New social network for change agents and supporters

A growing phenomenon can be seen among what demographers call Generation Y youth (also called baby-boom echo or on-line generation), essentially those who were born after 1978. More and more members of this demographic group want to see social changes and want to be change agents for doing so. Two such people, Alex Hofmann and Deron Triff were already well on their way in business careers in media and entertainment when they learned about Scott Harrison, a Gen-Y-er who is busy digging clean water wells in Africa. Hoffmann and Triff wondered how they could get behind Scott Harrison, get to know him, be connected with him and help him. Then they wondered if they could get behind and help other people like Harrison.

Putting their creative minds together, and having grown up as on-liners, Hofmann and Triff came up with a master touch: a web site for helping change agents get their stories out and linking them up with supporters. Their social web site is called www.Changents.com, a site where any change agent can tell his/her story and where others who would like to join in a particular venture can connect with the specific change agent. Take for example the rock musician, Brad Corrigan. Corrigan found a cardboard community in Nicaragua that lived on a land fill. Moved to help them, he began to combine his concerts and music with story telling in hopes of getting people to make a commitment to join with him in helping this community. Now Brad Corrigan is posted on Changents where anyone can get behind him in this intervention.

Changents can make any social entrepreneur or environmental innovator into an internet celebrity where backers, those who want to help, can join to help spread the word. Changents brokers a relationship between agents and their supporters. And anyone may nominate someone who they feel is an agent doing something worth getting behind. Agents then get an exciting set of tools on Changents, that allows them to build their team and effort. To test this, I decided to join Changents as a social change agent wanting to help bring a transformation to the schools of our world by encouraging collaboration and democratic leadership. Though far removed in age from Gen Y-ers, I found that just as Deron Tiff had said to me in an interview, Changents is both focused on the youth and inclusive of all change agents. Once I joined, I saw quickly that both founders posted themselves as backers of my mission and they posted an Action Pack (one of the site's tools) for anyone wanting to join in this endeavor. It's that easy and yet it's potential is profound, especially as the site matures into additional tools currently being developed.

So, if you are someone who has a desire to be a change agent or would rather get behind and support one who is already underway, you can find a way to tell your story and or connect with others through the services of www.Changents.com