Shareable, a great site on strategies for sharing, invited us to write a how-to piece last January, and now they have featured the article How to Throw a Community Swap Meet in their editors’ top ten list! Hopefully this will inspire even more people to read the article and organizing similar events in their communities.

Shareable, June 28, 2010
Best of Shareable, Part II: Top 10 Editors’ Picks

This is a wonderfully useful case study in city-wide sharing and countercultural community building, of which we have many. Why did this one stick in our editors’ minds? I’m not sure, but I do tend to use it as an example of an archetypical Shareable DIY piece, when asked for one.