Can gamification change the world?

Some days ago I came across a social game trailer showing how a young girl from a developing country run across a huge number of difficulties to get a bucket of clean water and to carry it home as soon as possible for being able to get back at school. The ‘difficulty’ manager – of…

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…

Social entrepreneurship: How to get people motivated to support you

What I learned in the last years is that there are two different ‘levels’ of motivating people and team members, the ‘passive’ and the ‘active’ one. What does it mean? The ‘passive’ one is the basic level of motivation: It’ s the level where we often focus in our discussions, presentations and communication, whether it…

How to combine a coffee break and content marketing

I am sure you have heard it and read a lot about it: Content is king. Content marketing is the best way of reaching people, socialising and interacting. Probably it is also right and as Gartner says: It’s a challenge to keep the creativity fresh. It’s hard to know what will do well, what people…

Social entrepreneurs and digital presence – the sum of actions counts

From all those years of study, at school, university, professional courses – by the things I remember – what do I retain? Not much. But some moments, a random fact or snatch of memories comes back and make me think. Some phrases, some impressions, questions, reactions. Small pieces that one by one formed my knowledge,…

4 hours Polka in the car

The infographic on ‘social network love’ shown in the article mentioned below makes me laugh and makes me think at the same time. Having a drink in the bar I just look around, people with mobiles everywhere… and I ask myself what would they do for not loosing their social network profiles? Do You Suffer…

Why we should think about closing our high schools

I am one of those who liked going to school. At least most of all the 13 years I spent there. But with the distance of more than 25 years and looking back to what I really needed and what I missed for being prepared for life I am not so sure any more that…

It’s hard to get people to focus on plan B when it is working so well

Bad times? Probably, we are living very challenging years. There are a lot of problems in the financial sector, environmental problems, lack of security … but we should also benefit from it. Why? Just because the changes in our social circumstances, the financial limitations we live day by day, the networking trends in the real…