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 sphere ranging from Beth Kanter’s social media fundraising for Cambodian orphans to our own collaborative global effort with The Age of Conversation co-authors to benefit Variety the … [Read more...]
Socially Responsible Picture Books: Dream Village Part 2
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 4YG, Africa, Amy-Jussel, AOC3, Ashoka Youth Ventures, Beth-Kanter, books, Build A Bear, business plan, cambodian orphans, children's books, DEMO, Demo 2009 winner, digital learning, Do Something, Dream Village, eco moms, education, edutainment, entrepreneur, Four Years Go, Ideablob, ideation, kidlit, literature, Media and social change, NextNow Collaboratory, philanthropy, picture books, PlayPumps International, Saved by the Well, seeding, social enterprise, socially responsible, solutions, startups, Suneet Bahtt, Suneet Bhatt, Sustainability, The Age of Conversation, thought leaders, Variety the Children's Charity, VC funding, World's Greatest Pillowfight, youth voices
Celebrity Star Power To Benefit Urban Battlefields
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 you’re not the one chirping. When I see Twitter’s instantaneous ability to get the word out, whether it’s Sting flying in to perform at Narada Michael Walden’s superstar … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, americas giving challenge, Beth-Kanter, cambodian orphans, Christopher Rodriguez, concerts, earl klugh, Let the Sunshine In, meditation, memorial day, Narada Michael Walden, Narada Michael Walden Foundation, paralysis, S. Neil Vineberg, social-media, sri chinmoy, Sting, tickets, Twitter, urban battlefields, Vineberg Communications