Twitter’s has just released a new iphone/IOS mobile video creation service, Vine, which has everyone tweeting their best six-second clips.

How could NGO’s and Charities make use of 6 seconds of video which you can attach to a tweet. Here are some ideas

1. New campaign awareness

2. Letting people know how they can help or volunteer

3. Getting supporters to tweet their support using a short video

4. Giving people short campaign updates via video

5. Those on fundraising challenges giving short video updates to the charity and to those who are supporting them along the way

6. Charity workers/supporters sending their M.P.’s or representatives calls to action about a particular issue or location of concern via video

7. Those who receive help from a charity using video to say thank you to those who have supported them

8. Sending short video content updates to media outlets that they can then use to publicise a campaign/protest/crisis or emergency as it’s happening

9 Letting people know about jobs/opportunities that a charity/NGO are trying to fill

10.  Your Idea !

You can download the Vine app here

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‘Fair Trade’ Language School www.glovico.org lets you learn a language from a ‘local’ online. Using a community enterprise model, Founder and MD of Glovico, Tobias Lorenz explains how Glovico works and what plans she has for the future.

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Government Cuts- who is most affected? Watch The Centre for Welfare Reform outline which sectors of society are most affected by Government cuts and read their report here. 

http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/categories/disability

Lee Hall was one of the speakers trying to save Newcastle libraries from closing as a result of Government cuts. The campaign organised by http://savenewcastlelibraries.org is urging Newcastle City Council and Central Government to ‘Think Again’ and not close these vital community buildings which are so greatly valued by their communities and their users from young to old. See what Lee has to say by watching the video below.

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Gerry Slater of the UK Charity The Himalayan Youth Foundation http://hyf-uk.org is looking for sponsors to support Nepalese children from rural and deprived communities through their education in Katmandu. The foundation currently provides a 100 bedded hostel which looks after the children’s living and educational costs, however currently the hostel is under capacity as more child sponsors are needed to fill the available spaces.

In the video below, Gerry explains how as well as supporting the children’s education, he is also raising funds for a new school bus to help transport the children to school.

If you think you can help or know someone who can, please share the link and get in touch with Gerry who gives his contact details at the end of the interview or via the foundations web site http://hyf-uk.org

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GWEN is The ‘Global Women’s Empowerment Network’ They are a non profit based in the USA whose mission is

‘To bring hope, inspiration and powerful tools that will empower women to live a life beyond abuse’

GWEN have developed a very useful free phone application that enables women (and other people) who are being attacked to text help to their selection of their five closest friends just by the push of a button. The video above talks about using the app for people you may meet through online dating but I think that its a useful and possibly life saving app to have on your phone when just going about your daily business. 

Check out www.gwennetwork.org for further information about how to download the app

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Following Hurricane Sandy hitting New York Needmapper.com is providing a way that people can send requests for help from others and volunteers can volunteer to help them. 

Check out www.needmapper.com

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Check out the campaign to raise funds to fight a Cancer by a small group of dedicated individuals. Join them and do something special for someone you don’t know. Only 18 days left to reach their target. 

Find out more here http://icancer.org.uk

The Big Issue in the North is going Digital!

The Big Issue in the North, a magazine sold by homeless and other people in the north of the UK to provide them with a means of income and to campaign for the prevention of homelessness is going digital.

If you are in Manchester, from Monday 29th October, you will be able to buy a digital copy of the latest magazine from a Big Issue seller either in the normal print form or in digital form to read later on your phone, PC or iPad. The digital issue will cost the same £2 as the print edition, with £1 going to support the seller.

By scanning a QR code on a ticket sold by the seller, the latest magazine will be downloaded to your phone, PC or hand held device for you to read at your leisure.

Check out the video

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Find out more about Children North East here www.children-ne.org.uk

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