19 Plus Things You Can Do to Help Others on MLK Day

Monday January 19th (the day before the historic inauguration of Obama) is Martin Luther King Day a national day of service here in the United  States. One of my blog mentors Seth Godin has come up with some excellent idea’s we can do to be of service to others. But in his great fashion his suggestions are web 2.0 style. Seth has 18 ways you can be of service to others online.  I am throwing in my 2 cents (or 2 suggestions). Below (plus the link to the rest of the story) are 20 suggestions you can use to be of service to others online.

Darren Scott Monroe Suggestion #19 Share online resources / tools with others to help them. Monday I am posting a listing of several sites and tools you can use to benefit your business in a variety of ways.

Darren Scott Monroe Suggestion #20 Promote (5) friends in your network to your network for no reason at all. Make sure you have a short reason why you chose them. Promote to your MySpace, Linkedin, facebook, Twitter.

Seths suggestions:

1. Read a copy of the Lorax to a child that’s never heard it.
2. Teach someone how to sell their services on Craigslist, or how to use the web to find a job.
3. Build a Squidoo lens every day for a year about a favorite author or musician and dedicate the proceeds to charity. 300 a year could earn tens of thousands of dollars for a cause you care about. That adds up to serious money.
4. Start a blog and profile one worthy non-profit every single day.
5. Go through your house and find beloved books that you’re glad you read… and give them to the library.
6. Find an artisan and redesign their website or help them figure out how to promote their work.
7. Create and promote an online petition for a cause you care about.
8. Make a video that teaches people how to do better in a job interview or balance a checkbook or spot consumer fraud.
9. Start a facebook group for like-minded people who support the same non-profit you do. Commit to spending time to promote it, organize the people there and actually create outcomes of value.
10. Seek out a religion that isn’t yours and volunteer to help build a bridge between your circle and theirs.

Read 11 – 18  here

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