I’m a web community guy.

A social change, social good, getting people together web guy.

Before I even started messing with web, I helped my college plan how to build better relationships with the community.

I used a group of websites to organize the activities of a student organization I helped start.

I used a website to organize and raise funds for a volunteer group I started in Peru.

For the last few months, I’ve been developing sites to help a family ministry nonprofit further its vision.

And I’m working on a project or two of my own, something along the lines of an “intentional lifestyle network”, or a “learning and action network”.

So that’s my background with web work.

My goal:

To grow communities and develop web systems that bless and benefit as many people as possible. 

A bit about my background, and why this is my focus:

Since a trip to Peru in ’09, I’ve been really into the idea of designing social network sites that better equip people to do grassroots community and collaboration. This started when I was trying to start an volunteer group for a Peruvian clinic’s spread-out volunteer community, and found it really difficult and time consuming to pull together communications solutions. I realized that I’m nerdier than most and most would have just given up. So it seems that my personal “charism” as I see it now is making spaces outside of but connected to FB & Twitter where spread-out people can gather in a more focused and well-equipped way to better do grassroots community & collaboration.