Posted in 2.0 Collaboration, Good Cause, Innovation, Social Good, Social media, Social network, Viral Film, Web film, tagged ChartJackers, I've Got Nothing, YouTube song on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Thilde Vesterby
How do you raise money for a good cause when you’ve got nothing? You get help through social media.
I’ve Got Nothing is a pop song that’s been made by four teenagers and the help they got on YouTube. Everything is done entirely through crowsourced as a part of BBC’s ChartJackers.
The projest [...]
Posted in Innovation, Social Good, Social media, tagged Facebook, Good Causes, Social Good, Social media, Think Social, Twitter on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Thilde Vesterby
Think Social is a new non-profit initiative dedicated to advancing the use of social media in the public interest. The mission of the project is to connect people and ideas to advance the use of social media to address the most pressing challenges of society. Think Social is built on the [...]
Posted in 2.0 Collaboration, Innovation, Social media, Social network, tagged Focuss.info, Sharing, Sharing knowledge on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Richard Lalleman
Richard Lalleman is a guest writer on Mindjumpers blog. Richard holds an MSc in Information and Knowledge Management from the London Metropolitan University. Currently, Richard is working on projects and programmes to enhance innovation by developing organisational learning environments. A crucial part in this work is embedding social media tools at [...]
Posted in Good Cause, Innovation, Social Good, Tech, tagged African refugees, Aid, CroudSourcing, CrowsFlower, Give work, Help, Iphone app, Samasource, Social Good on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Thilde Vesterby
Finally here is an iPhone app that doesn’t drown in the thousands of fun but more or less useless apps on the market.
Yesterday, a new and very different iPhone app became available in the App Store: the Give Work iPhone app. The app is a corporation between the crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower and [...]
Posted in Innovation, Social media, Social network, tagged Decision making tool, Hunch, hunch.com, New social network, Social network on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen
A new social media has arrived; Hunch - the social network that helps you make decisions.
In basic it’s building a sort of AI, through you telling it what you and other people like and don’t like
“Hunch is a decision-making tool, built by its users. In ten questions or fewer, Hunch [...]
Posted in Branded Content, Branding, Innovation, Social media, Social network, Tech, tagged 'brandjacking', Brand Reputation Mangement, Brands In Public, Large brands, Seth Godin on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Thilde Vesterby
Seth Godin’s company Squidoo recently launched a new reputation management tool called Brand In Public. The service provides an online dashboard that pulls together the latest news and conversation about a brand from sources such as Google Blogsearch, Google News, Yahoo! News, Twitter, BackType, Google Search Trends and Quantcast.
When (or rather [...]
Posted in Branding, Innovation, Social media, Social network, Tech, tagged Facebook Widget, Nike, Nike + ipod, Nike + ipod sport kid, Nike Plus, Nike widget for Facebook, nikerunning.com on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen
Running has become popular like never before. Everybody is doing it and one of the greatest sports brands, Nike, has found a great way of exploiting the trend and branding themselves through social media.
Nike knows that if we set up goals for ourselves and commit to them in public there [...]
Posted in Innovation, Social Good, Tech, tagged Blackie, Energy, Google, Google Blackie, Saving energy on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Thilde Vesterby
Blackle is a search engine powered by Google – in black instead of the usual white. It’s not new, but I thought it deserves a mention as it is a pretty cool idea. The search engine is inspired by a blog written by Mark Ontkush back in 2007 that claimed that a [...]
Posted in Innovation, Social Good, Social media, Social network, tagged Facebook, LIVSTRONG, Mashable, Mashable.com, Oxfam America, Social Good Charity, Social Good Conference, Summer of Social good, summerofsocialgood.com, The Humane Society, Twitter, WWF, YoutTube on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Tehneyat Waseem
Mashable came up with the idea of that this summer should focus on the Social Good Charity Drive, launched on June 1st based on seeing the success of previous campaigns such as Tweetsgiving, Twestival and the like. The campaign is the first large scale online charitable campaign by Mashable using the [...]
Posted in Innovation, Social media, Statistics, Viral Film, Web film, tagged Erik Qualman, Social Media Revolution, Socialnomics on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen
Socialnomics is a book and a blog both written by Erik Qualman, and they are both about how social media are transforming our lives. Erik is also the Global Vice President of Online Marketing for EF Education, headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Besides a very interesting blog and what seems to be [...]
