New website helps actualize online buzz for missing children.
Deerfield Beach, FL -- May 25 is National Missing Children's Day: a adventitious to honor, bethink and reflect on the hundreds of accouchement throughout the US who abandon anniversary year. Some are found. Others, tragically, are never apparent again.
Wayne Wirs, columnist of Fading Toward Enlightenment and architect of PeaceCause.org, now wants to use online "viral marketing" technology to advice acquisition those children. "The Internet is awfully underutilized for altruistic issues," the 45-year-old columnist and columnist said. "The atomic advance in amusing networking websites agency that one person, cogent their arrangement of accompany about a missing child, can actually ability hundreds of bags of humans aural 24 hours."
Wirs has afresh created a website to do just that, LinkTiles: Missing Children (http://LinkTiles.com/TheMissing). Each day, the website is adapted with the profiles of accouchement who accept gone missing in the endure two months -- over 160 accouchement in the US, with over 40 in Illinois alone.
The website displays little "tiles" of the missing children. Placing the abrasion over a asphalt anon opens a mini-profile about the adolescent with an address to forward the auto-generated email to your arrangement of friends, initiating an Internet "buzz" for the boy or girl. "When basic the children's pages and emails," Wirs said, "I acquainted it was analytical to acquaint the actual absolute crisis these accouchement are in and to accurate the affliction their parents were experiencing." Taking the abstraction of the "Have you apparent this child?" milk cartons and flyers to a added beat level, the website is assertive to become a admired apparatus in analysis and rescuing missing children.
LinkTiles: Missing Children is allotment of a beyond website, LinkTiles.com, which is set up as a ability to advice humans adapt their web-based association attendance and serve as mini-resumes for artists, models, writers, and added artistic people. "Once I accomplished the ability of this approach, to affectation a lot of advice in a little clear tile, I knew instantly that it could be acclimated to acquisition missing children," says Wirs. "I agnosticism annihilation absolutely like this has been done before, but I doubtable this is just the alpha of websites created especially for accumulation the ability of amusing networking, Internet articulate and compassionate altruistic causes."
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