Take a look at this great campaign, a masterpiece in the art of storytelling fundraising. With only one number to remember, 600 million girls, the viewer can focus on the story about the girl. THIS is what makes a great campaign, the art of creating a bond between the viewer and the ONE girl, representing [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Linus
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Yes! After a long long time, this ingenious idea has finally found its way to the world!
What is it? It is a way for people to compensate for the negative impact that their digital activities have on the environment.  It is simple: You use your computer to read this blog, that will consume [...]

Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Linus
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This GiverSign’s graphics was designed by Shepard Fairy, most famous for his vintage style posters for the Obama campaign.
I think it is beautiful! Don’t you?

Earth Hour 2009 – Sign up for Earth Hour!

Posted on March 15th, 2009 by Linus
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I am very happy to announce a new GiverSign partner: Plan! Plan is today one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid organization. It started 1937 in Britain as a foster parent organization helping children that had lost their parents in the Spanish civil war. Today Plan is working in 66 countries all over the world [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Linus
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Here’s some really cool news about the Earth Hour campaign: Shepard Fairy, most famous for his iconic Obama portrait, is making a series of designs for Earth Hour and the final phase of the campaign. I have been told that Fairy’s designs will be applied to Earth Hour’s GiverSigns as well! Check out these beautiful [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Linus
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GiverSign has the potential to be very broad, a tool for the small as well as the monumental organizations and campaigns in the world. It can easily be adopted by the smallest as well as the largest online crowds supporting a common cause. The Earth Hour campaign and the WWF network are already starting to [...]

Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Linus
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After almost 2,5 years of hard work and determination I’m blessed to see GiverSigns spreading all over the world. It is WWF’s Earth Hour campaign that is taking our baby to new heights and places. Earth Hour is one of the largest, if not the largest, advocacy campaigns on the environment ever. It is the [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Linus
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It is amazing to look at the development of Viral TIME concepts over the last year. For those of you who have not yet contemplated on the title of this blog and what it really means, here it is:
Viral, as in viral,
TIMEs, as in time(s) of course, but also as in: Telecom, Internet, Media, Entertainment, [...]

Posted on January 4th, 2009 by Linus
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Asaasco is looking for technical support resources in Gothenburg for the upcoming global release of the GiverSign application. As a support resource, you will help GiverSign end-users to get started with their personal GiverSign app, using a questions and answers database. It is a very free and flexible job and you can work [...]

Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by Linus
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2008 – What an amazing trip its been!
I have gone from being a super-naive entrepreneur to become an almost-as-super-naive entrepreneur AND CEO of a VC funded Internet startup with, for the time being,  the world’s greatest web-technology under its wing.
Internet World gave me a 12th place at their hot-list for 2008, next year I’m [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Linus
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