Tag Archives: tools

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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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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Twitter How To: Hashtags

May 25, 2009 – 8:58 am

M4ID is getting an increasing nr of queries from partners about Twitter use, so we’ll post a few microblogging ‘how to’s  over the next weeks, starting with hashtags:
What are Twitter hashtags? Hashtags are a way of sorting and structuring the information overload that is on Twitter: when affixed with a hash symbol “#”, information can [...]

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Online Manuals ToGo

May 19, 2009 – 1:29 pm

This ‘ToGoManuals’ concept (check out this link for full description PDF, video soon to follow) is a great example of how organizations can use social media internally to improve and facilitate work, as well as making use of the collaborative aspect of social media.. the ToGo concept has been developed by students at the University [...]

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New social media tools for emergency response

March 12, 2009 – 9:01 am

We spent yesterday together with the student group from Media Lab, University of Helsinki, with whom we are designing new social media prototypes for WHO’s Health Action in Crisies (HAC).   We’re now organized in 3 groups, each focusing on a different layer of emergency  communication. Group 1 is looking at enabling communication through ad-hoc [...]

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Adding commentary to YouTube videos

March 5, 2009 – 8:12 am

The annotations tool on YouTube is a really effective and easy way of adding interactive commentary to videos, it can also be used to add background information about the video, create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene), as well as linking to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from [...]

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New Facebook Social Widget

March 4, 2009 – 2:37 pm

Facebook has launched a Comments Box social messaging widget, which helps further integrate Facebook Connect into sites and blogs. Facebook Connect allows users to sign on to other sites and blogs using their Facebook account information. With the new Comments Box, Facebook users can comment on site content, post those comments to their profiles, and [...]

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