Would you change your Facebook picture for ColaLife?
February 6, 2009 by Simon Berry · 6 Comments
A group of us (in a Google Group) are working on a campaign to get people to vote for the ColaLife idea if it gets through to the last 100 in Google’s Project 10 to the 100th trawl for the best ideas in the World. We will know on 17 March 2009.
One idea put forward by Kristin in the Colalife Google Group was to ask members of the Facebook Group to change their profile picture for a couple of weeks. Innovative! So Emma, another group member has had a go at a few designs - a selection of these are shown above. What do you think of them? Would this work? Would you change your Facebook picture to support ColaLife?
The ColaLife Google group is here and is open to everyone. If you’d like to help out please join.
Celebrating 8,000 ColaLife Members
January 24, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
At 17:11 GMT on 18/1/09 the ColaLife Facebook Group hit 8,000 members. This is a fantastic achievement and keeps the pressure on everyone for action. Thanks to everyone who’s joined and special thanks to those who have made very special efforts to recruit friends. I know James Pb, David Berman and others have been very busy in this regard recently. In the last week the group has grown by another 138 which is incredible but growth has slowed right down again now. Have you invited all your Facebook friends yet?
While this has been going on, people have been writing about the campaign all around the world. I have found, and tagged, 232 ColaLife articles to date (24/1/09).
We now have to gear up for voting for the ColaLife idea in Google’s Project 10 to the 100th (here it is on YouTube - I’ve posted our video as a video response). There were more than 100,000 ideas proposed and a shortlist of 100 will be announced on 27/1/09 and this is when voting will start.
From Communication & Learning to Collaboration - we can do it!
January 12, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
I feel that we are at a crucial stage of the ColaLife Campaign where our relationship with Coca-Cola needs to change slightly but in a significant way. As I am thinking this, Erik Charas makes the above post to the ColaLife Facebook Group (thanks Erik).
We have developed a really strong relationship with Coca-Cola which has enabled open communications and facilitated mutual learning and development of the ColaLife idea. However, to move forward we need, in my judgement, to move from good communications and good learning to good collaboration.
We are going to need to answer questions like:
- how the need for a product would be decided upon in a specific area
- who would then be supplying the product and in what format
- how would get the product to the MDC’s and how would it be put into crates
- MDC workers take product to retail outlets - so how would it the reach the people who need it?
- how would all of this be funded
And these are questions we need to consider together with Coca-Cola and local people. It’s no good us all coming up with different answers.
I am working on the transition to the collaboration phase now. Having come this far, we don’t want a repeat of Erik’s experience.
Answering some of the questions
August 19, 2008 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
Various questions came out of the first get-together last week of the ColaLife Campaign. I thought it would be useful to try to expand on these and seek help/suggestions from readers of this blog, so here goes. Read more
Please join the Coca Cola Campaign Facebook Group
May 18, 2008 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
The Coca Cola idea seems to have captured people’s imagination and it now has its own Facebook Group where numbers are growing fast.
Please join the group and invite your friends. If we can get the numbers up then perhaps we can get to talk to a decision maker at Coca Cola.
You’ll find the group here: Let’s talk to Coca Cola about saving the World’s children
Thanks.
Further information
What others are saying about ColaLife- ColaLife on Flickr
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