7 Mar 2011

Simple way to help the Christchurch Cafe community - christchurchcafe.com

Some of the hardest hit businesses are those that rely on day to day activity to ensure survival and cafe's are no exception. Many of Christchurch's inner city cafe's are doing it real tough at the moment. With no way of getting into the corden, no customers and potentially months of waiting until they can start again many employers and employees alike are feeling the pinch. 

Carl Sara of Crafted Coffee Company has come up with a great way that anyone from around the world can do a small thing to help a large amount of people. www.christchurchcafe.com is a virtual cafe, serving virtual coffee, beans and even expressio machines to those doing it tough at the moment. 

The idea is super simple, rather than buying a coffee simply buy a virtual one online. All the money goes to help those businesses and staff effected by the quake in the form of $200 a month payments. Carl assures me all the money is tightly controlled and only goes to those who need it. 

Check out this short interview with Carl about the idea. 

 

 

11 Feb 2011

Missing Link Post Boxing day shift

In the aftermath of the Boxing Day quake in Christchurch, NZ there were many additional businesses that found they had to relocate due to additional damage to their buildings. Missing Link was one of those. 

Not only did they have to shift but they only had an hour to clear out the entire office and boardroom and load everything into a container. 

Once the word came through about this the word was passed through social media channels like Twitter and Facebook, people turned up who had never met the Missing Link crew before! It was truly amazing. 

This short video shows some of the damage, the work of those cleaning out the office and even saving some of the plant! 

Enjoy. 

11 Feb 2011

Vidhost is now on Posterous - Online Video Creation

Thats right, Vidhost is joining the Posterous crowd and is now using vidhost.posterous.com to share more information about online video, recent projects, images and more.
Phil the online video producer

Phil Benoit's Space

Trying to help the world see through my lens. You can check out my corporate website at http://www.vidhost.co.nz or my personal website at http://philbenoit.com