Live hugging and other green things
| February 12th, 2008Been meaning to write about Do The Green Thing for ages and now the guys over there have given me a really good reason to.
Right now, there’s some Do The Green Thing people cooped up in a cold room waiting for people like you and me to go there and give them ‘hugs’. Using a live webcam and a simple chat and ‘big hug button’ interface, you can interact live and see what happens when you type things and press the button. One of those ideas that often comes up in brainstorms - do something live on the web with a webcam and chat - but never ever gets executed. So, really nice to see someone actually doing at and committing to doing it well. When I went in there activity was actually pretty high, judging by the amount of chat going on and they were definitely live because I asked them!
The whole point of the thing is to tie into this month’s Green Thing of using body warmth which you’ll find out all about if you go check out the site.
There’s also a Flash Hug on Valentine’s Day and an active Facebook group too. Here’s the details for the Flash Hug:
February’s Green Thing is: Use Body Warmth (and turn your heating down a bit or off for a bit).
Come to Soho Square* at 1.30pm on Valentine’s Day and be part of the world’s first Body Warmth Flash Hug.
The plan: turn the heating down or off for a bit in your homes or offices, come to Soho Square at lunchtime, hug some beautiful people (or some of the Green Thing team) then go back to your unheated homes and offices with a huge body warmth boost.
Really like the look and feel of Do The Green Thing and it’s great to see a continuous flow of good stuff coming from DTGT HQ. Now I (and you!) just need to go do it this month and every month.
Disclaimer - I know some of the people at DTGT as I used to work with them at Zopa
