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Three Fabulous Conversations

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Conversation Two I had agreed to act as a mentor to a Global Changemaker, in this case Mousa Mousawy, an Iraqi teenager now living in Jordan. Mousa and I talked about his dream of helping centers for blind people in Iraq get the tech equipment they need. What a great kick-off for a day! A veritable intellectual and social smorgasbord!

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Here's just on that's got me thinking: "We're now beginning to experience a shift from a global-objective index of needs and providers to a personal-subjective one." Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!)

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The Future Today: Empowering youth via social media

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. they hosted a cool “virtual Global Peace&# gathering inside their world to coincide w/last fall’s UN discussion of same: [link] )&# - from Amy at Shaping Youth. Youth Empowerment with Social Media. There are really just so many great examples for this topic.