Viteracy Redux
Our friend Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, has often referred to the importance of “viteracy” — a word he coined to mean “video literacy” — in the current social media...
View ArticleThe State of “Now”
I write these posts in advance of the class for next week. I’m hoping next week’s break will look more like the picture for many of you. But the week AFTER break is about the state of now. The mobile,...
View ArticleMobile Game-changers
“Always on, always there” mobile devices that can connect people to things happening “right now”—or that can help people to make things happen right now, wherever—are upending our notions of...
View ArticleCan you lead an online community?
Next week’s topic will be online community management. “To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise....
View ArticleGlobal Mobile: UNICEF Breaks New Ground
As Christopher Fabian, our guest in last week’s class made clear, the mobile phone is doing more than revolutionizing communication. His innovation team over at UNICEF also is inventing ways the...
View ArticleExperience Advocacy and Games For Change
Class next week will talk about experience advocacy. We all tend to feel more strongly about a cause when we can discuss personal experience with it. It is hard to ignore a homeless person if you’ve...
View Article#wnpNYU Links: All About Community
Photo by Prof. Greenstein Yesterday, the Wired Nonprofit visited the headquarters of the Huffington Post, not far from our normal 12th Street digs and we were the guests of Tim McDonald, Community...
View ArticleVideo Advice: Mark Horvath
Eddie, an interview by Mark Horvath For my Sunday blog post slot, I’m turning things over to Mark Horvath, your class guest this coming week. He’s the founder of InvisiblePeople.tv, whose mission is...
View ArticleDon’t be afraid of the Dark Side – of Social Media
Do we really know the power of the dark side? Next week’s class is about the challenges, failures and public relations nightmares that come with being online. Some organizations are duly chastised, and...
View ArticleThe Home Stretch – Knock Down the Silos
As we start to get to the end of the class, a little preview of this week’s “Dark Side of Social Media” bonus article: Facebook Can Connect Your Online and Offline purchases. When it comes to silos,...
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