Introducing the AIDPOD concept
January 4, 2009 by Simon Berry
Click on the images to see them full-size on Flickr.
While in Tanzania I mocked up two types of ‘ColaLife’ pods and went out to get people’s reaction to them. The ‘wedge’ pod was much more popular than the ‘tube’, because the tube would displace a bottle.
Following this, at the first ColaLife face to face event, there was some discussion about what the pod should be called. Given that the pod idea has a broader application than Coca-Cola crates is ‘ColaLife Pod’ the right name?
Then on 27/12/08 in the BBC Radio 4 iPM feature, Eddie Mair rounded off the 10 minute interview saying “Simon Berry and his AidPod”. So we got the name we were struggling for after the face to face meeting. The following domain names have been registered just in case we need them in the future:
http://www.aidpod.org
http://www.aidpod.org.uk
http://www.aidpod.co.uk
Onwards and upwards.
ColaLife on BBC (UK) National Radio (27/12/08)
December 29, 2008 by Simon Berry
On Saturday, 27/12/08 the BBC ran a 10 minute feature on ColaLife updating the initial interview back in June on the BBC Radio 4 programme, iPM. It include bits from the original interview in June 2008, an update on progress and the vision from me and a clever audio cut from the frontline video filmed in Tanzania.
You can listen to it HERE (ignore the news at the beginning).
Eddie Mair finishes the feature saying “Simon Berry with his aidpod“. This is interesting because at the recent face-to-face meeting of ColaLife supporters there was lots a discussion about what the ‘ColaLife Pod’ should be called as the pod idea has applications beyond Coca-Cola, or Pepsi Cola for that matter. Terms like ‘healthpod’ and ‘lifepod’ are already in use for other things but ‘aidpod’ isn’t. So . . . . I’ve registered aidpod.org, aidpod.org.uk and aidpod.co.uk just in case we need them moving forward. For the moment I have re-directed these domain names to the ColaLife Blog.
If we adopted the term ‘aidpod’ then we would need to start talking in terms of ‘The ColaLife AidPod‘ which would leave space for the ‘Pepsi AidPod’ and the ‘Heineken AidPod’ etc etc
Any thoghts on the ‘aidpod’ name? What would it go down like on the frontline I wonder?
A holiday gift for all ColaLife supporters
December 24, 2008 by Simon Berry
Happy holidays everyone!
ColaLife is likely to be featured as ‘a highlight of the year’ in BBC Radio 4’s iPM programme (scroll down to ‘Greatest Hits’) on 27/12/08. If you are near a radio in the UK at 17:30 GMT on that day please tune in. Alternatively you can listen via the internet on the Radio 4 page.
Image credit: Cola-Cola gets everywhere, Les Menuires, Dec 2008. Simon Berry.
Summing up. ColaLife face-to-face gathering 16/12/08
December 18, 2008 by Simon Berry
Rather than write a long report we thought we’d sum the evening up there and then. We are, left to right, Simon Berry, William Hoyle (CTT) and Simon Cohen (Global Tolerance). David Wilcox (socialreporter.com) is on the camera and Ian Crawford is asking the questions.
It you’ve got 40 minutes to spare(!) you might want to watch this very informal delivery of the ColaLife story so far. Make yourself a cup of tea or grab a beer before pressing the play button. Thanks again to David Wilcox (socialreporter.com) for the camera work and editing.
If you’d like a copy of the Powerpoint presentation please leave a comment.
Why are you here? ColaLife face-to-face 16/12/08
December 16, 2008 by Simon Berry
| Steve Bridger | Megan Riera | Troy Kennedy |
| . | . | . |
| Richard Cooper & William Hoyle |
Jess Ponsford | Emma Berry |
| Luke Berry | Simon Cohen | Lance McPherson |
Here’s a selection of the lovely people who gathered at the Global Tolerance HQ in London tonight to talk about ColaLife. Thanks to everyone who came and to Simon Cohen and the team at Global Tolerance for hosting the gathering.
There were loads of great ideas for the next steps which we will report on over the next couple of days.
ColaLife on Twitter- Just read this about ColaLife which sounds great but if you are a cynic like me dont CC need to address employee safety 2 http://bit.ly/dnGf
- Trovus Revalations tells me that Google Inc are looking at the colalife website. They used an interesting search string - site:colalife.org
- Introducing the AIDPOD concept (from the ColaLife Camapign): Click on the images to see them full-size on Fli.. http://snipurl.com/9gunk
- RT @ThirdSectorLab This is a jolly good idea...http://www.colalife.org/
- This is a jolly good idea...http://www.colalife.org/
- ColaLife on Delicious
- Google AdWords: My Ad Campaign
- New Statesman - Mark Thomas discovers Coca-Cola's Nazi links
- BBC - Radio 4 - iPM
- ColaLifeThe wonder of the web, eh? There I was procrastinating (as usual), this time on Twitter, when I saw a few mentions of ColaLife by Kate Andrews. I wasn’t that interested at first, but clicked on the link. Fuck me. What a brilliant idea, created by a man I want to now know called Simon Berry, who had an idea during a live webchat:
- Why are you here? ColaLife face-to-face 16/12/08 : ColaLife
- ColaLife on Flickr