This article talks about the social networking website started by the actor Edward Norton called Crowdrise.com. According to this article, Mr. Norton believes strongly in "marrying technology and philanthropy", and aims to convert the younger generation of donors to online giving.
Mr. Norton says that today, social networking offers "a new way of getting people together to create power in numbers...and more than that, it can help users express themselves through the causes they support."
As I've mentioned before, Parental Unit was chosen as one of 10 bloggers to be sponsored by Pedigree to attend the BlogPaws West conference to help promote their online blogging campaign benefitting dogs in shelters. Just scroll down a bit and you can read the several recent posts Parental Unit and I have written about their campaign. (Hey, forgive the repetition, but I'm proud of the old gal!) Well, it seems to me that Pedigree, the BlogPaws team, and the hundreds of bloggers that are participating in Pedigree's "Write a Post, Feed a Dog" campaign are doing just that: getting together through social media to raise, in this case, donations of dog food to shelters that are in desperate need in these difficult economic times.
So where does the dancing dog come in? On You-Tube of course! You-Tube has for many years been a beloved social media tool and a force for...well, at least entertainment, and this video, which so far has garnered several million hits, is no exception. Parental Unit promised me that if I put up this video, she would never put any kind of costume on me or teach me to dance! While this isn't exactly the kind of gallant, human-dog partnership I imagine, it sure is entertaining-and this beautiful Golden Retriever really can dance, dance, dance!
Enjoy it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9xq-TVyH
And, fellow bloggers, you've still got time to sign up for the Pedigree BlogHop and to write that post!
Meanwhile, I'm getting on the phone to my agent-I need some You-Tube exposure.
