Back in September, we did some serious workshops with the Umeebee team in the Netherlands to design the looks and the concept of the site, the User Interface. We had fun! Here's a preview;
More images can be found in the Umeebee introduction video.
Then I was on my way to Canada. At the airport of Vancouver, we (Peter, founder of social actions and me) started our 5 week travel to inspire and get inspired, meeting great people, talking about great projects. Starting in Victoria, meeting with Tom Munnecke founder of the Uplift Academy , the three of us being interviewed by Jim Hedger about micro-philanthropy.
Web of Change was an amazing experience. Inspiring individuals, all in action, using technology to do good in this world. An interesting speed geek gave me the possibility to present my Umeebee ideas 10 times in a short 4 min presentation > hectic but interesting. Lots of great comments. Lots of synergies (See for example Luke’s project; we can build an orphanage) and great new contacts. The inspiration and positive reactions gave me a new energetic drive to make dreams come true…
Our trip continued to Seattle, San Francisco and New York. I experienced how well integrated technology is in North America in comparison to Africa and even Europe. Freelancers using the free wireless connection in so many different café’s, Peter doing his webinar (online conference presentation) and meeting people involved with some great online projects, for example; Haney from Omidyar, David Evan Harris, founder of Global Lives Project , Paul Lamb of Man on a mission consulting, Ben Rattray, founder of Change.org, Robert of Changing the present, Lars, founder of the Peace tiles Project, ...
It was a pleasure to meet you all (and all of you I didn’t even mention here), a pleasure to be able to show my ideas to you and get so many nice responses.
There are so many great projects online…let’s try to work together to DO GOOD in this overwhelming online space. I’ll soon write about Umeebee and future cooperation.