Redesigning the Connected Community at P.O.V. Interactive
For the past twenty years, P.O.V. has presented groundbreaking documentary films on PBS, working with filmmakers both emerging and...
Read MoreTechnology Facilitates Community-Media Convergence
Broadly speaking, “community” can mean a locality, a school, a vocation, even an entire ethnic group or religion – any group bound by...
Read MoreGet a First Life
If you’ve been a little bemused or underwhelmed by the goings-on in Second Life (Swedish embassy, Reuters news bureau) this Get a...
Read MoreCan New Technologies Help Strengthen Relationships Worldwide?
Coming from the perspective of both a technology person working on international peace-building campaigns and a professor teaching a...
Read MoreWorld Economic Forum Webcast: Leveraging the Power of People
If you have some time, check out the webcast of Jan. 27th’s Web 2.0 session from the World Economic Forum, called “How Web 2.0...
Read MoreUniversity of Georgia: Linking “Connected” Communities
I’m not sure there’s a better-defined “community” than the members of a college or university. Student, faculty,...
Read MoreBlogging, Podcasting change lives in Belarus and Uzbekistan
The modern world powered by technology has drastically altered our traditional understanding of what a community is. However, in a shift...
Read MoreShould You Pay Your Community’s Contributors?
From The World Economic Forum comes the news that YouTube will start paying those who upload videos. First of all… at the World...
Read MoreCreating Stronger “Connected” Communities
In my opinion, a community in a connected world is a group of people who effect collective actions through active participation and...
Read MoreWii Have a Community
I find the phrase “citizen journalism” is in some cases far too weighty a label for the most interesting examples of the...
Read MoreYahoo Faces Competiton from Social Media
Yahoo was downgraded today by S&P to “sell” from “hold.” Why? Well, it just jumped 8%, but S&P believes...
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