Jan.1, 2010 Happy New Year! This joyous photo of youthful exuberance is Bryn Kressin, at left; one of our Shaping Youth winners of yesterday’s Packaging Boyhood book drawing where we pulled names from those who commented or tweeted about our weekly posts about boys, manhood and media messages impacting the males we love. The other two winners were author/educator Dr. Liz … [Read more...]
May 31, 2009 I know our friends at HopeLab have been active on Twitter and their own Facebook group and use SlideShare and all that, but as I’ve said many a time, microblogging and 140 character sound bites don’t quite get into the ‘deep dive’ I’m seeking when it comes to solutions-based thinking. Richard Tate has just announced HopeLab’s new “Sticky Notes” blog which will … [Read more...]
Program for the Future Conference: Double-click to enlarge Eileen Clegg's visual insights into the years beginning with Doug Engelbart's birth in 1925 and emerging through his 'mother of all demos' in 1968 as we time travel to track the evolution and convergence of collective intelligence via human and techno systems... Where have we been, where are we going, what will this … [Read more...]
When I was asked to present a workshop with all the powerhouse thought leaders and academic bigwigs this past spring at the 6th annual CCFC summit: Consuming Kids: The Sexualization of Children and Other Commercial Calamities, I had one of those insecure twitches of humbled reticence. How would my lack of PhD pedigree stand up in a room full of whip-smart scholars and … [Read more...]
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