August 4th, 2009 | general, video | 0 Comments

The customer is king.

We all know that this is right. We are all aware of that. Carrotmobbing is a way to use this knowledge for a change. On the Carrotmob website you will find a definition:

“Carrotmob is a method of activism that leverages consumer power to make the most socially-responsible business practices also the most profitable choices.”

The following video explains it.

Video on Vimeo.

And this is how it works in real life.

Video on Vimeo

I think it is a fantastic idea. In case you live in Bielefeld, Germany there is Carrotmob on 22. August. Must be fun — be a part of it!

More info on http://www.carrotmobbielefeld.de

July 30th, 2009 | general, video | 0 Comments

I did not integrate this video on 5050box because it is not in English. On the other hand no one speaks in this video and I really liked the clip so I put it on the blog.

The text says: “Deep in our heart we all know what is right.”

Video on YouTube

The video is a TV advertising for the German organisation Caritas.

June 26th, 2009 | general | 0 Comments

I know. You might think that this post has very little to do with 5050box. BUT: Although this might seem a bit pathetic I have to admit that this song never failed to inspire me. Listen carefully. MJ — R.I.P.

Man in the mirror

June 17th, 2009 | Twitter, facebook, hands project, network | 0 Comments

Flickr is a huge picture container of the www. The 5050box // hands project is about a huge mosaic made of many pictures. Wait a minute. Hmmm…

5050box is now on flickr too.

I got 144 hands on http://5050box.com/hands now. If you want to help me to spread the word for faster growing you can…

• send a good old EMAIL to your friends,
• use fantastic TWITTER to tell your followers,
• share awesome news with FACEBOOK,
• just DIGG it deeper into the web or
• save it as a DELICIOS bookmark.

Whatever you do to help — THANK YOU!

June 17th, 2009 | people that are right, video | 0 Comments

I have just seen a talk from Jeffrey Kalmikoff at the BIG Omaha Conference. Jeffrey is one of those forward-thinking creatives, entrepreneurs and innovators that gave a presentation in order to invite others to think BIG.

Jeffrey has a blog (http://www.callmejeffrey.com) and is “partner and chief creative officer for skinnyCorp – the Chicago-based, community business-centric house best known for being the parent company of Threadless.”

Apart from mentioning Rhianna, Jeffrey talked about things like transparency, accessiblity and being open. Things we all know to be important and true. Things we sometimes forget. I am glad he did not. Awesome.

May 28th, 2009 | hands project, site | 0 Comments

Just a very short post.

5050box was on siiimple — a minimalist design gallery for simple lover’s of design. Nice. And thanks! I will change the site a bit to make it clearer and more search engine-friendly. But it will stay simple… siiimple.

And:

I got 121 hands now on http://5050box.com/hands. The hands really come from all over the world already. Until now most of them are from Germany (of course) and Europe but there are also quite a few from the US, Australia, India, Venezuela, etc. I love that!

April 25th, 2009 | Twitter, site, video | 0 Comments

On April 14th the actor Hugh Jackman announced on Twitter:

“I will donate 100K to one individual’s favorite non profit organization.Of course,you must convince me why by using 140 characters or less.”

READ THE REST OF THE ENTRY >>>

April 2nd, 2009 | network, video | 0 Comments

An interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of “The starfish and the spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations“. He talks about decentralized organisations and their success. According to him Barack Obama’s election campaign, YouTube and Wikipedia are good examples for this kind of “leadership”. Sounds interesting!

via Gruenderszene

March 28th, 2009 | hands project | 0 Comments

A new mosaic! Now there are 49 hands (yes, I did not write about the 36 before…) and a new feature. Webcam upload. I think it makes it much easier to upload pictures of hands on http://5050box.com/hands.

To give it a try just go to ‘webcam upload’, fill out the fields if you want and press ‘take picture’ to activate the 3 seconds self-timer.

Credits for the webcam feature go to Kevin Musselman. His code to access the webcam with Flash saved me some time… Thanks.

March 28th, 2009 | Twitter, video | 0 Comments

I have just read on Twitter that YouTube raised $10.000 for charity:water. In ONE day!

Charity:water joined the YouTube NonProfit programme and was featured on the YouTube homepage to commemorate World Water Day. Non-Profits can add the newly introduced “Call to Action” feature to their videos, an overlay that leads to the charity’s donations page. This way charity: water raised $10.000 in just one day. Good!

In case you are interested in the programme I wrote about Google and YouTube for Non-profits last month. As it seems this programme became even more attractive and hopefully will be expanded to help charities in other countries too.

Here is the video from charity: water.

If you want to donate to charity: water just follow the link to their website or donate directly on 5050box.com. On the right sidebar is a donation button that will lead you directly to charity: water’s Paypal donation account.