Social networks and online communities offer great possibilities for organisations and companies to connect with new and existing users, customers, supporters, donors etc. For NGOs, charities or companies, who want to show their corporate social responsibility social media is a very attractive tool.
Social media has a global scope and each person you connect with has [...]
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Celebrate Thanksgiving right now on Twitter during TweetsGiving. Until Thursday, you can join TweetsGiving as part of a 48-hour worldwide campaign and share whatever you are grateful for.
The purpose is similar to Twestival: to use social media to raise money for a good cause. But in TweetsGiving, the idea is to think about what you [...]
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Written by Thilde Vesterby
If you have been reading Mindjumpers’ blog on a regular basis you know that we strongly believe that social media can be used to do social good in the world. The latest example on doing something good online comes from Facebook which has now launched a social media peace project.
According to an [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Social Good, Social media on Sep 25th, 2009
Written by Thilde Vesterby
The most influential people of social media are probably the bloggers. They share news, videos, opinions, trends and have lots of devoted readers. A blog can reach a lot of people, but image what 14,000 thousands blogs can do. With Blog Action Day, Change.org found a genius way to use the [...]
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Written by Thilde Vesterby
At Mindjumpers we really love when companies use social media to raise awareness or money for a good cause. That is why we’d like to tell you about the one-day event that Weight Watchers are hosting today to fight world hunger.
The event Loose-A-Palooza is a one-day online social networking to help [...]
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Written by Thilde Vesterby
Remember Drew? He’s they guy who, when he was diagnosed with cancer, decided to let the whole world blame anything bad on it on Twitter using the hashtag #BlameDrewsCancer. Even Lance Armstrong blamed his shoulder injury on Drew’s cancer. We wrote about the brilliant social media campaign here and here.
Well, today on [...]
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Written by Tehneyat Waseem
I came across this absolutely amazing goose-bumping organization, charity: water.
If you haven’t heard about it, it’s about providing clean water by building water wells to places in Africa. The first water wells were built in Ugandan refugee camps. The strategy for charity: water has been simple. It’s about asking people to [...]
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Written by Jonas Klit Nielsen
In the end of July we wrote about how Drew Olanoff since he was diagnosed with cancer in May 2009, has been blaming everything on his cancer – like losing his keys or misplacing his wallet. He decided to use the possibilities social media give and created a campaign that [...]
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