Browsing archives for 'Causes'

Campaign by the Internet, Govern by the Internet

Causes,Twitter,Web 22 January 2009 | 0 Comments

A shadow loomed but Gordon Brown backed down on the MP’s expenses row. This was in part achieved by the efforts of mysociety. They even had a helping tweet from Stephen Fry. By encouraging use of WriteToThem as shown by Ewan Spence and a Facebook group with over 8,500 members there was overwhelming support. In [...]

Starbucks Gingerbread Latte Gets REDder

Causes 8 November 2008 | 0 Comments

Starbucks has teamed up with Product (RED) for Christmas, sorry, the holiday season. I didn’t remember to obsess about the countdown to Gingerbread Latte’s coming back into the shop but that’s OK because others did. That’s assuming that a Gingersnap Latte in the US is the same as a Gingerbread Latte in the UK.

Shaving Private Ryan

Causes 11 August 2008 | 0 Comments

Ryan Carson is the next charity head shaver after Kevin Rose. He’s hoping to raise a staggering £20,000, using a mix of promotion on Twitter and at FOWA. Donations accepted via his JustGiving page. His chosen charity is AbilityNet: AbilityNet helps over 165,000 people a year who thought they couldn’t use a computer because of [...]