Social Impact Social Media

In my  more than 2 years of blogging here  (my nonprofit social good blog) and at www.successsful-woment-blog.com,  my lifestyle and business resource blog,  this is the first I have found my subject matter appropriate for both. Social TV – Mashable was writing about it in 2011. Nielsen shared changes and visions of engaging viewers in content in 2013 as the engagement of consumers in content from one platform to another as a means of engaging consumers in ads. Cut to late 2013, early 2014--new visionaries are bringing to the table a new kind of Social TV and a new meaning for engaging with content. The visionaries I am talking about are philanthropist Jeff Skoll and CEO Jim Berk of Participant Media (and PivoTv and TAG Media), and Marc Erlbaum of Philadelphia-based startup Eflixir – delivering a streaming platform of socially meaningful and cause related films via Amazon. Erlbaum is also founder of Nationlight Productions producer of films  Café   with Jennifer Love Hewitt a

urbanharvester.org Founded by Linda Hess in 2009 South Pasadena-based Urban Harvester is a nonprofit solving multiple problems to the benefit of grocery stores, restaurants, food pantries providing services for the hungry and those in need of a healthy meal. According to the US Department of Agriculture 1 in 6 Americans go to be hungry every night. Data from The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicates that 40% of the food produced in the United States is discarded each year. Enter Urban Havester. In 2013 the organization recovered 30,000 fresh meals - that's 20 tons of fresh food rescued rather than wasted. To learn more or to donate to support their good work visit www.urbanharvester.org