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

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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!

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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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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

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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.

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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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