consumerACTIONism - Home - Everyone is Talking, but Who is Listening? Why Bra... - 0 views
Open Spirituality: Charities-from virtual tools to real world collaboration - 0 views
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Charities-from virtual tools to real world collaboration
MediaPost Publications Digital Partnerships Could Revive, Energize Local Media 03/02/2009 - 0 views
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Digital Partnerships Could Revive, Energize Local Media
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Local news, interests and connections between consumers and advertisers are at the heart of both the failing traditional media saddled with legacy costs and the nimble Web-based contenders. The value of all things local has been woefully underestimated. It has been devalued in print and television, which can't quite make the leap to digital, and botched on the Internet--where it seems impossible to capitalize on the hyperpersonal in bloggers and tweeters run amok. What could be more relevant than what is going on in consumers' own backyard? Institutional media (newspapers and TV stations) has failed to connect with local as it is being redefined by consumers who are obsessing over the interactive ME-dia they care about most: their needs, family and friends. "The future of local is intensely personal. It is about what is within 1,000 feet of where you stand. Local is centered on the individual," says Outside.in CEO Mark Josephson
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The shift of core ad dollars to digital could be even more pronounced if the major traditional media are not able to integrate new interactive products into their bundle. Holding on to advertiser and consumers isn't enough; everyone must be interactively engaged.
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Twitter as a Micropayment system - broadstuff - 0 views
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Here's the premise: Sign up, put some cash in your Twitpay account through another payment service like PayPal, and then send out a "tweet" to another Twitpay member, structured like "@josh twitpay $10 for beers." Twitpay takes a five-cent commission. Its founders are hoping that, eventually, it can be used for charity and disaster relief payments. It's a nifty idea, though not for everyone. You don't get cash out of it, for example--Twitpay reimburses you in the form of Amazon gift rewards instead
Creating Inclusive Communities >>> - 0 views
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Initiatives include: the ‘electronic village hall strategy’,ensuring that everyone has free access to ICT at a time and place convenient to them; the development of a pool of community e-champions;
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The social inclusion through ICT work is being taken forward in 2004-6 through the LSP’s e-neighbourhoods initiative,supported by t
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Login in to My PBwiki - 0 views
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this is a "wiki" - will post on my blog something about this - for those who may be new it's at http://www.openspirituality.blogspot.com Wiki's are good for collaborative knowledge structurturing into something that looks like a structure - you've heard of wikipedia right? - it is based on everyone having the ability to 'edit' information and collaboratively making sense of it! - you can choose who to let in - if you want.
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