Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Monday, April 19, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Digital Citizens “Social media for social good”
Things I wrote down from the Digital Citizens “Social media for social good” event in Sydney, 13 April, 2009.
Disclaimer – these are my rough notes, and there was wine.
“The average blog is read by six people,” “the future will be angry with us for demonetization,” and foursquare has some secondary uses which could be interesting i.e. urban planning and health scares– Kim McKay [@redshoes on twitter] (who heard these at South by Southwest this year).
Alan Jones [@bigyahu] (who mediated) made the point that “people are the media” which is in line with what I’ve been reading by Jim Macnamara [@jimmacnamara] who says we are living “in the media” in his book “The 21st Century Media (R)evolution.”
Karalee Evans [@Karalee_] from Headspace had some interesting things to say about:
• reaching the youth demographic who don’t read papers or watch TV. She talked about the need for a strategy around social media, and also about the importance of getting the whole organization on board from Board and CEO level to clinicians etc.
• They only have 300 followers on twitter, and are more interested in the quality engagement in this forum than numbers
• Facebook acts as a solid referral page to their website, which acts as their main call to action.
• “Social media is a long term investment”
Disclaimer – these are my rough notes, and there was wine.
“The average blog is read by six people,” “the future will be angry with us for demonetization,” and foursquare has some secondary uses which could be interesting i.e. urban planning and health scares– Kim McKay [@redshoes on twitter] (who heard these at South by Southwest this year).
Alan Jones [@bigyahu] (who mediated) made the point that “people are the media” which is in line with what I’ve been reading by Jim Macnamara [@jimmacnamara] who says we are living “in the media” in his book “The 21st Century Media (R)evolution.”
Karalee Evans [@Karalee_] from Headspace had some interesting things to say about:
• reaching the youth demographic who don’t read papers or watch TV. She talked about the need for a strategy around social media, and also about the importance of getting the whole organization on board from Board and CEO level to clinicians etc.
• They only have 300 followers on twitter, and are more interested in the quality engagement in this forum than numbers
• Facebook acts as a solid referral page to their website, which acts as their main call to action.
• “Social media is a long term investment”
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Sharing Stories: Australian Aboriginal kids are talking to you
"this is my uncle and my little cousin"
11 year old Reharnee at Wugularr School Blog part of the digital online project Sharing Stories
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Reality Check: the cost of a coffee
I paid more for this:
Coffee - AU$3
Than these men earn in a day
Rice farmers earn around
AU$2.60 /day in Noakhali, Bangladesh
I wanna' be a non-believer
"you'll find thousands of case studies of small (and large) innovative businesses that are shaking things up and making things happen. And not enough of these stories are about non-profits. If your non-profit isn't acting with as much energy and guts as it takes to get funded in Silicon Valley or featured on Digg, then you're failing in your duty to make change."
Seth Godin @seth's blog What have you done for me lately?
"There are many examples of UN inaction, corruption and impropriety, so there is no denying that improvement is essential. But for all the work that is yet to be done, I know we are improving the lives of men, women and children. I know because I’ve seen it."
casey @ casey in bangladesh
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