A rockstar panel spoke at the AT&T Conference Center for South by Southwest Interactive on how social media is giving the presidential race a much needed makeover. Claudia Milne with BBC, Micah Sifry with Personal Democracy Media, Michael Scherer with Time Magazine, Teddy Goff and Zeynep Tufekci all gave compelling arguments for how candidates for the 2012 election are capitilizing […]
““We are about upgrading our humanity and our own freedom.” – Mark Belinsky Iphones, Twitter, Facebook and the like aren’t just for Americans wanting to talk about what bar to meet at or what celebrity said what anymore. Now this amazing technology has made its way into the hands of some of the most oppressed […]
Boyd Neil, a former political activist and trade unionist, spoke on the importance of utilizing the internet to help fuel social movements. Neil, a self-proclaimed “left-wing activist,” was arrested during a demonstration in Cananda on the one year anniversary of the War Measures Act, a “fascist” law (as he called it) that limited the freedom […]
“I am not a fan of being a customer of my government” – Luke Hohmann Luke Hohmann, CEO of The Innovation Games Company, creates games that corporations use to make better decisions when it comes to their budgets. Now he is bringing this same innovative and surpirsing approach to budget management from the corporate world […]
Inaugural SXSWedu Winners are LearningJar (HigherEd) and BloomBoard(K12). [View the story “LearningJar and BloomBoard LaunchEdu Winners” on Storify]
The role of social media has played an integral part all around the world, including Colombia. Partly due to drug trafficking, Columbia has been in a state of armed conflict since the 60’s, but since the 80’s the violence from drug trafficking has become much worse. In “Social Media in Colombia: An Agent for Change,” […]