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Goofing around with TrustCloud

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

While looking into trust marks and online reputation platforms, my latest fascination and potential inspiration for what’s next for Kabissa, I came across TrustCloud (http://www.trustcloud.com) which I can imagine having the potential to really make a difference for people who … Continue reading →

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Reconquering Twitter and shifting my Twitter following to @tobiaseigen

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Recently a wonderful new Kabissa volunteer, Ziyanda Xaso, has taken charge of our social media outreach. Ziyanda has given me an opportunity I have been waiting for to let go of the @kabissa Twitter account on a daily basis and … Continue reading →

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I’m awake. I’m awake!

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

I don’t watch broadcast TV much at all anymore, so am glad when friends share their favorite political ads with me via the interwebs. (oh, and yes – I am awake and will complete my ballot carefully) Here are two … Continue reading →

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Please reply – goofing around with SOCIAL WordPress Plugin

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Consider your shoulder tapped. For a new site I am working on for CISLAC Nigeria, I am experimenting with the social wordpress plugin by MailChimp which apparently pushes out posts to Facebook and Twitter and then aggregates replies back here on … Continue reading →

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Amazee shut down on 23 December: did anybody notice?

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

I just remembered that in October Amazee Labs announced that it would be shutting down the amazee.com social change platform on 23 December. I blogged about it back then and was quite appalled. I completely forgot to check on the 23rd, … Continue reading →

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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

There are some good lessons in this video for all of us. Listen carefully. (What I can’t get over is the irony that people take the time and effort to make media like this that criticizes us for sharing time-wasting … Continue reading →

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Social Media Explained

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

Perhaps it’s because “you get out of facebook what you put into facebook” and I haven’t been spending much time on facebook in recent months, my stream has been reduced to people I know sharing (“so funny! I’m stealing this … Continue reading →

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ICT peer learning as it actually happens (confessions of an eavesdropper)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

Today I had the remarkable experience of eavesdropping on ICT peer learning as it actually happens – from person to person. Usually I don’t eavesdrop and it’s not really something I should be blogging about, but in this case I … Continue reading →

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Strange sensation of freedom (Facebook is down) and new discovery (downrightnow.com crowdsources monitoring of web services)

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

I sat down at my desk this morning and felt a sudden sensation of freedom entering by body from my fingertips and toes, through my limbs.. and then I realized: it isn’t my own router that is down this time … Continue reading →

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Setting us back while going forward: Amazee closes shop, refers members to Facebook and Google for social change organizing

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Tobias Eigen

I received the above message from Amazee today. Amazee is (or will be until December 23) a platform built using Drupal where people can create groups to organize around social change projects and campaigns. The makers of the site (Amazee Labs in … Continue reading →

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