Mar. 23, 2010 Today I was honored to be the guest speaker at SFSU Professor Betsy Blosser’s Media & Social Change class, and brought a gazillion examples of cool work being done in the digital … [Read more...]
Shaping Youth Sponsors She’s Geeky: Where WIT & Wisdom Flourish
January 25, 2010 by 11 Comments
Update Jan. 9, 2017 Coming up...Jan. 28, 2017 my favorite "unconference" convenes called "She's Geeky" which I've written about since its inception, with posts from 2007 and for years thereafter … [Read more...]
Final 48 Hours! Vote Girl Child Network’s Betty Makoni CNN Hero ’09!
November 17, 2009 by 12 Comments
Nov. 17, 2009 Last week, when the Guardian reported, “Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists,” I blinked back … [Read more...]
Do Those ‘Take Action’ Causes and AutoFill Forms Really Work?
August 25, 2009 by 5 Comments
August 25, 2009 Ever wonder if those urgent ‘act now' e-mails from your favorite causes work? Last week I received an NCLI eco-literacy action alert, as Shaping Youth is a member of the consortium … [Read more...]
Social Media ABC’s: An International Opportunity
June 23, 2009 by 9 Comments
June 23, 2009 Changeblogger and informal learning pro Jasmin Tragas, (also one of my fellow NextNow Collaboratory global gal pals and co-contributors to the Age of Conversation Gavin Heaton and Drew … [Read more...]
Celebrity Star Power To Benefit Urban Battlefields
May 24, 2009 by 6 Comments
May 24, 2009 See this “Tweet” at left? That’s the power of Twitter. Now get this…I’m not even ON Twitter. You heard right. No Twitter account. That means your content can be ‘tweeted’ even if … [Read more...]
Worldshapers: Women Wired to Make A Difference
May 24, 2009 by 5 Comments
May 24, 2009 Passionistas span the globe in all shapes, sizes and countries, and it makes me wonder sometimes if some of us are just ‘hard-wired’ with the 'want to make a difference' gene from the get … [Read more...]
Techno-Leaders Converge at She’s Geeky Jan. 30-31, 2009!
January 27, 2009 by 12 Comments
Jan. 27, 2009 Albert Einstein said,“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” At She’s Geeky last year, I met women who can give that hope for humanity back, … [Read more...]
Celebrate My Birthday By Helping Beth Kanter Celebrate Hers!
January 4, 2009 by 10 Comments
Visual Insight guru Eileen Clegg sent me this lovely card (at left) along with a sweet sentiment about “trips around the sun” prompting a recall of a kindergarten tradition I want to … [Read more...]
The Age of Conversation 2: A Tribe of 237 Leading Change
October 31, 2008 by 20 Comments
AOC2--Double the flavor, double the fun! (quick, name that ad!) The ever prolific Seth Godin of Purple Cow fame (yes, I’m proud to be one...moooo!) has a new book out called … [Read more...]
Young Innovators: Get Out of the Garage and Into the Marketplace!
September 5, 2008 by 9 Comments
Calling all social media wünderkind, changebloggers, and humanitarian twitterati and digerati of the millennial set (yes, this means you, Alex Steed) there’s ‘gold in them thar’ … [Read more...]
GovTweets: A Snapshot of Election Dialogue
August 31, 2008 by 7 Comments
Not that a ton of teens are tweeting on Twitter just yet, but if helpful hacks like GovTweets take hold, the PoliSci exam cram kids will be au courant in a micro-second with these little info … [Read more...]
Media Rules! Shaping Youth Interviews Brian Reich
June 30, 2008 by 2 Comments
We interrupt this series on product placement and new FCC media rules to add a very pertinent voice into the mix, digital dynamo Brian Reich, co-author with Dan Solomon of Media Rules! Brian Reich … [Read more...]
