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Make Happy Happen

Make Happy Happen is a website I created in the fall of 2011 that facilities personal promises, promotes social sharing to inspire others, and provides relevant, local resources to help users act on their promises.The site is a response to the corporate greed and shopping frenzies of the holiday season, which shields us from the fact many families cannot afford new toys for their children, and for the sick, homeless, and lonely, the holidays can be the most trying time of the year.Make Happy Happen is an attempt to get people to do good deeds rather than buy needless trinkets.The site uses the Facebook and Twitter APIs for social login, which attaches your name and profile picture to your promise. Users have the option of sharing their promise with their friends and followers. To help users find ways to fulfill their promise, the site looks for keywords in promises and searches for relevant resources. Using the user's location from their Facebook or Twitter profile, or their browsers's geolocation API, users are presented with a map of local resources that relate to their promise. For example, if I promised to "help an elderly neighbor," I would see a map of nursing homes in my area, along with their contact information.Coverage:  amNY  School of Visual Arts Blog/Email Blast  SVA Graphic Design and Advertising Blog  Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Twitter  EdGeeks.com  Nourish Fashion ShowLive site