My Idea Du Jour: 10,000 Tweets
January 21st, 2009, 3 Comments »
Before Christmas, while working on the Save the Great Bear campaign, I had an idea for a Twitter-powered site that could, if successful, be an effective engine for spreading news and calls to action for social change causes. I talked with sundry people about it, including Rochelle and Geoff (they made Twemes), Joe, Boris, James and so forth. Everybody seemed to think it was a good idea. So I submitted it to this contest on Changemakers.net (please consider rating my idea on the site–no registration required). Even if nothing comes of that (and the odds are against me), I’m hoping to build it.
What is 10,000 Tweets? Here’s a hastily-made one-minute video that (hopefully) explains what it does:
My Proposal for Changemakers from Darren Barefoot on Vimeo.
Focusing Online Attention on Good Causes
That’s it in a nutshell. After the jump I’ll excerpt some text from my Changemakers.net submission, which explains and expands in text what the video summarizes. Just to clarify, there’s nothing at 10000Tweets.com–the thing hasn’t been built yet.