Yes! We’re open!

Posted by Marc | 28-11-2007 16:56 | Category: Osocio

Finally we’re back after a six months break.This is the follow-up of Houtlust, the first social advertising and non-profit campaigns blog. A new name, Osocio, many more features and better technique.
We will go on with publishing do-gooder campaigns from all over the world. But there is more…

We are ambitious, when we speak about social advertising, we want to be the central online hub for advertisers, ad agencies, grassroots, activists, social entrepreneurs, and good Samaritans from around the globe. That’s why Osocio is more than just a showcase of ads. Try the navigation bar above and explore:

• Profiles - a showcase of ngo’s worldwide. We offer any ngo a profile for free.
• News - the lastest news from and for do-gooders worldwide
• Agenda - All the relevant social advertising and marketing seminars, workshops, awards and events.
• Dictionary - All the terms, often used on Osocio, about social advertising, design and marketing explained.
• Member section - You can contribute! Will be available soon.

Osocio will be Houtlust 2.0. We love to hear your suggestions, your news agenda or profile entries, your tips, campaigns, anything about Social Advertising.
Meet us at our Social Advertising and Osocio group at Facebook or follow us at Twitter.

While Houtlust was curated by one person, Osocio has several contributors, each of whom are specialists in a specific field of the diverse non-profit sector. We are glad to welcome these experts to the Osocio team:

• Armando Alves, a interactive ninja from Portugal, working as Head of Interactive at DraftFCB Portugal and blogger at asourceofinspiration.com.
• Dan Matutina, the Creative Director of Idea!s – a Philippine-based nonstock, nonprofit design and communications agency focused on doing advertising works for nonprofit organizations.
• Gillo Cutrupi, blogger at Total Tactics. Internet strategist and public outreach consultant, has helped activist and environmental groups in developing offline and online communities..
• Liz Losh, the Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine and teaches about digital rhetoric (US). Also writing daily at Virtualpolitik.
• Noah Scalin, Noah is a lifelong activist and founder of the award winning, socially conscious design and consulting firm Another Limited Rebellion (US). He will join our team in the spring of 2008.
• Serge Fenenko, Managing Director at Novocortex B.V. They manages market introductions of innovative products. Because of his Russian roots he will write about Social Advertising from Eastern Europe.

More about Osocio and the team at the About pages readable in many languages. (We are looking for volunteers for translating our About page in languages which aren’t mentioned yet.)

Making Osocio the past months wouldn’t be possible without our friends and fans. We are very proud of:

• John Emerson and HC Chan for helping with the CSS.
• David LittleJohn for making the excellent copy for the About page.
• Irfan Toni H, Wing Ho Tsang, Gabi Vogt, Jean Julien, Gillo Cutrupi, Dan Matutina, Armando Alves, Olaf Koens, Michal Pastier, Eva-Lotta Wilander and Erkan Saka for doing a great job translating the About page.
• Nedra Kline Weinreich, Matthieu Dijoux, Sebastian Popa, Firat Yildiz, Arturo de Albornoz, Giuseppe Contaldo, Deny Zatariano and Vítor Bessa for helping to choose the name Osocio (it was a battle between Osocio and Campaid)
• All friends at Facebook and Twitter.
• Kari-Anne Fygi for editing my stonecoal English.

Last but not least:

• Alef de Jong for all his advice about branding. With Alef we developed the name Osocio
• All the guys from Onstuimig who did a tremendous job building this site.

Peace
Marc van Gurp

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Comments

By the way, the old site, Houtlust, will stay alive for a while until all the content is removed to Osocio. Unfortunately we aren’t able to move all your comments to this new site.

Posted by Marc | 28-11-2007 20:33

From Montreal :

Welcome Back Marc !
I am so happy to ear about you again.

Posted by ipub | 29-11-2007 19:18

This is awesome! Superb content with great design. Have you heard about upcoming.org from Yahoo? Maybe you can use the service to update your agenda on left of this blog More people can subscribe via RSS, and driven more traffic to Osocio.

Anyway, I’m now playing around with Osocio. Can’t wait until Monday. Thanks again for the blogroll.

Irfan
http://kampanye.org

Posted by Irfan | 29-11-2007 20:56

Wlcome back!! Houtlust was the best social advertising blog and I’m happy it will continue there.

Posted by Guillaume | 30-11-2007 00:56

Nice design, and that name rocks! :)

Posted by Jeroen Mirck | 30-11-2007 12:04

I am very happy to have you on line.

Posted by Marco | 30-11-2007 17:07

yay! :D im happy to be onboard marc. :D cheers y’all!

Posted by Dan Matutina | 1-12-2007 10:45

Koel! Add to RSS ;)

Posted by Floris | 1-12-2007 15:46

Really nice work !

Posted by Vladimir | 1-12-2007 15:47

Houtlust was fine and made much impact everywhere; Osocio, I’m sure, will be even better. Some challenge! Moreover, it’s quite an honour for us Dutch bloggers to have this Dutch guy Marc running such an international weblog on such truly important developments ...
Finally, I feel flattered, of course, that Alef decided to incorporate part of my name in Osocio (:-).
Keep up the good work and lots of success, Marc !

Posted by Michael van Os | 1-12-2007 16:24

The new social advertising platform you build is great! And I’m honoured that I could participate in the transformation from Houtlust to Osocio!

Good luck to everybody who is doing good and contributes to this blog.

@ michel: the pleasure is al mine ;-)

Posted by Alef de Jong | 2-12-2007 11:40

I’m looking forward to the live version, and will do my best to help Osocio

Posted by Armando Alves | 2-12-2007 15:58

YAY!
We’re here!
I followed houtlust from the last year, I’m italian and I even made an italian ad blog just reading houtlust and falling in mad love with it!
Good luck and..I’m on this project too!

Posted by Calliroe | 3-12-2007 00:17

Great Marc, the web needs a site like this!

Posted by Juan Carlos Labbe | 3-12-2007 01:55

welcome back!
I remember finding your xs4all site (being an ex-xs4all blogger meself) and thinking that your idea was wonderful. It’s a delight to see you guys back in action again..

grtz,
frenchy!

Posted by frenchy! | 3-12-2007 11:18

hi marc, fabulous work! so glad that you are back :)

Posted by gabi vogt | 3-12-2007 11:28

Good to see you’re back!
I always enjoyed Houtlust, it was one of my daily favorites.
Good luck with your new site!

Posted by .jrn | 3-12-2007 11:44

It´s been a long time since we´re missing Houtlust. It´s great to see you here again.

Ole!

Posted by Carlos el rojo | 3-12-2007 13:09

Hi Marc and all the team of Osocio,

Happy to see you again on the non-profit communication web !

See U

Matthieu
http://www.agitateursdesolidarite.org

Posted by Matthieu - agitateur | 3-12-2007 13:23

Yes, you’re finally back!! Looking forward to read you again!

Posted by BuzzingBees.be | 3-12-2007 13:38

I’m glad to hear you’re back.

Posted by Newbrigand | 3-12-2007 14:56

Great job Marc and great day for us. I thing Osocio is going to be the new “bible” of Social advertising.
See U
paolo

Posted by Paolo - fundraisingnow | 3-12-2007 20:07

Congratulations Marc and all the team!

Posted by Jos | 3-12-2007 20:22

What a great new, Marc! Congratulations, we missed a lot all this stuff you used to post. Nice site and design.

Posted by Arturo de Albornoz | 4-12-2007 07:58

Congrats Marc,

really great site it turned out to be!!
Great design, and very welcome functionality you’ve added!
Your RSS has been added,

keep up the great work!!!!

Ellen Janssens

Posted by Ellen | 4-12-2007 12:16

Welcome back and congrats for his new site. This is one step further towards philanthropy2.0
i already included your RSS to my reader, and be sure i ‘ll add your site in my blogroll soon.
Sacha
http://fontainedepierres.blogspot.com/

Posted by Sacha | 4-12-2007 17:18

Very glad to have you back!

Posted by mesz | 4-12-2007 19:56

Hi Marc!!!
It´s great to have this site open!!!
Thanks for all the contents
Good luck!!!

Bests

Pablo Olmos Arrayales

Posted by Pablo Olmos Arrayales | 4-12-2007 23:09

So glad to have you back. Can you also reinstate full articles in your RSS feed? With only excerpts to go on, I am much less likely to click, load your site, and read further.

Posted by Jeff Werner | 5-12-2007 06:47

Congratulations on successfully transforming yourselves! There is always a need to reinvent oneself and the same concept applies to blogs as well. It keeps the outlook fresh and the energy alive. I’m pretty sure that Osocio would be making bigger differences and bigger steps from hereon. Cheers!

Posted by jen_chan, writer MemberSpeed.com | 5-12-2007 07:18

Fantastic job, Marc (and all the members of the team)!
Social advertising has a new face and attention will grow by your efforts.

Posted by Peter te Velde | 5-12-2007 15:00

Congratulations and welcome back with this great site! So glad… :)

Posted by Nassos K. | 6-12-2007 11:13

Great improvement! Name is brilliant, so is the design.

good luck Marc, I’ll come here even more often…

Posted by EJ | 7-12-2007 14:43

Glad to see this blog back. Congratulations for the design, it’s really wonderful. And of course, great job about social marketing. Houtlust discovered a new world to me in this sense. Thanks!

Posted by Lucía | 7-12-2007 17:33

Hi

Being in the social marketing industry, I think this site is a great way of keeping on top of global trends, and seeing the differences orgaisations are trying to make in their respective countries.

I will be sure to keep a close eye on your latest postings. Thanks.

Posted by Virginia | 3-01-2008 07:15

Nice design, and that name rocks

Posted by Promovare | 9-03-2008 16:03

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