Future:Media:Change

Two “outreach bloggers” were selected via a competition process among Australian bloggers, the winners Joel Katz and Sharna Bremner will be heading out to Bangladesh to work directly with people living in the slums in Dhaka, both blogging about their personal experience as well as setting up facilities and training community members on how to use social media, audio, video and blogging to share their stories.

Think big. Think really big. Double that, and you have an idea of why 1GOAL uses all caps in its name.

Today 1GOAL announced a mobile initiative as big as its goal to provide universal education: using SMS to invite 1.5 billion people to support the campaign.

Location based social network Foursquare counted their 40 millionth checkin according to a tweet from one of their developers.

Nielsen and Facebook found friend endorsement of brands through the site’s “Become a Fan” functionality increased ad recall 30%, brand awareness 13%, and purchase intent 8% with certain levels of social context

With 17,396 views on YouTube since it was posted eight days ago, this Brazilian video may have what it takes to “go viral.” Real ants actually carry protest “signs” against an insecticide. As the description says, “Real ants, real cardboards, a real motive: a protest against Baygon.”

The Personal Democracy Forum has just made it easier to decide what tech firm to hire for your organization’s e-mail marketing, mobile messaging, online fundraising, or CRM, by publishing “Who to Hire: the PdF Political Technology Guide.”

For a brand new social entrepreneurial outfit TANO design is already producing iconic designs. A quick look at their sleek site gives you the feeling of a fine balance between history and innovation, art and revolution.

In a similar way to Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obama image and Jim Fitzpatrick’s high-contrast drawing of Che Guevara, TANO’s designs are also centered around what its founder and designer Eddie Mandhry calls ‘iconic personalities’.