BGI Using the Social Web for Social Change Post Mortem The semester is over and we’ve been asked to reflect on what elements of the course worked and what could use a different approach. Here is my download:
How (not) To Build a Team I realized this semester that many of my ideals and ideas are often ahead of the curve of where many people are at. In the past I’ve operated as a solo entrepreneur so it…
Copyright and Fair Use This week’s Using the Social Web for Social Change class at BGI had my classmates and I digging into legal stuff concerning: copyright, patents, trademarks and fair use. Many of my classmates are working on videos…
Social Web: Google Wave My friend Bob just hooked me up with a Google Wave account. After watching a few intro videos it looks like it will be a really powerful, real-time collaboration tool that allows you to mix text,…
Social Web: How to Influence People My social web class had to watch a 15 minute video by Robert Cialdini called How to Influence Others this week. It is basically about getting people to say yes. Like all skills, the…
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…
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…
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…