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PopTech accepting 2013 Social Innovation Fellows nominations

medeaeva — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:02:18 +0100

The PopTech Social Innovation Fellows program is designed to to equip world-changing social innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social network that can help them scale their impacts to new heights. Check out the program and the call for nominations!

sunfoundation: 2012 Warby Parker Annual Report

medeaeva — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:42:53 +0100

sunfoundation:

2012 Warby Parker Annual Report

State of Infographics: The Rise and Impact of This Great Marketing Tool

medeaeva — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:12:13 +0100

Image source: www.topmarketingschools.net

nonprofitorgs: 85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools...

medeaeva — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:07:13 +0100

nonprofitorgs:

85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

RSS to HTML apps

medeaeva — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:07:47 +0100

RSS to HTML apps

pewinternet: pewresearch: The growth of social media and the...

medeaeva — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:06:48 +0100

pewinternet:

pewresearch:

The growth of social media and the rapid adoption of internet-enabled mobile devices have changed the way Americans engage in the political process. Here’s a summary of the latest data from national surveys taken during the 2012 campaign.

Politics goes digital.

Hogyan írnak géppel a kínaiak és a japánok?

medeaeva — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:51:38 +0100

ugysenezem:

Mindig fúrta az oldalamat a kíváncsiság, hogy a több ezer jelet használó, és még több jellel rendelkező kínaiak és japánok hogyan voltak képesek gépesíteni az írásukat. Azt tudtam, hogy a kalligráfiának ott nagyon fontos szerepe volt, a legnagyobb művészeknek tartották őket és a mai napig vagyonokat ér egy-egy híres kalligráfus régi munkája, ami mindössze három szó. Mindazonáltal elképzelhetetlen tűnt számomra, hogy ne legyen valami gépesítés, Japán és Kína elvégre mégis gazdasági szuperhatalom és kizárt, hogy ne lett volna a gépírás valahogyan megoldva a 20. században.

Gondolhatná az ember, hogy nyilván csináltak egy speciális betűírást, mert hát háromezer jelet nem lehet kezelni. Persze ez a kelet mesés varázsa, hogy nem. Igaz a japánoknak van egy a kínai jelek helyett szótagokat használó úgynevezett hiragana és katagana nevű írásmódjuk, de előbbivel csak a toldalékokat, utóbbiakkal meg inkább csak az idegen szavakat írják, a szótő írására a kínaiból japánosított kandzsi jeleket használják, ami sokszor szótagot, sokszor egész szót jelölnek.

A koreaiak, ez engem is meglepett, már a 15. században lecserélték a kínai alapú jeleket betűírásra. Kicsit fura és színes a billentyűzetük, de alapvetően a karakterek száma nem sokkal több, mint Európában. A hangokat (gyököket) szótagegységekbe rendezik, ezért tűnik olyan kínaiasnak az írásmódjuk. De a mátrixos elrendezésen kívül másat nem kell megoldaniuk, mert 24 hangot jelölő írásrendszerük van (a hangul).

Hát akkor mi helyettesítette az iparosodó Japánban, Kínában a tolsztoji értelembe vett leíró csinovnyikokat? Gépek természetesen, úgynevezett kandzsi írógépek.

Kandzsi írógép 1942-ből

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Worth watching before it’s gone: A collection of every Apple television ad ever - The Next Web

medeaeva — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:06:45 +0100

Worth watching before it’s gone: A collection of every Apple television ad ever - The Next Web

StartSomeGood: The Blog: Crowdfund Some Good! Crowdfunding for Social Impact.

medeaeva — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:23:37 +0100

StartSomeGood: The Blog: Crowdfund Some Good! Crowdfunding for Social Impact.:

startsomegood:

With 100 projects (and counting) now successfully funded on StartSomeGood, it’s pretty safe to say we know a thing or two about crowdfunding. We are passionate about helping social entrepreneurs and changemakers succeed and because of this we’re excited to share what we’ve learned over the…

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storyboard: Meet the Mind Behind Barack Obama’s Online...

medeaeva — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:17:55 +0100

storyboard:

Meet the Mind Behind Barack Obama’s Online Persona

You’ve most definitely seen it by now. Michelle Obama, wearing a red-and-white checkered dress, stands with her back to the camera. Her arms are wrapped around her husband, the hints of a smile lingering on the edges of his lips. “Four more years,” reads the text, which was posted on the Obama campaign’s social media accounts around 11:15pm on election night‚ just as it became clear the president had won a second term.

The photo, taken by campaign photographer Scout Tufankjian just a few days into the job, pretty much won the internet: 816,000 retweets, the most likes ever on Facebook; thousands of reblogs on Tumblr. And yet it wasn’t chosen by the president’s press secretary, or even a senior-level operative, but by 31-year-old Laura Olin, a social media strategist who’d been up since 4am. For the first time since the campaign ended, she talked to Tumblr, in partnership with The Daily Beast, about what it’s like being the voice of the President — where millions of people, and a ravenous press, await your every grammatical error.

So how does it actually work, being the voice of the President? Who makes the decisions about what to post?

All of our decisions were made in-house — in Chicago, mostly — so we weren’t getting direct directives from the White House or anything. But we tried as much as possible to have voices for each account, so depending on the message — because we had all these channels — we had an appropriate place to put it. Obviously some stuff was sufficiently huge so that it went everywhere, but as much as possible we tried to tailor the message for the channel and the audience.

It must be daunting.

It was kind of terrifying, actually. My team ran the Barack Obama Twitter handle, which I think was probably most susceptible to really embarrassing and silly mistakes. We didn’t ever really have one, which I still can’t believe we pulled off.

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Actress Marlee Matlin Teaches You Sign Language With New App

medeaeva — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:13:35 +0100

Actress Marlee Matlin Teaches You Sign Language With New App:

Award-winning deaf actress Marlee Matlin, has partnered with MEDL Mobile for the release of Marlee Signs, an app that teaches users the fundamentals of American Sign language.

Similar app (Hallatlan) is also available in Hungary.

Engaging Board Members in Fundraising

medeaeva — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:17:00 +0100

Engaging Board Members in Fundraising:

Raising money is a major challenge for many charities’ boards of directors, according to BoardSource (2010). Fundraising ranks #1 among board areas needing improvement, and has done so for many years in BoardSource’s regular Nonprofit Governance Index.

(Summary here)

How ‘Slacktive’ Is Generation Y?

medeaeva — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:56:35 +0100

How ‘Slacktive’ Is Generation Y?:

“Slacktivists might be more effective than they’re given credit for. The report, called the Good Guide, surveyed 900 Americans between the ages of 14 and 34 — “Generation Y” — about their social awareness and activeness.”

(Full report here)

"The Obama campaign seems to have a good grasp of the kind of content that works well on Tumblr and..."

medeaeva — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:33:18 +0100

““The Obama campaign seems to have a good grasp of the kind of content that works well on Tumblr and leverages this for very high engagement rates,” the report stated. That content, according to the report, includes animated GIFs photos, videos and quotes.”

- Tumblr’s Analytics Partner Says Obama Followers Far More Engaged Than Romney’s - Forbes (via apsies)

buzzfeed: Can what you watch on TV tell you something about how...

medeaeva — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:23:55 +0100

buzzfeed:

Can what you watch on TV tell you something about how you vote? Yeeup.

thenextweb: (via Google Launches Digital Thermometer For...

medeaeva — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:12:11 +0200

thenextweb:

(via Google Launches Digital Thermometer For Nonprofits On YouTube)

futurist-foresight: Digital: An interesting look at digital...

medeaeva — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:05:00 +0200

futurist-foresight:

Digital: An interesting look at digital audience participation.

webmsmith:

Timing is everything. Here is a great one on how timing (and time-appropriate messaging) effects the size of the audience that will hear your message.

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medeaeva — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:24:04 +0200

"On October 1 1982, Joel’s sixth studio album, 52nd Street, was the first commercially released..."

medeaeva — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:29:53 +0200

“On October 1 1982, Joel’s sixth studio album, 52nd Street, was the first commercially released CD album…which means CDs are 30-years-old today. It’s worth noting here that 52nd Street wasn’t a new album – it was launched initially in 1978, but it was selected for relaunch on the new digital audio disc, rolling out alongside the first CD player – the Sony CDP-101 – in Japan.”

- The CD is 30 Years Old Today (via thenextweb)

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PopTech accepting 2013 Social Innovation Fellows nominations

Top 5 Non-Profit YouTube Videos of 2012

sunfoundation: 2012 Warby Parker Annual Report

State of Infographics: The Rise and Impact of This Great Marketing Tool

nonprofitorgs: 85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools...

85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

RSS to HTML apps

pewinternet: pewresearch: The growth of social media and the...

Hogyan írnak géppel a kínaiak és a japánok?

Worth watching before it’s gone: A collection of every Apple television ad ever - The Next Web

StartSomeGood: The Blog: Crowdfund Some Good! Crowdfunding for Social Impact.

storyboard: Meet the Mind Behind Barack Obama’s Online...

Meet the Mind Behind Barack Obama’s Online Persona

So how does it actually work, being the voice of the President? Who makes the decisions about what to post?

It must be daunting.

Actress Marlee Matlin Teaches You Sign Language With New App

Engaging Board Members in Fundraising

How ‘Slacktive’ Is Generation Y?

"The Obama campaign seems to have a good grasp of the kind of content that works well on Tumblr and..."

buzzfeed: Can what you watch on TV tell you something about how...

thenextweb: (via Google Launches Digital Thermometer For...

futurist-foresight: Digital: An interesting look at digital...

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"On October 1 1982, Joel’s sixth studio album, 52nd Street, was the first commercially released..."