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Flash Mobs

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UPDATED: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 10:51
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 10:26 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I just heard the term recently by a Brit friend who posted this. Give yourself a smile--gave me a tingle down my spine to see THAT many people do something like this. That's truly what I call a "mob"...and just think, if we could harness it for good...



I guess that's what the one in the train station, and all the others, are called? I think it's magnificent. That one was in Seattle. The most recent one:
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On Friday, June 4, at exactly 1 p.m. about 200 people opened umbrellas and started dancing outside a restaurant in Elgin, Illinois, as the Rihanna song "Umbrella" blared from a portable stereo. When the music stopped, everyone packed up their umbrellas and left while the curious lunchtime crowd watched and took pictures.

This festive scene repeated itself in cities across the United States including, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington. It may have looked spontaneous, but organizer Sarah Evans says it took about a month to put Social Mob 4 Good events together.

Evans is a public relations and new media consultant in Elgin, and thought the flash mobs would be a good way to draw attention to the challenges local social service agencies are facing. She used facebook, a Google group, Twitter and other social media tools to recruit local organizers and coordinate the events.

Many participants used CNN iReport to spread the word about the flash mobs. You can go to the assignment page to see their photos and videos and learn more about some of the agencies they were supporting.

Nakeva Corothers says that her small group got a lot of double takes when they started dancing in Washington's DuPont Circle, but said they achieved their goal. "When the music started people stopped to hear and see what we were talking about under those twirling umbrellas," she said.

http://www.ireport.com/blogs/ireport-blog/2010/06/08/flash-mobs-raise-
umbrellas-awareness?hpt=Sbin


There ARE good things happening in this terrible world...we just don't notice them most of the time.


Hippie Operative Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 10:51 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Yup, I love 'em, not just for the seeming spontaneity, but also for the implications, some of which were seen in the recent elections and protests in Iran.

Instantaneous communications can be a wonderful thing, and occasionally quite engaging, fun, and beautiful!

Mike

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