Become a FrontlineSMS icon!

by kiwanja

One of the more fun things about sharing our work at conferences, workshops and ICT4D gatherings is witnessing the reaction to our FrontlineSMS “\o/” logo. There’s something of a story behind this, and the badges that we take on the road with us have been enthusiastically gobbled up in their thousands. I will never again doubt the brilliance of the talented people at Wieden+Kennedy.

We’ve also been getting reactions from users in the field, and among our supporters, in the shape of photographs. We’ve got a growing collection, and we’ll soon be updating our Flickr page with the latest additions, and plan to make a short video of the best of them.

Talking of videos, hats off to @chrissiy for spotting this great Mercedes SLS advert which could, with the exception of the final few seconds, be the perfect advertisement for FrontlineSMS.

If you want to join in the fun, send us photos of you, your family or friends doing the \o/ and you could be a star in the first genuine FrontlineSMS video! Just email them to videopics [at] frontlinesms.com and we’ll do the rest. And if you want to take it a little further, how about trying some fun photos with the FrontlineSMS:Medic and FrontlineSMS:Credit logos? \+/ and \$/?

27 comments

1 Ken Banks { 06.24.10 at 11:33 am }: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. "Become a FrontlineSMS icon!" at http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
2 changefeed { 06.24.10 at 11:41 am }: ->@kiwanja: Become a FrontlineSMS icon! http://bit.ly/bwyMCU
3 FrontlineSMS o/ { 06.24.10 at 11:42 am }: RT @kiwanja: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. Become a FrontlineSMS icon! at http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
4 Nick Baldwin { 06.24.10 at 11:45 am }: RT @kiwanja: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. "Become a FrontlineSMS icon!" at http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
5 Heather LaGarde { 06.24.10 at 11:47 am }: love it RT @kiwanja: Mercedes [almost] make perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. Become FrontlineSMS icon! at http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
6 Laura Walker Hudson { 06.24.10 at 11:50 am }: Throw your hands in the air like you just don't care, take a pic, send it in, get a bit famous. You know you want t.o http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
7 Laura Walker Hudson { 06.24.10 at 11:50 am }: Throw your hands in the air like you just don't care, take a pic, send it in, get a bit famous. You know you want to. http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
8 iPayStation { 06.24.10 at 11:57 am }: RT @kiwanja: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. "Become a FrontlineSMS icon!" at http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
9 dan mcquillan { 06.24.10 at 12:08 pm }: Be a FrontlineSMS icon RT @laurawhudson Throw your hands in the air like you just don't care, take a pic, get famous. http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
10 @mikegechter's RSS { 06.24.10 at 12:12 pm }: Become a FrontlineSMS icon!: One of the more fun things about sharing our work at conferences, workshops and ICT4D… http://bit.ly/bwyMCU
11 digitalforgood { 06.24.10 at 12:34 pm }: ->@kiwanja: Become a FrontlineSMS icon! http://bit.ly/bwyMCU http://ow.ly/17RTVN
12 Bill Thompson { 06.24.10 at 1:11 pm }: RT @kiwanja: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. "Become a FrontlineSMS icon!" at http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
13 אהרון Amadeu Porto { 06.24.10 at 1:13 pm }: RT @digitalforgood: ->@kiwanja: Become a FrontlineSMS icon! http://bit.ly/bwyMCU http://ow.ly/17RTVN
14 Ben White { 06.24.10 at 1:48 pm }: this is great!
15 Andrew Zolli { 06.24.10 at 2:37 pm }: Send in a photo and become a FrontlineSMS Icon for #PopTech peep @kiwanja! http://bit.ly/drnXB3
16 Aleksei { 06.24.10 at 3:59 pm }: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. Become a FrontlineSMS icon! at http://is.gd/d1UId \o/ RT @kiwanja
17 marlonparker { 06.24.10 at 4:01 pm }: Become a FrontlineSMS icon by sharing your photo http://ow.ly/22L4H #FrontlineSMS
18 Aleksei { 06.24.10 at 4:03 pm }: Throw your hands in the air like you just don't care, take a pic, send it in, get a bit famous – http://is.gd/d1UId – RT @laurawhudson
19 Sarah George { 06.24.10 at 4:14 pm }: \o/ Throw your hands in the air like you just don't care, take a pic, send it in, get a bit famous http://is.gd/d1UId via @laurawhudson
20 Ken Banks { 06.24.10 at 4:36 pm }: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. "Become a FrontlineSMS icon!" http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
21 Rory Cellan-Jones { 06.24.10 at 5:21 pm }: Great viral marketing from tech development charity FrontlineSMS http://www.kiwanja.net/blog/2010/06/become-a-frontlinesms-icon/
22 Martin Keane { 06.24.10 at 5:24 pm }: RT @ruskin147: Great viral marketing from tech development charity FrontlineSMS http://www.kiwanja.net/blog/2010/06/become-a-frontlinesm …
23 Edward Cable { 06.24.10 at 5:29 pm }: RT @kiwanja: Mercedes [almost] make the perfect @FrontlineSMS ad. Help us make ours. "Become a FrontlineSMS icon!" http://is.gd/d1UId \o/
24 Nev Brook { 06.24.10 at 5:39 pm }: RT @ruskin147: Great viral marketing from tech development charity FrontlineSMS http://bit.ly/9xm7KL
25 Throw your hands up in the air : FrontlineSMS { 06.25.10 at 2:31 pm }: [...] little Friday fun in a good cause – as our Ken blogged yesterday, we think the photos that spontaneously started coming in from FrontlineSMS users and friends are [...]
26 Heather LaGarde { 06.26.10 at 2:10 pm }: just sent one in from the farm RT @andrew_zolli: Send in a photo &become a FrontlineSMS Icon 4#PopTech peep @kiwanja! http://bit.ly/drnXB3
27 Pablarribas Radar { 06.28.10 at 8:53 am }: dlcsubs Become a FrontlineSMS icon! | Build it Kenny, and they will come…: http://bit.ly/bwyMCU