#i4c :: using the web to change our world

On 17 December (12:15 – 14:15) bring your sandwich and your laptop to @HubBrussels (37 Rue du Prince Royal) for a hands-on interactive training seminar on how to change the world in 140 characters or less.
Space is limited to 15 participants – there are currently a few spots left.  Please tell your colleagues in Brussels!
To [...]

At the Oxford Jam event for social entrepreneurs last week, I seized the opportunity to interview Amanda Jones, who handled the social media and online tech strategy for the #OxfordJam #socent event #4change. OxfordJam ran as a simultaneous fringe event to the #SWF10 gathering of big money and big names in the social enterprise ecosystem [...]

At the Oxford Jam event for social entrepreneurs last week, I seized the opportunity to interview Amanda Jones, who handled the social media and online tech strategy for the #OxfordJam #socent event #4change. OxfordJam ran as a simultaneous fringe event to the #SWF10 gathering of big money and big names in the social enterprise ecosystem [...]

The following is cross-posted from ChristinasWorld at the #4change blog:
In the wake of South by Southwest in Austin, and in anticipation of some exciting social media and social change gatherings coming up on the 2010 events calendar, we thought it could be useful to explore How Social Media Can Enhance Events as the topic [...]

What Internet4Change intends to achieve, first and foremost, is Social Change sector-wide collaboration… on developing an approach to Social Change sector collaboration!
Specifically, in late 2009, I am inviting readers to collaborate with me on developing a reinvented homepage concept for the social change sector, that would pull the broader online presence of a cyber-activist in [...]

From my desk in Brussels, Belgium on yet another September 11
8 years ago today, a global event occurred which rocked the world as we knew it.  I was in East Africa on that day, and had coincidentally just discovered – via my interviews with Ashoka the previous week – that there was a rapidly growing [...]

So I’ve just invested in Headway, a new easy to use WordPress Theme builder that seems easy enough for do-it-yourselfers like me to play with effectively.
I’d been looking seriously for a while at Thesis, but what sold me on Headway Themes was both the visual editor and the built in SEO tools, as well as a 30% [...]

Things are busy starting a start-up!
After much consultation with social enterprise folks where I live in Belgium, I’m starting a Belgian based non-profit association for the purpose of developing and launching initiatives that support social entrepreneurship – among them Internet4Change.  My aim in doing so is to be able to justify my own working life [...]

Facebook -> f2f contacts, friends & family (home)

weed out non f2f contacts
decide on exceptions & inform why
make list of tools/applications to explore
create i4c fanpage

christinaswwworld blog -> my facebook, other bloggers

finetune theme
make list of posts to write
write & schedule 5 entries
re-start participation at entrecard community

internet4change blog-> social change sector

develop theme
reviewing 10 delicious bookmarks
compile a list of [...]