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Selfies for Good?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

His writings and photographs have been published in print and online with the BBC , Guardian , Adbusters , the Sarai Reader , Glimpse Magazine , Next American City , Focus on the Global South , Alternet , and Grist. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC. also blogs for the Huffington Post.

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TechSoup joins the #ALSIceBucketChallenge

Tech Soup

If you haven't been on Facebook, Twitter, and even mainstream media like CNN in the past couple of weeks, it's the viral sensation where an individual, upon challenged by a friend online, douses themselves with ice and/or water on camera.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

His writings and photographs have been published in print and online with the BBC , Guardian , Adbusters , the Sarai Reader , Glimpse Magazine , Next American City , Focus on the Global South , Alternet and Grist. Aaron Bramley - Lights Camera Help. Aaron Bramley is the Co-founder and Director of Communication/Education for Lights.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

Drones equipped with infrared cameras enable farmers to quickly see where plants are blighted. Foreign Policy magazine's Predators for Peace Drones is a short history of humanitarian drones. Precision agriculture is one of the fastest areas of growth for civilian drone technology. Drones and Privacy. In the U.S.,

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City.

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The Eye of the Beholder

Museum 2.0

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Usually this blog is more about analysis than links. But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. The Post set up a hidden camera to watch the action.

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