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Frequently asked questions

What is Koowall?

Koowall is a company that provides online platforms for groups and individuals to generate impact through Collective Jamming, a form of online disruption that plays on the emotions of the collective. Each Koowall allows individuals, groups and companies to create, a rolling social portrait that is both powerful and innovative yet resides on a simple platform.

What is Collective Jamming?

Collective Jamming is a form of online disruption that plays on the emotions of the collective viewers and bystanders…
Jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public space, or as a reaction against social conformity…
Sometimes this entails transforming social media...

What is Collective Jamming Technology (CJT)?

A set of patent pending algorithms that allows from 1 to 200 million people to create a timelined rolling social portrait that is both powerful and innovative yet resides on a simple platform.

Who should use Koowall?

Brands, Enterprises, Communities, Groups, Fans, Supporters or friends, in other words those who
...desire to create something from which the larger community would benefit?
...enjoy practicing a craft at which they excel?
...want to collaborate, in the context of crowdsourcing, in a way that generates collective reward.
...want to participate in the creation of something collectively from scratch not based on individual profiles?
...want to be able to easily track backward and forward through all the living experiences of the group on an interactive, timelined platform.
...want to trackback one day, one week or numerous year, and relive everything that one has experienced together with friends, family, or acquaintances ?
...want to be able to participate and a part of an uninhibited Global Community where your privacy is not threatened?
...want to participate in something new, cool and unique that is perceived as uniquely human?
...want to create a memorial, a rolling canvas of feelings, and open protest wall?
...want to build a living mural of the world?

How are some groups and individuals using Koowall?

Organizing Social Movements…

Take Back The Tech is a group of activist using Koowall to aggregate public opinion around gender-based violence. Showing videos and pictures of events and efforts are helping their movement grow in numbers.

Fan Pages…

San Francisco Giants Fans have created walls to express their team spirit. Capturing videos and pictures of players, plays, and fans at the ballpark on a Koowall, allows everyone to experience the excitement.

Capturing Events…

MaiTai Kite Camp is using Koowall to capture large networking events. Users post pictures and text about what is happening at the event so everyone can experience it on the Koowall as it happens. Koowall also captures the event and allows you to chronologically scroll back though to re-experience or view anything you missed.

Opinion Pages…

The Greatest Movie Moments Koowall is a popular wall that people from all over the world are using to post their favorite movie clips. Everyone wants his or her movie to be represented.

Keeping it between us…

Many families and private organizations are using Koowall to capture more intimate experiences and memories. Keeping the exposure limited to only those they want to invite.

What can I use Koowall for?

Each Koowall is a blank canvas, an open space for individual and group expression and creativity. Koowall is open to your interpretation. For ideas on how other groups, individuals and Brands are using Koowall see Q: How are some groups and individuals using Koowall?

How are organizations & brands using Koowall?

Koowall is helping organizations take back their social networks! Koowall will allow your brand to take control of how you manage your audience, users, & loyal customers to increase traffic, reduce churn & generate more revenue. You can also integrate Koowall into your own web property!
Koowall gets brands into real sCRM; Social Customer Relationship Management. Koowall is the first web/tool/realwall on the Net that lets your brand build a unique, differentiated social network with your clients & customers: a social tool for CRM.
Let your constituents be heard! Koowall allows you to provide those who mean the most to you a place to be heard. Suggestions, complaints, praise, ideas....Koowall makes it fun to get involved and easy to respond. At the same time, providing a platform to launch, track and generate support around new initiatives, products, and releases.
The product has received acclaim from early customers as well as companies that, for ages, have been looking for one really unique social media application to relate with their customers.

What's the difference between Koowall and other social networks?

Koowall has developed the concept of the Collective Jamming, that takes Koowall apart from any other social network out there: it is a form of online disruption that plays on the emotions of the collective viewers and bystanders....
jammining is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public space, or as a reaction against social conformity...
Sometimes this entails transforming social media...

Based on this concept and our mission, Koowall has developed CJT (Collective Jamming Technology (TM)...a set of patent pending innovative algorithms for:

  1. Reshaping the way communities share information and multimedia files to create a new social interactions
  2. A unique timelined social architecture for a real-time tracking of communities’ experiences
  3. Shaped a new paradigm on the social UI that provides a multimedia visual experience for communities
  4. Created an uninhibited communities and individuals, as a group, are able to create unique social canvases as anonymously as they would like, placing the importance on the content and the collective, and not the individual
  5. The ability to be the home of The Great KooWall, a world wide Mural comprised of files shared by a world wide community may become the most unique and social visual mural of all time

What types of koowalls are there?

Koowalls are organized by usage.

  • Avenue: Everybody can see and post shouts in them.
  • Street: Everybody can see them but users need an invite to post shouts.
  • Alley: They are completely closed. Nobody can see or post to them unless they are invited by someone who's already a member.

Who are the koowalls useful for?

Koowall was developed thinking about the power of communities, so here they are:

  • Personal & Friends: This have no specific subject but are a place were you and your loved ones can create something together.
  • Fans & Tribes: For all of you out there who are crazy about a subject, a sport, a music group or what not and want to have a place where to say it all and say it together.
  • Social & Revolutions: If you want to change something and you're truly passionate about it, this is the place for you to reach out to the community.
  • Enterprise & Brands: For those companies that need tools to engage in a new social addictive experience with those who they work for.

What's a shout?

A feeling, emotion, thought, idea, symbol, art, or any other form of creative uniqueness that is expressed through multimedia and becomes a vital piece to the collective voice captured on each Koowall

How do I post content?

You can post a shout by clicking on the right side menu from within a specific koowall.
You can choose between video, text or an image
Once you click on it you'll be prompted to add the shout plus some valuable information to give context to your shout like tags or a related url.

How do I invite my friends to Koowall?

Simple.
You just need to click on the invite button on the upper right menu from inside a koowall. Your invite will allow the invitee to participate in that specific koowall and in all other avenues (see definition).

How do I find new koowalls?

Go to your dashboard by clicking on the menu item.
There you will find all the koowalls you have created or participated in (My koowalls) plus recommendations of some great avenues (see definition) to visit and be part of.

How can I interact with someone else's shout?

If you click on any shout posted on a koowall, a pop up will open where you'll be able to find more information about that specific shout. If it's a video shout you'll be able to play it or for a long text shout, you'll be able to read it.
But also there are some interactivity features. For example, you can share it by email or Facebook or click on Shout on Shout to create a text reply shout.
Use the "I support" button to show to the world your support to a specific shout.