Crowdsourcing, creativity and feeling good Who participates in crowdsourcing activities? What can you expect when you launch a crowdsourcing based competition? These are questions which normally lead to keywords such as everyone can participate, social thinking, better ideas, more ideas, innovative ideas. But is this really the case? And does this apply always and in…
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How you can help to promote social entrepreneur ideas
On 22nd June, took place the Impact journalism day, a day where 20 journals from 20 countries dedicated a supplement to social impact topics. That’s what they did: Building a network of like-minded editors Impact Journalism Day works through sharing. Each newspaper in the project found the most inspiring change-makers and creative innovations in their…
Socializing Social entrepreneurship – 1 + 1 makes 3
Socializing Social enterpreneurs – it sounds somehow strange, but this is what could lead to much more success in the future and accelerate social change in the world. We are just at the beginning. Having a look at ongoing social entrepreneur competitions, platforms and organizations that are involved in supporting social activities it is mostly…
Perceptional change – the viral effect of doing good
Maybe you have heard about the Dove experiment. What you can see in the video about this experiment is the following: there is a painter drawing women according to how they describe themselves. He cannot see them during the experiment. Afterwards a second portrait is done – this time there is another women describing the…
Ideas needed – health from a different perspective
When I came across this article I asked myself there must be a lot of ideas in the world how to help patients and private caregivers, relatives and friends who are caring about patients day by day at home and experience these issues described in the cited article below. Some of the issues raised are…
Running a Marathon or running social media – what about the ROI?
Today, social media usage for interacting with your target groups is one of the basics you should take into consideration when it comes to communication and marketing issues of your business. Whether it is thinking about Facebook/Orkut, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Stumbleupon, Vime or many other local and global Social Media channels which might be relevant…
Opening the box – before solving a problem we need to understand
I assume that you do have an idea on how to open the box, don’t you? But have you asked also why? Why you should open it? According to many publications and articles it seems that innovation and being creative aims mainly to find solutions. We need to find solutions for social needs, for growing…
What, if Social fictions are a way to change the world?
Science fiction and status today Just some years ago in science fictions we had seen strange houses, incredible rapid vehicles, unbelievable transitions of energy and power, unlimited communication opportunities, bridging incredible distances in a few seconds. Scientist have discovered so many things and made them available where we just dreamed of in past science fictions….
Dare to imagine – a video for social entrepreneurs and all who want to change the world
image is taken from video, cited below Dare to imagine how the world could look in fifty, hundred years… Have you ever asked yourself – how people will live together? – how family life will be organized? – how schools will be structured? – how prevention and health issues will be solved? – which will…
Creativity or innovation – what you are looking for?
Have you ever met someone who is not creative? Probably all of us are creative. We all try to find excuses when we are too late, or want to leave earlier than planned. Sometimes with really cool and creative ideas. In urgent cases we find crazy solutions for repairing things. We all can design a…
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