#140conf
clock | April 29, 2010Alice Wilder (@alicewilder) - Psychologist and maker of Kidos, Blues Clues, Super Why and Think It Ink It
Beth Blecherman (@techmama) - Cofounder of SiliconValleyMoms and Editor CoolMomTech
Maya Bisineer (@thinkmaya) - founder of @memetales
Stephanie Aaronson (@SAGalluch) - Senior Director, PBS Kids Communications:
clock | April 29, 2010Marc Sirkin (@autismspeaks) - Chief Community Officer, Autism Speaks
Ray Chambers (@Malaria_Envoy) - The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria
Stefanie Michaels (@adventuregirl) - Travel Expert:
clock | April 28, 2010Andy Dixon (@andydixn) - ex-convict with convictions stopping cycle generational incarceration, spent 27 years in prison.
twittterer/singer/songwriter/author Geo Geller (@geogeller) - Artist, Photographer, Humanitarian
clock | April 28, 2010Don Lafferty (@donlafferty) - Writer, Story Teller, and Social media Marketing Consultant
Imal Wagner (@imalwagner) - PR for 140 conf & Jeff Pulver
John Kremer (@JohnKremer) - Author, 1,001 Ways to Market Your Books
Michael Tasner (@tazsolutions) - Author, Marketing in the Moment 3.0 Marketing
Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) - Author, The Four Hour Work Week
clock | April 27, 2010FakeJerry Paffendorf (@WELLO) - Artist, futurist, entrepreneur. joshua fouts (@josholalia) - Cultural relations futurist at the crossroads of emergent media, digital diplomacy, games, virtual worlds and storytelling.
Rita J. King (@RitaJKing) - Innovator-in-Residence, IBM Analytics Virtual Center, #SmarterWork project.
Tish Shute (@TishShute) - Transmedia Producer and enthusiast for our networked potential to make a better world.
clock | April 26, 2010I first saw Hashtag Art (on Twitter) at #140conf last week. These guys start with a picture, as a canvass. Then, as people tweet using a particular hashtag, their avatars become pieces of the mosaic, gradually building the image as event is happening. It took about two days, the duration of the meeting, to fill the entire image up.
The image, as it was slowly developing, was occasionally projected on the screen behind the speakers. The Hashtag Art guys were also set up in the side room (where coffee and power-strips were), projecting the image onto a screen.
When I approached them and they…
clock | April 25, 2010David Carr (@carr2n) - Writes Media Equation column, blogs @ Decoder & covers pop culture at NY Times:
clock | April 25, 2010Ann Curry (@AnnCurry) News Anchor on NBC's Today Show and host of Dateline NBC
Also watch her backstage interview:
clock | April 24, 2010Andy Carvin (@acarvin) - Senior strategist at NPR;
Eric Kuhn (@CNN) - Audience Interaction Producer, CNN;
Jennifer Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) - Social-Media Editor of The New York Times;
Ryan Osborn (@todayshow) - Producer, NBC's TODAY:
clock | April 24, 2010As you probably know, The Bride of Coturnix and I went to NYC last week to attend the 140conference organized by Jeff Pulver who I finally had a pleasure to meet in person.
The speaker line-up and the program schedule had to be slightly modified as a few people got stuck in Europe under the volcanic ash and could not come in time. But there were plenty of smart people in attendance who could readily jump in and join the panels in their place.
There were a total of about 1000 people the first day and only slightly fewer on the second day. There were only a handful people there who I've met…
clock | April 23, 2010This week in NYC, at #140 conf, I was most impressed by the talks and panels about education, and the use of online technologies, Web, and particularly social networks like Twitter in the classroom. You know I am interested in this - just search my blog for names like "David Warlick" and "Stacy Baker", or dig through my "Education" and "Science Education" categories. These videos are all short - 10 or 20 minutes long, so I strongly recommend you watch all four clips:
Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann) - Social Media + Education:
Real Time Communication and Education: Aparna Vashisht (@Parentella…
clock | April 23, 2010Angela Shelton (@angelashelton), an Asheville NC native, gave a powerful talk at the 140conf in NYC this week:
clock | April 22, 2010In this talk, Jeff references his TEDx talk and a couple of his recent blog posts: The problem with comments isn't them and News(paper) in the cloud:
clock | April 18, 2010The Bride Of Coturnix and I are flying to NYC early tomorrow morning and leaving Thursday afternoon. While we set Monday and Thursday to be "for us", we are flexible if anyone wants to meet for coffee or lunch - just let me know and we can arrange something. We plan to meet with my brother late Monday night for dinner or drinks (depending how timely is his flight in) but we can meet earlier.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will attend the 140 Characters Conference organized by Jeff Pulver:
At #140conf NYC we will be taking a hard look at something Jeff Pulver calls "The State of NOW" and the…