Comments on: Ask for Fairtrade (a twitter experiment)

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:26:55 +0000

This is an awesome idea. I think it would be great to use the info you have to put together a google map listing all the known fair trade coffee houses

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:16:49 +0000

Hey Jackie

I’ll see what we can do as the experiment builds up. Right now we’ve only had around 10 or 15 reports – and often I would find it tricky from the twitter reports to exactly locate the cafes and coffee houses mentioned.

But I’ll have a think about whether we could make anything meaningful like the UKSnow experiment which encouraged participants to use a standard format in Tweets in order to gather data and map it… See http://www.benmarsh.co.uk/snow/

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:40:59 +0000

Hey Tim,

You ought to create an easy access list of cafes and coffeehouses that have been found fair-trade-friendly through this experiment of yours. It would be useful, not having to read through everyone’s comments.

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By: Zarah

Zarah — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:54:51 +0000

Great idea. I will be sure to post my next experience. I posted about your experiment on Change.org’s Fair Trade blog http://tr.im/2dg4 and shared a mini story of my own on there.

Thanks for setting this up.

Zarah

By: Mark Mapstone

Mark Mapstone — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:22:01 +0000

hey tim, I hadn’t even realised that this was going on. I’ve seen that fairtrade logo all over the place and naturally assumed it was ‘all fairtrade’ … hmm, you’ve got me thinking now. I’ll look out for it in future.

By: Mike Amos-Simpson

Mike Amos-Simpson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:43:09 +0000

I think they’ve improved more recently but I know at [the conference & training centre I used to work at] the Fair Trade stuff only came out for select customers ie. the posh ones or the ‘eco’ ones! I think it was most likely to do with saving costs that it wasn’t out more generally but it does show a misuse of Fair Trade which is one of my biggest concerns about it – so good idea to challenge this Tim

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:26:12 +0000

Hey Helen, Steph

Thanks for the positive feedback

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:04:50 +0000

Hi Tim,
I came accross your blog this morning and think your ask for fairtrade experiment is a great idea. Cafédirect (where I work) has a whole lot of campaign kits that include fairtrade samples, a dvd on fairtrade and (drumroll) request cards, that are a really easy way of suggesting that shops and cafes to stock fairtrade. You can get a free kit sent out to you (it also has loads of other ideas and resources) by becoming a friend of Cafédirect.
Good luck
(I may have to work out Twitter and have a look)
Helen