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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture. The first lecture I heard as a freshman at Caltech was delivered by Feynman on the topic of liquid helium three, and I was certain he did understand the topic! That’s the Caltech advantage!

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My biggest concern about OERs has been that few people developing them have been measuring the impact: they celebrate the creation of the open content textbook or coursework, but don't collect the information on whether anybody is using them. The biggest turnout was one thousand students for my lecture to engineering and business students.

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Interview: Colin Rhinesmith, CCTV Cambridge

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to connect with Colin Rhinesmith , Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Adjunct Lecturer for the Media and Culture Program at Bentley University. Many seniors also prefer to use social media with people they already know.

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Best of the Decade for Museums

Museum 2.0

I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Meg Winikates (@mwinikates) December 2, 2019 Museums also looked for people where they are and how they are, rather than asking people to just receive what the museum wanted to offer.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it I resisted using the title of “report card”. Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. Previously, On NMC….

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The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries. When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable.

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