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On Friday, June 4, at exactly 1 p.m. about 200 people opened umbrellas and started dancing outside a restaurant in Elgin, Illinois, as the Rihanna song "Umbrella" blared from a portable stereo. When the music stopped, everyone packed up their umbrellas and left while the curious lunchtime crowd watched and took pictures.

This festive scene repeated itself in cities across the United States including, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington. It may have looked spontaneous, but organizer Sarah Evans says it took about a month to put Social Mob 4 Good events together.

Evans is a public relations and new media consultant in Elgin, and thought the flash mobs would be a good way to draw attention to the challenges local social service agencies are facing. She used facebook, a Google group, Twitter and other social media tools to recruit local organizers and coordinate the events.

Many participants used CNN iReport to spread the word about the flash mobs. You can go to the assignment page to see their photos and videos and learn more about some of the agencies they were supporting.

Nakeva Corothers says that her small group got a lot of double takes when they started dancing in Washington's DuPont Circle, but said they achieved their goal. "When the music started people stopped to hear and see what we were talking about under those twirling umbrellas," she said.

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Hippie Operative Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off


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