Thursday 8th July:
Mountain You
Green label art is Mountain Dew’s limited edition range that encourages individual expression. The latest in the series comes from Mountain Dew skateboarder Paul Rodriguez who has inspired 35 skate shops across the US to design a can for Mountain Dew. Now it’s the people’s turn to help decide which can hits stores nationwide. The 35 shops have been divided into seven different regions. The shop with the most votes in each region will advance to the final round of seven cans. Now people can vote which can from each region deserves to get one step closer to national distribution.
Monday 10th August:
Random acts of postal kindness
In this age of email, chat rooms and social networking, are we forgetting the pleasure of real post dropping through the letterbox? ‘Postcrossing’ helps you send and receive postcards to and from random people around the world.
Postcrossing was started by Paulo Magalhães from Portugal as a side project while he was a student. He has always loved to get post, the more random the better. He knew he wasn’t the only one so created an online platform to support this offline hobby. The goal: to connect people across the world through postcards, wherever they are, whoever they are and whatever they believe.
It’s working. Every day, people are cheered by the arrival of a postcard. As one postcrosser says, ‘it’s pure joy and excitement’. At the present count, there are 116,213 members from 198 countries. If you add up all the journeys the postcards have made, it comes to 14,944,417,720km.
Others are taking it further. One avid postcrosser celebrated her birthday by visiting all the people she’d had postcards from. Two others, Geoffrey from Australia and Kati from Finland, found one postcard led to another and eventually decided to tie the knot. (Thanks to Nathan Penlington, one of the readers at our latest poetry night, SoPo, for putting us on to this.)
Ref. http://www.postcrossing.com/
Tagged with: Collaboration, Online, Social networking
Wednesday 15th April:
How can you connect with an increasingly mobile, hi-tech savvy workforce?
Take some inspiration from CubeTree.com. Skilled workers are seeing that markets are fluid and global, and a new opportunity may be just an email away. So Cubtree provides social network tools and application clouds to accelerate virtual collaboration in ways a traditional office setting can’t – with exciting new tools coming in every day.
CubeTree allows colleagues to share ideas; get feedback from people they wouldn’t normally interact with; find thought leaders; and form ad hoc groups that cut across organisational boundaries. As well as empowering employees, CubeTree also includes policy controls that give HR and IT administrators the ability to ensure the product complies with corporate policies.
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Tuesday 3rd March:
How can you bring people together to re-imagine a better future?
Think like Marc and Sara Schiller, the founders of Meet at the Apartment, who realised that there was a need for a dedicated space in New York where creative and business executives could gather to re-imagine a business, re-invent a product or pitch potential clients. Advertising agencies, top consumer brands and television networks are among their enthusiastic clientele. (Thanks to Alex N.)
http://www.welcometomeet.com/
