Maarten van Leeuwen
Ok it’s time to introduce you to an idea that kept me awake a couple of weeks ago and that I couldn’t let go since. While writing a blogpost today I wasn’t able to focus on that topic. So I consider it something worth completing. I have been involved in community building, [...]
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Last Wednesday, I attended a seminar about crowdfunding. Looking for inspiration and to get a status update on what is happening these days in the field of crowdfunding. I have worked for Pifworld, a fundraising platform for cool projects that do good, and I believe in the power of the Crowd when in it comes [...]
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The great thing about social networks is the ‘social’ part in it. If you use social networks to learn and engage with others that like to learn and exchange knowledge nice things can happen. Two weeks ago me and my colleagues at Solidaridad received a message that a blog was interested in posting a story [...]
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It is not just Steve Jobs Day on 16 October. It’s also World Food Day. On this day we celebrate that in 1945 the United Nations founded the Food and Agriculture Organization. You have to agree that FAO is a useful organization but do we really listen to what they [...]
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Fairfood organized a Twitter debate. A review on how they organized themselves.
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Sometimes people add other people to a Facebook Group without asking if they wish to be part of a Group. Someone asked me this week how to leave a group on Facebook, so this is just a brief description on how to leave a group on Facebook. I feel that has become more easy since Facebook [...]
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I’ll be taking the lead in organizing a event in Amsterdam this year called Be Good Be Social. This event perfectly fits my desire to spread knowledge and expertise on digital / social media in the non profit sector. More information on the event will follow in the weeks to come. In the mean time [...]
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Pifworld, the online charity fundraising platform, created a short movie to show you how it all started a couple of years ago. Please have a look at this video. Oh and btw my name is somewhere at the end.
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… that contained material that was copied from television. YouTube just made very clear that I made a mistake for posting an item to YouTube that was copied from television. It was a copy of a crash in the Tour de France. They asked me a couple of questions in their CopyRight School and [...]
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Last Thursday I went back to the Pifworld office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Pifworld is an online charity platform based on crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. On Pifworld you can create a profile, find a project that you like and support that project with a small donation. A lot of small donations can make a huge [...]
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Mobilising my community to use online marketing & communication tools to benefit people, planet and prosperity.
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