tuggl.com is an exciting new web site that connects people with local businesses that are giving back to their community, allowing everyone to find the local goods and services they need while supporting causes that speak to their heart.

In this session, we will introduce tuggl to attendees, and explain how:

*1)* tuggl makes it possible for consumers to always know what businesses their friends recommend, which ones support causes they care about, and how to raise money for those causes just by using tuggl

*2)* businesses can now be rewarded with more customers because of their community involvement and commitment to environmental sustainability, control their marketing budgets by paying what they want for new customers, and only pay when potential customers contact them directly

*3)* local nonprofit organizations can increase donations, strengthen their relationships with current business supporters, and bring in new business and individual support, just by thanking local businesses that support their cause in any way.

We will then have an open discussion about how each member of the tuggl community - whether individual consumer, local business, or nonprofit - fits in to create a more complete, simpler way for the modern consumer to find the right local business, and also what we can do to make the tuggl community better. Feel free to join the conversation to talk about your experience as a community-oriented businessperson, a conscious consumer, or government/nonprofit sector employee, the use of technology in your work or purchasing life, and ways that we can work together to improve the community around us.

About the Speaker:
Matt Buchanan is the CEO & Co-Founder of tuggl.com. He has been working with small business owners for years to help them grow using the power of the web, and came to Denver in order to help the best and most responsible businesses do the same. Matt has worked as a business and government consultant and in the nonprofit sector, from Washington, DC to Cairo, Egypt, before returning to the United States to join the re-invigoration of the web technology movement. Matt became a Co-Founder of Sagax Media, LLC, which continues to help small business owners grow their businesses online, and moved to Denver in the summer of 2008 to start the social venture which became tuggl.com. Matt is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in Human & Organizational Development.