Obama's super duper use of social media

If you have yet to see the USA Service website, stop what you are doing right now and check it out.



The site is a call to service from President Obama and allows for two key activities:

1. Finding service opportunities by type and location
2. Submitting an opportunity to serve

The focus and simplicity of the site is brilliant.

First of all, it allows for bite size activity, which means that if I am free on Saturday I can be of service that day, and I don't need to make a long-term commitment. So it allows me to "try out" different ways to be of service and it is also flexible to my schedule.

Second, it enables me to submit my own event. This option is significant because it suggests that, I, too, can effect change. Oh yes I can. And you can too.

It's what happens when you make a community organizer the President of the United States of America. And, in my opinion, it is awesome, inspiring and exactly what America needs right now.