During the last months, one of the writers of Kicks for Free has done extensive research to the organizational preconditions for successfully working with social media and working open source. This research first describes different specific organizational preconditions, and might thus also be interesting for other organizations. After that, the analysis zooms in to the [...]

Today we received a really nice article about ZXZW’s open souce businessmodel, the ‘Social Festival Model‘.
“We’re living in a time with turbulent technological and social developments. People are constantly connected with each other through online communities. Besides that, people are constantly creating their and each others opinion through these web technologies. The times were [...]

This is the first guest post on the Kicks for Free Blog. Berit Soolsma and Marije van Veen are students at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, in the following they explain a bit about Archive Paradiso, a graduation project aimed at opening up the complete heritage of Paradiso Amsterdam and combining it with the [...]