This is a spectacular presentation from Clay Shirky at last month's Web 2.0 Expo. He makes a compelling argument that the time-sucking power of television has masked a huge pool of creative and collaborative energy out there... and that social media are all about unleashing that energy – at TV's expense:
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Clay Shirky on social media: "I can do that, too!"
by Rob Cottingham – May 7, 2008 - 3:15pmFlock: a deserving Webby winner, and a ground-breaking browser
by Rob Cottingham – May 7, 2008 - 12:03pm
Well, if ChangeEverything.ca was going to lose in the Webby race, it couldn't have been to a more worthy contender than Flock.
Thank you, ChangeEverything supporters!
by Rob Cottingham – May 7, 2008 - 12:02pmWe just wanted to say a big "thank you" to all of our friends out there who headed over to the Webby Awards People's Voice site and voted for Vancity's Change Everything.
Social Tech Training: Toronto, June 22-24
by Rob Cottingham – May 2, 2008 - 12:43pm
For a lot of organizations, grasping the potential of social media is a big step... but actually implementing it is even bigger. How do you bridge the chasm between "You know what we should do?" and "So how do we do it?"
Every Human Has Rights makes human rights personal
by Alexandra Samuel – April 23, 2008 - 12:53amFor the past two months, I've been part of the digital strategy team for The Elders, an extraordinary NGO that was launched last year by Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel. The vision is to convene a council of elders for the global village; the founding elders include Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mary Robinson and Kofi Annan.
As part of this work, I've been supporting the web team for Every Human Has Rights, a campaign to spread awareness and support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year is the sixtieth anniversary of UDHR, and being part of its celebration is a wonderful echo of one of the first pieces of work I did as a grad student at Harvard, thirteen years ago. (Ouch!) At that time I was a research assistant for Andrew Moravcsik, helping him research an article on international human rights regimes (PDF) that he published in time to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the UDHR.
How your non-profit can earn revenue with Web 2.0: Part 5 - Product sales
by Alexandra Samuel – April 22, 2008 - 9:47pmThis blog post is part of our series on Social Media for Social Enterprise: How non-profits can earn revenue with Web 2.0.
At happyfrog.ca, blogging is an EPIC undertaking
by Rob Cottingham – April 18, 2008 - 2:24pm
If you're in Vancouver this weekend, you'll want to drop by the Globe Foundation's EPIC: The Sustainable Living Expo: three days of exhibits and events geared to people who want to live healthier, more sustainable lives.
Friends of the show, doing cool things
by Rob Cottingham – April 17, 2008 - 4:02pmIn the hubbub of our various projects, we've let two three interesting developments in our local social media scene slip by unremarked. And that's doubly unfortunate because they involve friends. (In our defence, we seem to have the kind of friends who are always up to amazing things.)
ChangeEverything.ca gets a Webby nomination... and some big-league peers
by Alexandra Samuel and Rob Cottingham – April 15, 2008 - 3:09pmChangeEverything.ca, the online community we conceived and built for Vancity, has been nominated for a Webby Award.
13 keys to a good panel
by Rob Cottingham – April 2, 2008 - 5:25pmI've been very lucky with panel discussions: I've never been on a dud. I hear the horror stories (and I've witnessed them from the audience): moderators who can't read the room, panelists who run way long and pitch their company relentlessly, and chemistry that just doesn't work.
