Jumo Mixes Social Activism and Facebook for a Global Crowd

Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook and the social media expert behind Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has now launched a new social network designed exclusively for social activism. The idea behind the new site, called Jumo, is to help users find causes that mean a lot to them, and strengthen their ties with other, similarly minded activists.

Hughes announced the project back in March, when he told the LA Times that he had decided to develop the network after spending a year traveling in Asia, Africa and Latin America. "You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. There are not even a single set of solutions or strategies that are going to be the answer to all of these challenges," he explained. "Instead, you have to support all the individuals and organizations working on the ground doing good, valuable work."

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