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!

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.”

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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

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.

During the last two weekends I have built another (micro-)site:
The 5050box // hands project.

It is just a fun project. On this site I want to collect 5050 hands to create a huge mosaic. As soon as 5050 pictures of hands are uploaded a limited edition of the finished mosaic will be sold. 100% of the profit will be donated to support charities.

I came up with the idea a while ago and thought it might be nice to visualize hands working together creating something big. Hand in hand. Just like I have mentioned in the video intro on 5050box that “5050box is also in your hands” it is the same with this project. I need helping hands: Your hands!

Just take a picture of your hands and upload it to http://5050box.com/hands. Thank you!

Behind the site is a tiny CMS that enables me to sort out strange pictures and create the mosaic dynamically. It is easy to handle and can be done quickly. So you can watch the mosaic grow every day!

There is also a facebook group for the 5050box // hands project so you can invite your friends to upload their hands too. For more information please visit the hands project information page.

This is the 5050box ANGELvideo. If you want to embed it on your site it would make me happy. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QeT0TIaJXU

5050box recently joined Twitter. Many others have done that too and quite a few thought it would be nice to organise 202 Twestivals, festivals around the world, “bringing together Twitter community for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water”.

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Subscribing RSS-feeds is a nice and comfortable way to get the latest news of a web page. RSS is often used with blogs but not only blogs can handle RSS to inform users via a comfortable feedreader update. 5050box.com has RSS built in too.

You will find the link in the lower left corner of your browser. Click on it, subscribe and your feedreader will inform you about 5050box updates. This means you will never miss an update of bright and shiny 5050box videos. 5050box RSS-feed.

5050box is now on Twitter too.

If you want to leave me a short message just add “@5050box” to your own tweets — only if you use twitter yourself, of course. In case you do not have clue what Twitter is about just read about it on Wikipedia. We will see where this is going to. By the way: It is free…

Google and YouTube can help non-profit organisations. Google has a program called Google Grants which is part of Google for Non-profits

There is a nice ad/video that summarizes the benefits quite well. People from CASA introduce Google for Non-profits.

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