Maarten van Leeuwen

Special project: Building a corporate social responsibility platform

Maarten van Leeuwen — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:43:04 +0000

Ok it’s time to introduce you to an idea that kept me awake a couple of weeks ago and that I couldn’t let go since. While writing a blogpost today I wasn’t able to focus on that topic
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Crowdfunding: a marketing tool for cool dreams that need a kickstarter

Maarten van Leeuwen — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:09:24 +0000

Last Wednesday, I attended a seminar about crowdfunding. Looking for inspiration and to get a status update on what is happening these days in the field of crowdfunding. I have worked for Pifworld, a fundraising platform for cool projects that [...]

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Are you getting the most out of your tweets?

Maarten van Leeuwen — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:22:19 +0000

The great thing about social networks is the ‘social’ part in it. If you use social networks to learn and engage with others that like to learn and exchange knowledge nice things can happen. Two weeks ago me and my [...]

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World Food Day: Food prices, from crisis to stability

Maarten van Leeuwen — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:13:43 +0000

It is not just Steve Jobs Day on 16 October. It’s also World Food Day. On this day we celebrate that in 1945 the United Nations founded the Food and Agriculture Organization. You have to [...]

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A Twitter debate organized by Fairfood

Maarten van Leeuwen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:02:58 +0000

Fairfood organized a Twitter debate. A review on how they organized themselves.

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Facebook: how to leave a Group

Maarten van Leeuwen — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:19:21 +0000

Sometimes people add other people to a Facebook Group without asking if they wish to be part of a Group. Someone asked me this week how to leave a group on Facebook, so this is just a brief description on how [...]

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Organizing an event: Be Good Be Social – Amsterdam 2011

Maarten van Leeuwen — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:55:49 +0000

I’ll be taking the lead in organizing a event in Amsterdam this year called Be Good Be Social. This event perfectly fits my desire to spread knowledge and expertise on digital / social media in the non profit sector. More [...]

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Pifworld, how it started

Maarten van Leeuwen — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:24:27 +0000

Pifworld, the online charity fundraising platform, created a short movie to show you how it all started a couple of years ago. Please have a look at this video. Oh and btw my name is somewhere at the end. [...]

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I’m sorry I have uploaded illegal content to YouTube… Back to Copyright School

Maarten van Leeuwen — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:36:06 +0000

… that contained material that was copied from television. YouTube just made very clear that I made a mistake for posting an item to YouTube that was copied from television. It was a copy of a crash in the [...]

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An evening of community building at Pifworld: bundle forces for a better world

Maarten van Leeuwen — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:47:06 +0000

Last Thursday I went back to the Pifworld office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Pifworld is an online charity platform based on crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. On Pifworld you can create a profile, find a project that you like and support [...]

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