Gov 2.0 Idea Starter: Using social media to bring about reforms / prevent another housing bubble

 

Attending Gov 2.0 Camp New England at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  You can watch online at http://bit.ly/gov20ne.  Hope others in attendance and online participate in these real estate roundtables and ongoing working groups.  Follow http://Twitter.com/RealEstateCafe for more information.

TOPIC REQUEST / IDEA STARTER: With one in four homeowners upside down on their mortgage, how can social media be used to:

1. Bring about long overdue real estate reforms to prevent another housing bubble, and

2. Create a national network of self-aggregating, local home buyer clubs?

3. If appropriate, can post a link to 12 idea starters (eg. Should BLIND bidding wars be regulated? Best tools to launch eCampaign / Implement regs) or share privately.

4. If anyone else is interested, need to schedule round table BEFORE NOON and would like to encourage housing advocates, foreclosure prevention counselors, and real estate consumer advocates nationwide to participate online.

Bottomline: Goal is to seed working groups eager to use social media to develop reform agenda and implement / public information / education campaign.  Follow http://Twitter.com/RealEstateCafe for more information or email The Real Estate Cafe.

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TwitterVigil: World AIDS Day 2008

Watch:  http://urltea.com/2946

Follow:  http://twitter.com/realestatecafe

Home buyers and sellers, as well as anyone in the real estate industry, are invited to observe World AIDS Day 2008 by brainstorming about real estate fund raising
strategies for AIDS orphans.  Here’s one proposal / idea starter:  Develop local PledgeBanks
for communities to raise funds, and potentially challenge other
cities to friendly fund raising competitions.  Alumni groups can use to challenge their rivals
to annual fund raising competitons, see blog posts re: Million $ March.

Add you own ideas below, on the AIDS Shelter Alliance Partners wiki, on ChangeAgents, or via Twitter during our World AIDS Day TwitterVigil.  If you live in Boston, join us on today, December 1, 2007 at Medicine Wheel’s award-winning AIDS vigil.

Conversation starter:

Should local AIDS Shelter Alliance Partners create a badge so
home buyers and sellers can invite friends to sign an ASAPledge via their profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, or any of the other cause networking sites
featured in the Wall Street Journal article entitled:  New Generation Reinvents Philanthropy?  Visit these links for more
information on the proposed ASAP demonstration project and real estate philanthropy in general.

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