Comments on: Pilot Project Summary: Creating jobs using mobile phones in an African township http://www.mobenzi.com/index.php/homepage/pilot-project-summary-creating-jobs-using-mobile-phones-in-an-african-township/ Mobenzi is a software service that empowers people to earn money by completing simple tasks on their mobile phones. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:24:56 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Openworld http://www.mobenzi.com/index.php/homepage/pilot-project-summary-creating-jobs-using-mobile-phones-in-an-african-township/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Openworld Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:35:07 +0000 http://www.mobenzi.com/?p=634#comment-226 Congratulations on your initiative! It has a lot of promise and is very convergent with what we have been working on at Openworld.com. In support of the project, Openworld may be able to offer microstipends in the $US20-30 range for Mobenzi workers who create and upload short Youtube clips (ideally created with cameraphones) on their Mobenzi experience. Let us know if you may be interested in such a project, or others relating to the "Seeds of Change" initiative described http://j.mp/q9IZn . In addition, we would be interested in possibly working with Mobenzi on a small pilot in one of the two following areas: 1. Engaging Mobenzi teleworkers to tag Tweets that include a request to act Although many Tweets are simply sharing opinions or personal updates, others include calls to action. Examples of actions requests include asking followers to donate to a good cause, to fill in an online survey, or to stop purchasing from companies that causing harm to local or global communities. A"RTa" or #R2A hashtag might be added to the Tweet in such cases. Such tags could help firms and nonprofit organizations quickly scan the feed from influential Twitterers, and spot emerging trends that can lead to actions. Another very useful service might be to help Twitter users organize their archived Tweets (see BackupmyTweets.com) into visual "mindmaps" (see Mindmeister.com). A client such as Openworld, in this case, could send Mobenzi a list of the preferred #hashtags that relate to the main topics in their web-based Mindmaps. Then, the Mobenzi teams would go through the archived Tweets and add these preferred hashtags to the (untagged) Tweets. Once the archived Tweets were updated with these hashtags, the archive could be exported into the web-based mindmap. The tagged archive would then auto-fill the Tweets into the corresponding topics in the Mindmap. This Tweet->Mindmap service would let organizations like ours quickly show potential followers the range and depth of topics we cover. Look forward to any thoughts on followup! Best, Mark Frazier Openworld.com @openworld @buildership (Twitter) Congratulations on your initiative!

It has a lot of promise and is very convergent with what we have been working on at Openworld.com.

In support of the project, Openworld may be able to offer microstipends in the $US20-30 range for Mobenzi workers who create and upload short Youtube clips (ideally created with cameraphones) on their Mobenzi experience.

Let us know if you may be interested in such a project, or others relating to the “Seeds of Change” initiative described http://j.mp/q9IZn .

In addition, we would be interested in possibly working with Mobenzi on a small pilot in one of the two following areas:

1. Engaging Mobenzi teleworkers to tag Tweets that include a request to act

Although many Tweets are simply sharing opinions or personal updates, others include calls to action. Examples of actions requests include asking followers to donate to a good cause, to fill in an online survey, or to stop purchasing from companies that causing harm to local or global communities.

A”RTa” or #R2A hashtag might be added to the Tweet in such cases. Such tags could help firms and nonprofit organizations quickly scan the feed from influential Twitterers, and spot emerging trends that can lead to actions.

Another very useful service might be to help Twitter users organize their archived Tweets (see BackupmyTweets.com) into visual “mindmaps” (see Mindmeister.com).

A client such as Openworld, in this case, could send Mobenzi a list of the preferred #hashtags that relate to the main topics in their web-based Mindmaps.

Then, the Mobenzi teams would go through the archived Tweets and add these preferred hashtags to the (untagged) Tweets.

Once the archived Tweets were updated with these hashtags, the archive could be exported into the web-based mindmap. The tagged archive would then auto-fill the Tweets into the corresponding topics in the Mindmap.

This Tweet->Mindmap service would let organizations like ours quickly show potential followers the range and depth of topics we cover.

Look forward to any thoughts on followup!

Best,

Mark Frazier
Openworld.com
@openworld @buildership (Twitter)

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