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Visual Note-Taking 101

Austin Kleon, Sunni Brown, Mike Rohde and Dave Gray like to draw, and they like to share information.  They combine their passions into something called visual note-taking.  Some might find visual note-taking daunting, but these four break it down to make it not so scary.  And in typical visual note-taker fashion, the session was mostly […]

Social Search: A Little Help From My Friends

Brynn Evans, Max Ventilla, Marc Vermut, Scott  Prindle and Ash Rust participated in the panel, “Social Search:  A Little Help from My Friends.”  The session started off with each panelists giving a little background information about their particular area of expertise in social searching.  The panelists threw out phrases such as ‘gathering trends from a […]

The Art and Science of Seductive Interactions

Stephen Anderson gave an initial disclaimer when beginning his session, “The Art and Science of Seductive Interactions.”  His background is in design, so his education in the actual ‘science’ part is minimal.  He said he focuses on the art of seductive interactions, but that science does play an integral part (i.e. psychology, linguistics, neuroscience) in […]

Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change

Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, David Neff, Holly Ross, Kari Saratovsky all work for various nonprofit organizations that have an overall goal of fostering social change for social good.  The panelists “crowd sourced” different people to find out exactly how nonprofit organizations are using social media.  Kanter described crowd sourcing as “Getting ideas, content or […]

Influence and Innovate:  Transforming Media Education

Cindy Royal, Tyson Evans and Matt Waite all have backgrounds that one wouldn’t think would lead them to new media.  Today, all three are in professions that are transforming the world of communication.  The mission of this panel was to discuss what future communication professionals need to know, and how to teach it to them. […]

Story.Next--Narrating the Crowd

Dr. Sanjay Gupta and his brother Suneel Gupta started the Kahani Movement with the hope of uncovering the stories that aren’t usually told.  The brothers’ mission was to document the lives of people that had immigrated to the United States from India.  They wanted to chronicle the hardships, the discoveries and the joys these people […]