of person. We're currently looking to hire hard-working individuals who value intellectual challenge, appreciate the importance of online networking technology, and, most importantly, want to change the world.
If you want to do meaningful work with a team of intellectual partners, see the position openings below.
Candidates who have a longstanding interest in global development issues (i.e. global health, good governance, education, free-flowing capital markets, etc.) are strongly preferred.
Jumo is located in New York, NY. All positions are open immediately.
Monetization Director
Front End Web Developer
Web Developer
System Operations and Back-end Engineer
Analytics Director
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