It’s October, and here come the #Pinkverts!
By Tom Megginson on 1 October 2013Read moreCall them what you want: “Pinktober” campaigns, “Pinkwashing”… our version is “Pinkverts”. They’re the annual rush of branded campaigns...
0Don’t count Femen out yet: An analysis of the recent controversy
By Tom Megginson on 5 September 2013Read moreEver since I first heard of the movement in 2009, I think I’ve always been enthusiastic about Femen because...
Interview: Mike Sukle about 9 years campaigning for Denver Water
By Marc van Gurp on 16 June 2013Read moreI did a lot of blogposts about the Denver water campaigns made by Sukle Advertising &Design. “Award winning, humorous,...
Commander Chris Hadfield: Making space (and Canada) cool again
By Tom Megginson on 13 May 2013Read moreThis evening (Eastern Standard Time), Canadian Space Agency astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield will return to Earth after five months...
Strategy: Laughing Our Way to a Better World
By Marc van Gurp on 12 May 2013Read moreAfrica For Norway was one of the highlights we wrote about last year. ‘The funniest campaign this year’ I...
Another review for Noah Scalin and Michelle Taute’s Design Activist’s Handbook
By Reuben Turner on 29 April 2013Read moreA while back, Noah asked if anyone from Osocio would review The Design Activist’s Handbook. Both Marc and I...
Feminism, Islamophobia, and the complicated politics of global human rights
By Tom Megginson on 6 April 2013Read moreEarlier this week, I wrote about Femen’s “Topless Jihad”. It was an international day of semi-nude protest against the...
Book review: Design Activists Handbook
By Marc van Gurp on 16 February 2013Read moreI started my working career in a printing house. It was in the late seventies, early eighties during the...
“Thinspiration Fanzine” – Art, Activism, or What?
By Tom Megginson on 24 January 2013Read moreBarcelona-based Laia Abril photographs anorexic women she has never met. Sitting in a dark room with her camera pointed...
Canada’s long-lost, government-funded, NSFW anti-pornography film
By Tom Megginson on 17 January 2013Read moreVia filmposter.net I started subscribing to Netflix a few months ago, and one of the best things about it...
Three things I learned while blogging about cause marketing in 2012
By Tom Megginson on 31 December 2012Read moreI have been blogging about this topic, here and elsewhere, for almost four years. I started doing it as...
What the American gay rights movement can teach all social marketers
By Tom Megginson on 29 November 2012Read moreOriginally published on Change Marketing Earlier this month, in the U.S. election, the issue of equal marriage rights for...
LA County porn to become one big safer sex PSA
By Tom Megginson on 7 November 2012Read moreLast week, the LA Times revealed shocking statistics that sexual performers in Los Angeles have much...
A new era in social fundraising?
By Tom Megginson on 18 October 2012Read moreAnyone who has been involved in a social-media-based fundraising effort knows that getting attention and shares is easy, but...
Blog Action Day: Don’t give in to the Dark Side of the “We” #BAD2012
By Tom Megginson on 15 October 2012Read moreToday, October 15, is Blog Action Day. It’s an opportunity for bloggers around the world to post simultaneously on...