Over the past year we’ve seen an increase in interest from community members who are keen to be active on Social Networking sites. The Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) have been running Social Media programmes for adults over the past 2 years and this year they’ve experienced high volumes of participants in all their classes. The [...]
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Older Adults growing on Social Networks
Posted: 30th August 2010 by Marlon in News, social mediaTags: Mom 2.0, Mom 3.0, RLabs, Senior Mobile Session, social media, The Reconstructed
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The Reconstructed 2010
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by Marlon in News, social mediaTags: RLabs, social media, The Reconstructed
We’ve started our latest Reconstructed class where we will take men and women from the local community on the lifechanging journey of Social Media. The class will be managed by the ex-Reconstructed team of 2008 and 2009. Some of the topics that will be covered in the evening sessions are:
- Blogging
- Micro-Blogging
- File-Sharing sites
- Location-based [...]
From the Cape Flats to Europe
Posted: 4th August 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, News, Uncategorized, business, social mediaTags: Aalto University, Cape Flats, Community-driven Innovation, Innovation, JamiiX, JamiiX API, JamiiX Europe Launch, JamiiX Live, JamiiX World Tour, Pajat, Reconstructed Living Lab, RLabs
The second leg of the JamiiX World Tour was Helsinki, Finland where it would be the first time JamiiX will be made available to Europe. JamiiX is a Web 2.0 technology that manages and aggregates conversations via (Mobile) Instant Messengers and Social Networks in a central place. The story of JamiiX is that it is [...]
Why Social Services should go Mobile
Posted: 23rd July 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, Mobile, News, social mediaTags: advice support, Angel, Community Empowerment, JamiiX, Mobile Counselling, Mobile Phones, mxit, RLabs, youth
It has been one month since we’ve re-launched our Angel support service a partnership between Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) and MXit. Since then the service had over a 100,000 subscribers with just over 47,000 regular subscribers. Organisations who are working with youth should consider the use of Mobile phones as part of their programmes and [...]
One Percent Club: You Make it Work
Posted: 23rd July 2010 by Marlon in Uncategorized, business, social mediaTags: 1% Club, Community 2.0, Community Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Giving, social media, Web 2.0
Many opportunities exist to get involved with emerging social projects and one that RLabs have found to be extremely effective is the Innovative One Percent Club. 1% Club is the marketplace that connects smart development projects with people, money and knowledge around the world (Something similar to the Kiva initiative – See video above). With [...]
Social Media at UCT Graduate School of Business
Posted: 21st July 2010 by Marlon in Uncategorized, social mediaTags: Community Empowerment, Community in Tension (CiT), Facebook, mxit, RLabs, social media, twitter, UCT
Today I had the opportunity to share at the UCT Graduate School of Business MBA programme on the use of Social Media to empower communities. Some of the Social Media information I used can be viewed in short presentation below:
Social Media and more Social Media
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Mobile Journalism at RLabs
Posted: 14th June 2010 by Marlon in Mobile, News, social mediaTags: Community Empowerment, Mobile Journalism, Mobile Phones, RLabs, social media
The collaboration between RLabs and Cape Community Newspapers to bring Mobile Journalism to the community have been going well with the last few weeks having a focus on technologies such as Twitter, Facebook and blogging to share stories via their mobile phones. The learners from 3 high schools in Cape Town have been taught some [...]
JamiiX: Our baby is growing up
Posted: 8th June 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, Mobile, News, business, social mediaTags: Cape Town, JamiiX, Mobile Instant Messengers, RLabs, Social Innovation, social media, South Africa, Start-up
Tonight was one of the most amazing experiences we’ve had in RLabs where we saw our little baby JamiiX growing up and taking its first step. JamiiX is a web-based platform that has been incubated in RLabs for almost 3 years and having the opportunity to make it public was a memorable one. Not only [...]
“I’m So Over SMS” – the future of mobile messaging as told by youth
Posted: 7th June 2010 by Marlon in Mobile, social mediaTags: Mobile Instant Messaging, Mobile Phones, Mobile Youth, SMS, social media, youth
Below once again a great presentation by Graham D Brown of Youth Research Partners:
"I'm So Over SMS" – the future of mobile messaging as told by youth
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New kid on the block
Posted: 6th June 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, Mobile, News, social mediaTags: Community in Tension, Innovation, Instant Messengers, JamiiX, RLabs, Social Innovation, social media
With the excitement building for the JamiiX launch it is definitely going to be one of the most interesting 48 hours we’ve had for a while. The JamiiX team are working hard and many thanks to all at RLabs for the support. It is not always easy being the “New Kid on the block” but [...]