Do we fight technology or work with it as it changes our behavior (or is it changing our behavior at all?)
I’ve had Brian Solis’s new book - The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution – on my shelf for a few months now, so I’m diving in (and he’s conveniently structured it with short chapters, which are greatly appreciated!). The first chapter dove right into the
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Fast Company presents Innovation Uncensored 2012 #IU12
I’m excited to be part of Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored event on 18 April in NYC. The event is described as follows: INSIGHT. INSPIRATION. IMPACT. Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored event embodies the ethos of our brand and represents the culmination of our work throughout the year. Innovation is at the core of everything we do.
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Girls in Tech at #SXSW – What is Entrepreneurship?
Several GIT-ers are headed to SXSWi this coming weekend, and we’ll be having a panel discussion on Sunday, details below. Let me (@just_kate) know if you’ll be down there to say hi! And please use the hashtag #GITSXSW so we can keep up with the fun. PANEL: Everybody’s a Bloody Entrepreneur! Or Are They? Sunday,
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Alec Ross, Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton #SMWReuters #SMWNYC
Alec Ross serves as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where he is tasked with maximizing the potential of technology and innovation in service of America’s diplomatic goals and stewarding Secretary of State Clinton’s 21st Century Statecraft agenda. In this role, Alec helps ensure America’s leadership and advances the State Department’s
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How Social Media Has (Or Hasn’t) Changed Civic Movements [Social Media Week Panel] #SMWNYC #SMWReuters
There have been plenty of comparisons made between the Vietnam protests of the 60’s and the current Occupy Wall Street movement that is spreading across the globe. But today’s Occupiers have a few things many of their parents didn’t have: cell phones, social networks, the Internet – just to name a few. This panel included
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Douglas Rushkoff on When Change is Always On [Social Media Week] #SMWReuters #SMWNYC #SMWSocialChange
Douglas Rushkoff is a world-renowned media theorist and author of a dozen best-selling books on media, technology and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Life Inc, and, most recently, Program or Be Programmed. He made the Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He teaches regularly at NYU and The New School
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Covering the 2012 Election Socially [Social Media Week Panel] #SMWNYC #SMWNYT #Election2012
Summary of a Social Media Week NYC panel on how social media is changing the way politics are being reported on, especially during this election cycle.
[Social Media Week Panel] The Global Campus: Will Colleges Survive? #SMWReuters #SMWNYC #SMWFutureClassroom
This is a summary of a an interview held as part of Social Media Week NYC. Description: Education is one of the remaining industries yet to be disrupted by the internet. American colleges and universities are considered to be at the forefront of global higher education. However with rising costs, globalization and new technologies, can
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[Social Media Week Panel] The Classroom of the Future: How Social Media Can Better Our Education System #SMWReuters #SMWNYC #SMWFutureClassroom
Summary of a panel discussion on how digital technologies are shaping education.
9 Ways Students Can Use Social Media to Boost Their Careers [Mashable Post]
I wrote a piece on Mashable yesterday on how students can think about and use social media professionally as they’re preparing themselves for the real world…. If you’re a Generation X-er or older, you likely use social media to cut it in the real world. You may also use social networks for personal reasons, but
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