Share Some Sugar Goes Social! New Updates & Features!

New Features Have Launched! After lots of hard work, we are proud to announce some exciting new (and useful) features to Share Some Sugar! It's now easier for you to share, borrow and have a great experience in your neighborhood! Thanks for all of your great feedback. It helped us improve the site to meet (and hopefully exceed) your needs!

Here's a flavor of what you can experience now on Share Some Sugar:

Sharing Groups: Share Within Your Social Network! Now you can now share with people you know and trust. Create your own Sharing Groups and invite your friends from Facebook or by entering their email addresses. Click 'Create New Group' and follow the steps from there!

Wishlist: We'll Help You Find Things That You Need! Looking for something that hasn't been posted yet? Add it to your wishlist and we'll notify you as soon as someone has posted it. Click 'Add to My Wishlist'!

And lots, lots more!
- Merge Your Facebook account with Share Some Sugar to take full advantage of our new features.
- Search and browse for items within your Friends, Groups and your Neighborhood.
- Item icons are now pictures of the exact item so it's easier to visually browse and borrow.
- Neighborhood Buzz: see what your friends (and groups) are sharing, borrowing and wishing for.

We love hearing from you- so send us your ideas or just let us know how we're doing, so we can continue to improve the Share Some Sugar experience!

Your Neighbors,
Shugie (your favorite neighbor) & Keara (Share Some Sugar founder)

The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

I came across this video (via Shareable, one of my favorite blogs)that does a fantastic job highlighting the future of conusmption: Collaborative Consumption. It's amazing how many different solutions people, company and organizations are coming up with all with the goal of reducing wasteful spending and consumption of newly produced goods. From bikeshare programs to ZipCar and their new app which 100,000 people in the first week to bartering services and gifting economies.... we are just on the cusp of a new mode of consumption.

The interesting thing is that most of these new service based ideas all intrinsically connect people to each other in different ways. If it's meeting a new person when you pick up an item on freecycle or unlocking a rental bike at a bike sharing rack and meeting someone doing the same thing... peers, people with similar interest are connecting in ways that have not been common in a long time.

It's an exciting time right now and we're exciting to be a part of this socioeconomic shift!

Check out the awesome video!