If you could get listed on Google within a few hours while building great quality links and spreading your message all over the place, would you do it? This is actually very easy to do with online news releases and is one of the most powerful, effective, yet inexpensive techniques for promoting your online presence. Speaker Thomas Petty.

Quarter 1, 2010. At the February Meetup we will discuss projects, new relationships through Collaborate for Africa, progress on the Give Bank project, and start assembling teams from our group. We use the Meetup system for collaborative projects and networking amongst industrial/product designers and cultural creatives interested in raising people out of poverty through product design. "490" comes from "FOR the other 90 percent," also referring to Paul Polak's work (google him too if you don't know him) and his wish to turn around the fact that 90% of designers work for the richest 10%.