Wonderwebby Microfinance request

 Not For Profit, Online Communities, social networks  12 Responses »
Jun 212009
 

Dear Readers, got a dollar or five? It’s for @Wonderwebby‘s Filipino Women’s Trust Bank (WonderWebby is Jasmin Tragas):

“If just 250 people donate $20 each this week then a community of up to 30 Filipino womenvcurrently living in poverty will immediately commence a two year journey, creating small businesses and meeting weekly to support one another and learn new skills – imagine that!!”
 

What you can do: 

  • Donate now
  • Pass the Chip-In link around http://wonderwebby.chipin.com
  • Tweet the link on #microloanmonday or #charitytuesday
  • Go to her blog and read more about the microloans project for Filipino women

The power of Chip-in in is YOU, dear reader, adding it to your Facebook, blog, Myspace, whatever page. However much you dollars you donate, your friends may add collectively more!  Thanks m’dears. :)

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Twitter: Measuring clickthrus Social Media Metrics

 Featured, howto, Twitter  19 Responses »
Mar 172009
 

How do you know who has clicked through on a link, how many times and the sum of click thrus on retweets? Let Auntie SilkCharm explain. In dot points: Sign up to Tweetburner Add Twurl button to your toolbar Monitor pages twurled on yr archive page e.g. http://tweetburner.com/users/SilkCharm/archive Click the barchart graphic for more information – retweets for example, Twitter apps used, time of clickthroughs. In pictures. Go to Tweetburner, sign up, you’ll end up with a URL like http://tweetburner.com/users/SilkCharm/archive Drag the Orange thingie to your toolbar. This means that whenever you are on a page you want to Tweet Continue Reading…

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Stephen Fry and Traditional Media

 Media, Online Communities, social media, social networks, Twitter  3 Responses »
Mar 112009
 

Stephen Fry showing why heritage media hate social media and why we hardly notice (hat tip: John Lacey): If people (lp: famous) want to announce their new this or their new that, they’re going “I’m not going to do an interview, I’m not going to sit in the Dorchester for seven days having one interviewer after another come to me, I’m just going to Tweet it, and point them to my website and forget the press“.And the press are already struggling enough – God knows they’ve already lost their grip on news to some extent. If they lose their grip Continue Reading…

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Mumbai: Breaking News…

 Event, Featured, Media, Online Communities, social media, social networks  14 Responses »
Nov 262008
 

… but not on Heritage Media.TweetGrid video (click HIGH DEFINITION on YouTube site if you want to read words clearly) First. The bombings in Mumbai are shocking. Loss of life, fear, a tragedy being played out live is not Entertainment. CNN seems to be covering the hotel damage more than the people lost but to be fair, it’s a visual medium and buildings burning show more than statistics in a broadcast medium. Twitterers are all over it. People are videoing in the streets, taking photos, reporting back to their social networks. CNN coverage is simply not up to scratch, nor Continue Reading…

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Australia: Corporate Social Media

 Corporate, CSR, Enterprise 2.0, Featured, Media, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks  6 Responses »
Jul 292008
 

That title Corporate Social Media looks funny doesn’t it? I mean, some people still think of ‘social‘ as ‘party‘. Like, Corey from Melbourne on MySpace. They don’t realise that ‘social‘ means ‘society‘ – friends and family, yes, but also sports heroes and politicians and other leaders, and those we deem tabloid worthy – the Angelina Jolie’s and Britney’s of our social sphere. I wonder if we had changed from online communities to customer communities or consumer networks if it would’ve looked less jarring? Corporate Customer Media or similar? I think companies will move their Corporate Social Responsibility front and centre Continue Reading…

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