BlueWorld - Tools for Making a Difference
A recent article in Tech Crunch titled “Memo to Start-Ups: You’re Supposed to be Changing the World, Remember?” laments that many start-ups don’t have enough passion, not enough are swinging for the fences, and not enough are trying to change the world.
We’d like to tell you about a start-up that IS passionate, swinging for the fences, and trying to change the world.
BluWorld (http://www.bluworld.org) is an alliance of global NGOs, United Nations organizations and tech sector firms created to provide educational content, networking, mentoring, and volunteering and donation opportunities for those who want to make a difference in the world. Here are just a few of their initiatives:
BluMail - Email accounts that are an alternative to Hotmail or Yahoo so that each time users check their email, they are exposed to content and opportunities that will make a positive influence in their lives.
BluMentor - Successful professionals are matched with those who seek to be mentored in leadership and life skills through an online mentor-protégé matching system.
Daily Message - The Daily Message is a subscription-based messaging system that sends a daily message on conflict resolution, world religions, great quotations, world art, and quotes from world leaders.
Help Someone In Need- Matches individuals in need with those who want to help them. There are millions of us who DO care, who DO want to make a difference. Help Someone In Need is unique because you connect directly with the person in need.
Learning Center - Content is focused on conflict resolution, entrepreneurship, women's empowerment, youth leadership, healthy lifestyles, the environment, understanding religions, world knowledge, and human rights. We expose users to information and educational content that make a difference in someone's life.
Read / Share A Story; What Do YOU Think?; and Write About Your Life -- This trifecta of micro-networking websites fosters social networking for cross-cultural understanding and friendship across borders. Users share their story with the world and peer-to-peer networking happens when someone who is moved by that story reads and responds.
World’s Best Websites - 100 of the most interesting, educational, inspiring websites.
In the next one to five years, millions in developing countries will gain access to the Internet for the first time, and the opportunity to educate and inform is unprecedented.
BluMail partners with over 100 United Nations and global non-governmental organizations to raise global awareness for their missions with information targeted to youth in developing countries that is written in a simple, straightforward manner that can be easily understood in light of multiple language and cultural differences. The site is multi-lingual.
We encourage you to join – open a BluMail account, share your story, connect with someone in another country, help someone in need or just poke around the site.
We promise you’ll find something that can make a difference in your own life.
