Social Media 4 Good

Exploring the use of Social Media for NGOs, non-profit organizations and to support humanitarian relief

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Update: Problem solved. See comments if you have similar issues and want to know how I fixed them. If you are one of the 47 per cent of my visitors that use Firefox then you will see that the text runs over the “Facebook Share”-button on the right. I’m aware of this problem but don’t know how to solve it. I want the Facebook button to appear underneath the Twittley button (or the other way round), but of course I[...]

October 15 is Blog Action Day – an annual event where a bunch of activists are trying to focus the attention of the entire world on one topic. Their method: Get as many bloggers as possible to write about this topic. No matter what the normal topic of the blog is, no matter whether it is a long or a very short post. Basically they are trying to flood the web with their chosen issue for a day, which would then[...]

As  I grabbed my passport this morning, 20 Euros fell out. For a second, I had this weird mental image of a customs official secretly giving money back to travelers as compensation for all his colleagues who expect their palms to be greased. It was a fun thought.

A newspaper from my hometown called me and asked whether they could do an an interview for a mini-series about people who have moved abroad. Afterwards I was thinking that there is another aspect we didn’t talk about: The feeling of not belonging.