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Flickr, 144 hands and virtual-world-shouts

Daniel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:47:00 +0000

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!

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Hugh Jackman, Twitter and two $50K donations

Daniel — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:37:30 +0000

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.”

He got thousands of tweets (messages on Twitter) with suggestions for charities. On April 24th he wrote:

“Thank you for all of your passionate responses. I have chosen www.charitywater and www.operationofhope. Keep your generous spirit flowing!”

Hugh Jackman decided to split the $100.000. Both charity: water and Operation of Hope got $50.000 each. Brilliant! I think this act of generosity just made Hugh Jackman even better looking, sexier, a great father and husband and simply shows that he is a good guy standing on the right side of life. Thanks, Hugh! There is also a radio interview with him about his donation. Please visit Mashable to listen to it.

Reader of this blog may have seen some videos of charity: water. Today I added new videos of Operation of Hope on http://5050box.com, video on box #10 and box #11. Operation of Hope is a non-profit medical foundation that donates surgical procedures to children in developing countries born with facial deformities. More about Operation of Hope on Oprah.com.

Video on box #10 on 5050box from Operation of Hope about a boy named Beloved:

Video on box #11 on 5050box from Mari Mora, a real ANGEL for Operation of Hope:

If you know of other charity videos on YouTube that I can integrate into 5050box to raise awareness for their cause, please send me a message or twitter me @5050box (Twitter.com/5050box)!

Via Twitter I got to know about 5Multiplied, a charity that is going to drill the first well in Mozambique to provide people with clean and safe drinking water. In 11 days they are leaving for Mozambique. Send them some love via Twitter @5Multiplied (Twitter.com/5Multiplied). I embedded their video on box #9!

Video on box #9 on 5050box from 5Multiplied:

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YouTube NonProfit raises $10.000 for charity: water – in one day

Daniel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:20:57 +0000

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.

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charity: water, Twestival, iJustine and a lot of people that do care

Daniel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:47:47 +0000

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”.

“Charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. They give 100% of the money raised to direct project costs, funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need. Just $20 can give one person in a developing nation clean water for 20 years.”

iJustine helped organising the Twestival in LA. She has a blog, is on Twitter and has a YouTube-Channel, of course. And: She made a video telling her users (the world) that she cares and posted it on her blog. This is her video:

In her video she asked others to created videos for charity: water too. And they did she got more than 180 video responses. Videos like these:

Video by killert00thbrush.

Video by KnileExclusive.

Video by mandajayne017.

Video by nsstv.

Video by mathcristo.

I love it. These are videos about something important. Videos by people that do care — from all over the planet. This is what 5050box should be about. Thank you all!

I have have embedded some videos to 5050box.com. iJustine’s video is on 5050box #176, a few responses to that video can be found starting with #177. Check them out and consider donating to charity: water if you like a video! If you have a YouTube account just click on the YouTube logo and comment on their videos.

The organizers of the Twestivals wanted to raise at least $1.000.000 for charity: water. I hope they got $2.000.000. If you have not donated to charity: water already you can go to their site on charitywater.org or donate directly from 5050box.

If you want to submit a video for another charity just go to suggest and become a 5050box ANGEL. It is easy and feels good. ;)

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5050box Twitter

Daniel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:50:33 +0000

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…

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