GOOD DEEDS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 If you've been reading my blog, you might notice that I never actually mention facebook specifically as one of blog topics. Reason? Well, I believe facebook is something we are more familiar with, compare to other social media tools like Twitter or Skype. Many bloggers would probably have blogged so many things about them, all the how tos, what they can do etc etc.


On the other hand, I want to blog about something that most of us might have overlooked. Nowadays, social medias have become most people's daily activities (well, at least for me, I know some of you too), some even hourly activities LOL. We interact with each other, with businesses, buy and sell things online, some people might even got rich because of it!


However, what we don't pay attention to much is how we can "GIVE" through our daily social media usages...


Many not for profit organisations have implemented social media as their strategic tool, and been very successful, of course some fail. So I wanted to blog about those cool campaigns I found that I like for this blog : )


1. Social Vibe

What Social Vibe can do is that, they donate money they can raise to whatever charity you want the money to go to. What you can do is participate is a "branded activities" such as facebook questionnaires, surveys etc etc.Through facebook apps, your friends can participate and earn points which turn to donations to your selected charity! 

2. Global Work Party

This one is very cool indeed, some of the big not for profit organisations may probably have used it.

This Global Work Party deals with global warming,  They have approximately 4,400 people in around 173 countries who have registered to this project to help with climate change, whether it be using bicycles instead of cars, less AC, plant more trees etc etc to help reduce CO2 and everywhere there's a project, the map will mark the point where it happened

3. Twitchange

Twitchange is the "first-ever celebrity auction", remember following celebrities around using Twitter? This is actually done on eBay, pretty clever, celebrities can tweet about what they offer, whether it be, following the person who have the highest bid for a period of time, retweet his/her tweets. At the time all the money went to aHomeInHaiti.org. 


One of the example (Quoted from the source)

The Justin Bieber Mega Package, described thusly, “Justin Bieber will follow you on Twitter for a minimum of 90 days, will retweet one of your tweets and will send out a tweet including your @twitterhandle,” is already up to $2,325.00 and 62 bids.

Pretty cool right? 

See? Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, eBay, all of these are actually tools that we use in our daily lives, see what we can do to "GIVE" to others? 

Well then, hope you like these campaigns. If you want to see more information, check out my sources.

Sources:

http://mashable.com/2010/09/22/support-cause-social-network/

http://www.350.org/en/map

http://mashable.com/2010/09/15/celebrity-twitter-charity/

http://mashable.com/2010/09/30/creative-social-good-campaigns/

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WHEN WE LOVE TO BE SOCIAL BUT IT CAN ALSO MAKE US UNSOCIAL.

From my last post, it was about the popularity with iPhone, and how we love to stay connected. So, I found this video, it's actually a Thai ad. Pretty interesting and touchy from my point of view.


One of my friend actually uploaded this video before, but I'd like to write more about this so I think I might as well do one blog about the topic of how when we become so social, it can make us unsocial sometimes.









What do you think about the video? By the way, in the end the ad said something like "Reasonable usage should be enough"


I was like "TOUCHE"


So I've done some further research on "how social media can make us unsocial sometimes" and I found a very interesting article.


Social media is local and global at the same time, it gave us possibilities and opportunities to get out there and be social. In many ways, how we use social media, how we stay connected, it obviously make us more socially active. For example, someone who most of the time love to hide themselves comfortably behind their computer screens, live with cellphones and internet, social media allow them to stay connected to the outside world.


Social media and the internet give us the opportunity to break barriers, allow us to interact and share ideas. Thus, I think interactions and sharing points of views are major advantage of why they exist. People share more information than they do before they exist, and faster too. Expressions become easier, for example, facebook status allow us to understand more about people we connect with or how we don't need to be afraid of those awkward moments if we want to say hi to a friend we haven't talk with for a while. In many cases, we get to know more people, we expand our circle of people we know.


On the other hand, because it is easier for us to connect, share ideas, interact etc etc. The downside of it is that, conflicts and obsession are unavoidable. So...Where's the point of too much? When there's issues about privacy, parents concerned on their child browsing through lots of inappropriate stuffs on the internet.


The article also found that, some people consider that people share more information than they interact, for example, posting a clip on someone's wall is consider information sharing not interaction. Or in the end, it can seem that when you know someone, the person they are online are totally different when you meet face-to-face.


Anyhow, in the end it's depends on what people think. For me, I would say, I love how they existed. And I know when to use and when to not. I've seen some people obsessions over facebook games, applications. As long as we know how to make the best of it. I think it's more than useful, it keeps us connected and that's important.








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Source: http://outerorbit.blogspot.com/2010/10/does-social-media-make-you-unsocial.html

WE LOVE TO STAY CONNECTED.

Nowadays, walking around anywhere, you will see people txting, calling each other, or facebooking, tweeting etc etc etc, using their mobile phones. Some of the terms that we might be familiar with 

"I'll *txt* you tonight", "what's your BB pin?", "hey! have you download that new app?". 

See how we love to stay connected much? How we see the importance of mobile phone these days. It keeps us connect to each other, allow us to be updated with the world around us.

iPhone is one of my favourite smartphones. So, I've found some interesting stats on the popularity of iPhone, US stats though, but it still shows us how popular it is. So I think I should share these with you guys : )

What do you think?

When I saw this I was like "wow...."

Next blog is one of the blog I look forward to write about it.

Hope you also find this interesting. By the way, there's also a Bigger Version here.

Source: Mashable