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My pathway to learning to seek and embrace positive change in my life and in the world. It takes inspiration from organizations such as TED and MIT seeking pragmatic solutions and personal wisdom in redefining one's self.
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Digging through Web 2.0 for Feelings and Facts and Fraternity
My last few posts used slacktivism to make a point about online activism, but the lesson that I have taken from my blogging and wanted to pass on to others is that Web 2.0 tools can be used to tell the story of a cause not just the facts. The story ...
Appealing to the Slacktivists
In the last post of this blog I made a defense of slacktivists in general, though I ended up agreeing with so many points made by Evgeny Morozov that slacktivists will still not be able to hold their own convention. This post will also be in support ...
Navigating Our Lives, Our Economy, Our World with the Cellphone,
The cellphone has been a basic tool of micro-enterprise in numerous countries for sometime now. On a local level, it provides a relatively cheap means of communication, organization and control. Now it is beginning to create a new paradigm on a gl...
Being There, Being Everywhere, Being Where It Counts
Social media is a the same time both very personal and global in its reach. It provides an opportunity to reach millions, but can connect one-on-one regarding the challenges we face in the world. The two articles below demonstrate the span of infl...
The Importance Getting a Single Message from a Social Media Network
I have been thinking about how organizations, and especially what I call change-agent organizations, can use Web 2.0 tools to get their message across with the greatest impact. This combines both marketing and organizational concerns. Social Media ...
Economic CPR with Web 2.0 Help or Hurt?
We have an ever evolving relationship with the Internet and Web 2.0, as individuals, as societies and perhaps as change-agent organizations. What the relationship is depends to a great largely, though not always, on how old you are and what is more...
Penelope Trunk Takes the Pressure Off
Yesterday, OK day before yesterday, Penelope Trunk had a post on Reality check: You're not going to make money from your blog in Blogging, Journalism. I don't follow anyone with twitter-like devotion, but I find a good deal of useful insight readin...
Blogging to Save the World from My Laptop
One topic I keep repeatedly going over is why I blog. The basic reason was as a learning tool, which I learned was readily shared with others, which I found I enjoyed doing. My other blog was created in part to apply what I had or was learning to ...
Still 50 ways to better social media
This blog started off exploring pathways into the world of Web 2.0 and found a myriad of pathways available through social media which involves learning, experimenting and then using either here or at my other blog Milestones for a New Millennium. On...
Making Change Making More Change Bit by Bit
One pathway of exploration that this blog has taken me is global health delivery. It was initially an interest in how business management systems could improve the efficiencies of social beneficial delivery systems such as global health. It has be...
YouTube From the Self Indulgent to Global Outreach
One of the more popular social media tools on the Internet is YouTube, which started off as means for millions to upload self-indulgent videos of themselves, has now become both an information resource tool and a means of connecting with others on so...
Branding as Commodity Finding Connection Through Leadership
Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab, wrote in the early part of this year on The Shrinking Advantage of Brands in Harvard Business Publishing. His definition is not universally accepted, as can be determined from the comments section of the...
SAUDADES SERENDIPITY
I wrote before about being part of the Orkut group End POVERTY / Fim POBREZA and about accepting the small pages status of my blogs. One part of that is that there are greater opportunities for sojourns into serendipity. A friend from Orkut by ...
Inform, Engage, and Empower During Your Freetime
One new set of connections created through my Milestones for a New Millennium blog was through becoming one of the moderators for the Orkut group End POVERTY / Fim POBREZA. I find that Orkut offers more of a conversation regarding relevant topics tha...
