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Time to Meet Supporter Expectations

August 7, 2009 – 7:18 am

Over the past weeks, we’ve been thinking a lot about the way in which online user expectations and information sourcing/handling habits have evolved and how this impacts on social change initiatives.  It’s clear that people supporting causes no longer want to be passive ‘consumers’ of publications or recipients of one-way messages, instead, they expect:
•    Participation, [...]

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Gordon on Global Good

August 3, 2009 – 11:00 am

One of the latest releases from TED, Gordon Brown on how technology will help unlock the global good.
http://www.ted.com/talks/gordon_brown.html

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More than 2 Million Iran Election Tweets Recorded

July 2, 2009 – 7:17 am

Along with the rest of the world, M4ID and partners have been following the Iran Twitter story with great interest.. the attention and traditional media coverage has really brought home the message that social media has revolutionized the way we communicate and come together around social change issues.
The Web Ecology Project has also now  published [...]

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Video views up by 53% in 2009

June 26, 2009 – 10:43 am

A few weeks back, Nielsen released their Three Screen Report, which measures the viewing habits of Americans in terms of TV, the Internet, and mobile phones.  The research showed that while TV viewing is still dominant, online video usage is up by 53% from last year, and the number of people watching video via mobiles [...]

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Social Good on Mashable

June 23, 2009 – 8:31 am

Our favourite social media site, Mashable, is this week profiling charitable initiatives that are maximising social media use .. their first post is about LIVESTRONG, the cancer Foundation founded by Lance Armstrong.
The organization has been using social media in a great manner, from a regularly updated blog, to MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter [...]

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Social Media is Changing History

June 17, 2009 – 1:05 pm

The action unfolding in Iran demonstrate how social media enables ordinary people to impact on real-world events.  This is perhaps the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by tools like Twitter, mobiles, the web … users throughout the world are not only listening but responding: they’re engaging with individual [...]

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M4ID recruiting new Manager

June 16, 2009 – 7:05 am

M4ID is seeking a highly-motivated, dynamic individual to manage and contribute to our growing portfolio of global development and health projects.  See our Services page for more on this position.

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Facebook now in Swahili

June 15, 2009 – 4:50 pm

Facebook has launched a Swahili language version, targeting more than 110m Swahili-speakers mainly living in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, parts of the Horn of Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and the Indian Ocean islands. Analysts say a Hausa version could be launched next in West Africa and Zulu for southern Africa. Facebook already exists [...]

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Mobile Innovation: XoutTB

June 11, 2009 – 11:46 am

Researchers at MIT have developed a mobile phone based incentive scheme for TB patients to keep taking their pills .. the system, called XoutTB is based around stamp-sized patches, much like litmus paper (see photo below), that change colour when exposed to the urine of people with traces of medicine in their systems. This change [...]

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Get Ready to Register: Usernames Coming to Facebook

June 10, 2009 – 8:08 am

Yesterday Facebook announced on their blog that it’ll soon allow users to register usernames and custom ULRs on it’s site.
On June 13th, people will be able to register Facebook.com/YourName, bringing Facebook in line with two of its biggest competitors, Twitter and MySpace, both of which offer vanity URLs for profiles. Currently, for someone to [...]

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