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A beautiful different perspective on the afghan people

My girlfriend just sent me this link to a movie about the life of afghan people. I really like this movie because it shows us a completely different perspective of the life of the afghan people. In the mainstream media we always see the war perspective with attacks on UN, Taliban and drug cultivation. Sometimes, we might forget that there are also ordinary people living in Afghanistan. This movie gives us a little insight into that.

Afghanistan – touch down in flight from Augustin Pictures on Vimeo.

More information about Lukas Augustin:
> www.lukasaugustin.de
> Augustin Pictures on Facebook
> Lukas Augustin on Twitter

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Blog post about free social media tools

Last week I published an article in our company’s blog about a selection of “free social media tools” for managing and handling the daily social media activitites.
The article is in German but most links lead to an English website. If you are interested, go and check it out

http://about.virtual-identity.com/2011/08/09/kostenlose-social-media-tools

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Next11 videos from the conference

This year I was at the Next11 conference in Berlin again. Unfortunately, I missed the last one and therefore I was really excited to go this year. First, I was really disappointed that the usual crowd and “social media conference guys” such as Brian Solis and Jeff Jarvis weren’t there but in the end it was ok.

The topic was “data love”. Indeed a lot of the presentations were about the importance of the data but not what is actually already been doing with the data. I think it was 1 or 2 years too early for the “data love” since most online managers still don’t give a crap about their online tracking nor change communication activities based on data. Anyways, what I really enjoyed was the company presentations about how they use Social Media in den daily business. My favorites were Deutsche Bank and Vodafone. Great job! The ADC best-practices were really inspiring and entertaining. Thanks to the ACD for sending me the material!

The reason why I post an article two weeks after the conference is that the videos about the conference are available now.

Here is the Next11 Channel:

For those of you who might be bored watching the channel can check out the site
Videos.nextconf.eu

Here are some links you might enjoy: Jeremy Tai Abbett (Widgetlabs), Rex Sorgatz (Kinda Sorta Media)Andrew Zolty (Breakfast NY)the cool dudes togetherJan “funny guy” Lehnardt (Couchbase)Matt Stinchcomb (Etsy), Must watch!!!: Peter Vesterbacka (Rovio) and Jochen Adler (Deutsche Bank AG).

Two other articles (in German though) from colleagues you can find below:
Sonja
Smeidu

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123WIR.org – A Social Network for the Welthungerhilfe

This is one of my favorite projects in quiet a long time. The Welthungerhilfe hired us to create a new social network which connects digitally the world wide projects with its stakeholder. Supporter groups also find a place to plan fundraising activities and connect with each other. This is a new approch to transparency in fundraising.

Take a look at a sneak preview or the community

 

Here are there Social Media profile

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Google celebrates Charlie Chaplin’s birthday

Today is charlie Chaplin’s 122. birthday and Google clebrated it with a nice animated Google Doogle by the Google Doogle team (Kris Hom, Ryan Germick, Mike Dutton, Jennifer Hom and Sophia Foster-Domino)

Here is the Google Silent film homage:

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Once again I’ll kick off my blog

A few days ago started updating my blog and its plugins. I installed a new design and now everything will be different…well, probably not, but once again I’ll kick off my blog. It’s been over a year since my last posting that’s why I pulled myself together started writing this article. Unfortunately, this articles is already finished. See you soon…

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Impressions from my first 6 months in Freiburg

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Zweites Treffen Social Media Club Hamburg

Gestern fand das zweite Treffen des Social Media Club Hamburg (SMCHH) statt. Es war wieder eine rundum schöne Veranstaltung. Das Feedback zu der Location im 19. OG des Atlantik-Hauses war überwältigend und die Vorträge von Benedikt Köhler (ethority) und Stefan Zilch (myspace) waren ebenfalls sehr interessant. Ich hatte sehr tolle Gespräche mit verschiedenen Social Media Interessenten und Experten.

Hier die Essence des des Abends mit den ToDos für “Social Brands”

http://twitpic.com/29aa6 von @trendskater

Für alle, die nicht dabei sein konnten, hier sind Fotos:
Facebook
Flickr

Twitter-Stream

Das Video wird nächste Woche folgen.

Der nächste Evnts wird am 16.4.09 mit Miguel Helfrich von Tchibo stattfinden.

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Mancadamy Burger King schlägt wieder zu

Ich hatte bereits vor ein paar Tagen davon gelesen, aber jetzt erst die Zeit gehabt, mir das auch mal anzuschauen. Nach ca. 15 Minuten und drei Mal dem Trailer, muss ich sagen Burger King ist definitiv der Werbe-Champ. Die Whopper-Virgins waren ja schon der Hit und die Facebook-Kampagne hat mal eins draufgesetzt. Mit der Mancadamy schiessen sie auf jedem Fall den Vogel ab.

“Jeder kommt als Sissi und geht als Siegfried!”…”Wir kämpfen gegen die Verweiblichung und Metrosexualität”

Ich habe mich nun mal (natrülich nur aus Interesse!) bei der Mancadamy eingeschrieben und werde berichten…

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