Finally Getting into Video I bought a video camera off of a guy whom I met via criagslist.org last year with intent to start sharing my adventures with a larger audience. I hope to utilize the user-generated, on-demand video services…
Inspiration Board I’m reading Daniel Pink’s: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future for my Creativity and Right Livelihood class this semester. This week we had to read Chapter 6 – Symphony and do one of the…
Canadians: Let’s Adopt a 100 Litre Challenge I awoke this morning with the idea of a 100 Litre Challenge. It looks like the memes driving me successfully mutated 🙂 (see my last post). James and Alisa added to the popularization…
Who is Driving, Humans or Memes? I had to watch Susan Blackmore’s TED talk on Memetics today for my social web class. Prior to the class I didn’t even know what memetics was. Susan defines them as: “that which is…
Regenerative Community Development My terminology on the subject of community development has evolved a little since my first post on the topic. Since beginning at BGI and increasingly so, I’ve had the sense that “sustainable” is not a high enough…
Social Web: To Twitter or Not My social web class is holding my feet to the technological fire. Part of this week’s discussion is about Twitter. I signed up months ago but have so far continued to lurk, having not…
The Social Web and the Importance of Weak Ties In social web class this week I learned about the distinction of strong and weak ties. Strong ties are those in our inner circle of friends and family who we have…
Reflections on Intensive I: The Social Web and Privacy Last weekend was my first intensive of the year at BGI. I decided to join the Social Web for Social Change class with the intent to become more skillful at using…
Community Resilience As part of my social web for social change class at BGI I get to choose a topic and research it during the semester using the tools we are learning about in class. Since my team marketing plan…