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“Only you can change government”,says  Jennifer Pahlka from Code for America. Her non-profit uses the power of web-tools to assist in projects in cities across America. The good outcome of the projects benefits the citizens. She shows us what is possible if you dare to dream. “Code can be beautiful, simple and easy to use”, says Pahlka.
For example check out the project adopt a hydrant. The citizens of Boston where asked to take care of the hydrant closeby their house and make sure it was free from snow. They reported through and easy app. Other cities followed thanks to the open source code and sharing of information. As members of a community, we can fix things, not just complain.

Kenny Genborg, reporter at Göteborgs Posten writes an article today about the key to the future (Nyckeln till stans framgång)>>

Stop the complaining about housing, no work. Let us be inspired by this great example and come up with solutions that enable people to act!

2011 we hope to help our clients to build their brands through social media AND also do social good. Over the Christmas holidays, we got inspired by the many charity events taking place around the globe. We wanted to push our thoughts on passion even further. Paul did some research and found these two great examples on companies:

- Pepsi with the Refresh project. Anyone can submit an idea that has a positive impact they want sponsored. Each month the fans around the globe vote for their favourite.

- Dove´s campaign for real beauty. This is global campaign to strengthen the selm-esteem amongst women through workshops.

Yesterday, I celebrated my birthday and decided to challenge all my friends to give to charity on their birthdays. What got me the ideas was Charity water as you see in the video below.

What do you want to do? Get in touch!