To Inspire You To Donate: Groundswell Participant for China Earthquake
As Elliott said,this past week was crazy. I created the first slideshow for China Earthquake six days ago. The slideshow has received 2,380 views, 11 comments, 7 favorites, 54 downloads and 18 embeds.The China Earthquake group has 23 slideshows.
Last weekend, after I uploaded my first slideshow Please Help Earthquake Victims In China to slideshare.net, I read Jeremiah Owyang’s post “To Inspire You To Donate: PhotoBlog from China” and thought it is a good idea to make a slideshow. Then I wrote e-mail to asked Jeremiah Owyang if I can use his photos. He said below:
Yes you may use the photos, but you must credit me with a link back to my original post.
The slideshow is here, its description is below:
This is slideshow version of Jeremiah Owyang’s post ” To Inspire You To Donate: PhotoBlog from China” (http://tinyurl.com/59p7wq). He said: “You know what to do, consider not going out to that nice dinner, and donate that money to the Red Cross, it would mean a lot to me if you donated, if you don’t have money to spare, blog it, tweet it, Facebook it, spread the word, that means just as much.
I’m Chinese, and have been to China a few times, here’s some of my favorite pictures compiled over a few trips, I hope they inspire…”
In fact, I add some twitter screenshots to expand the whole story. Some people like this story, they believe it is a case of social web tools such like twitter.
I have been collecting links and posts about Twitter for a while now, trying to undertsand the micro-blogging platform and it’s applications.
Something that I thought worth posting about was the use of Twitter by Jermiah Owyang to inspire people to donate to the Red Cross to help the victims in the recent Earthquake in China
He created a photo blog post here and discussed it on his twitter feed. (Note having 7,542 followers would definately help!)
Jeremiah’s post about it here, and Oliver Ding (Blog, Twitter) has created this slideshare showing how the images and twitter inspired others to help the people of China!
Rachel Beer also wrote a post Social networks take word of mouth to a global level:
I’m still totally captivated by the enormous possibilities of social media to share ideas and information, and am inspired to post (yet again) on the subject of how people are using them to come together and do good – because I’ve been motivated to give in the last few days via Twitter.
Just look at what Jeremiah Owyang has started through his blog and through his Twitter feed, which Oliver Ding then turned into this presentation on Slideshare…
Through the content that Jeremiah and Oliver have generated, people have been driven to charity sites and give a donation, and/ or to pages like this one.
There are at least 30 people who have indicated they’ve given through Jeremiah’s updates on Twitter, and more – no doubt – who have given privately.
I’m sorry to say that I had previously received an approach from two charities - one via Facebook and the other by email - but hadn’t yet made a donation. However, Jeremiah’s Twitter message changed that.
Jeremiah Owyang also said it’s great to see how the web community comes together on his post Thank you, Global Citizens:
Dozens of you left comments, blogged, or tweeted that you donated, and I am thankful.
In the last week, I’ve been doing something I’ve never done before, using my platform to help non-profits to help China during this horrific disaster. I felt pictures (positive ones, to inspire, not make you feel guilty) would be more emotional than anything else.
…You are great, thank you all for being global citizens.
Yes, it is very interesting. We know There’s a New Conversation, every thing has been change. Innovation technologies release the power grassroots on web.
This week everybody is groundswell participant for China Earthquake.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Thanks again Oliver!