A conversation with Tom Watson at the G20 Summit

Tom Watson was the first MP to start blogging and he is still going here. He’s carried a link on his blog to the ColaLife Campaign since the very early days and we follow each other on Twitter. So, in a way, I feel I know him pretty well but we’ve only met fleetingly twice and this is the only decent conversation we’ve ever had! Thanks Tom.

Tom is Minister for Transformational Government at the Cabinet Office which is a long way of saying that he leads on the efforts to rationalise the Government’s web presence. He is one of the handful of MPs who understand Web 2.0.

Twitter users go beyond the background – thanks

Thanks to everyone who has gone the trouble of uploading the ColaLife Twitter background to promote the ColaLife campaign and encourage people to join the Colalife Facebook group and invite their friends.

One or two users have gone the extra mile and donated their Twitter profile picture to the cause. Thanks to 40_thieves and houtlust.

Onwards and upwards!

Making use of unused space – can you help?

The ColaLife AidPod makes use of unused space in a Coca-Cola crate. Could you use the unused space on your Twitter page to promote ColaLife?

By changing the background image to your Twitter page, all the people visiting will see information about ColaLife. I wonder how many people we can get to do this for the cause? Please spread the word!

Here’s the image that will give you a ColaLife background on your Twitter page: Download twitterbackgroundcolalife.jpg (right-click and select ‘Save Link As…’)

To change your Twitter background proceed as follows:

  1. download the ColaLife background image (right-click and select ‘Save Link As…’)
  2. go your homepage on Twitter
  3. click the ‘Setting’ link (top right)
  4. select the ‘Design’ tab (far right)
  5. click ‘Change background image »
  6. click the ‘Browse’ button to and point to twitterbackgroundcolalife.jpg
  7. click ‘save changes’
  8. just wait a few moments for the file to upload and that’s it!

Thanks!

First Edition ColaLife Cards on eBay!

In this multi-media, web 2.0 world you can’t sit in one place (like your website) and expect everyone to come to you. People are everywhere so you have to be everywhere too if you are going to get noticed. That is why ColaLife has a presence here, on Facebook, on Flickr, on YouTube, on Vimeo, on Twitter, on other people’s blogs and many other places.

Well now we are on eBay too. This will introduce CocaLife to a new group of people and hopefully someone will buy the cards which will mean that we can buy some more and continue to promote the camapign to the (still important) offline world.

Go on! Bid! Click here go to the cards on eBay.

ColaLife Buzz Monitor now in place

ColaLife Aggregator in Pageflakes
We now have a place to go to monitor all the talk about the ColaLife. The ColaLife Aggregator has been built using Pageflakes and draws items from:

Please leave a comment if you have other sources. Thanks.