Join the Obama Admin discussion about health care
Change.gov is the website set up by the “Office of the President Elect” to get citizen input about all the issues facing the Obama administration. One of them is what should be done about the health care system. You can put in your two-cents-worth (an old expression) by going to: http://change.gov/page/s/healthcare
Here’s their invitation:
Health Care — Of the People, By the People
Tell us your story, why health care is important to you, or what you’d like to see an Obama-Biden administration do and where you’d like the country to go.
It’s significant to me that Obama seems pretty committed to maintaining a dialog through internet forums.
Pop! Tech Starts Today
My favorite technology conference starts today and you can attend it too. Pop! Tech is a conference held each October in beautiful Camden, Maine. I had the pleasure of attending in 2006 and I not only enjoyed it, I benefitted from it as well.
The theme this year is Scarcity and Abundance. Speakers include Malcolm Gladwell, and Chris Anderson.
Unfortunately, the registration price has gone up and the budget has gone down. So, this year I’ll be watching the live feed, and perhaps participating in the Q and A as well. I’ll be connecting my laptop to my big screen TV to maximize my viewing experience.
Check out the schedule below.
Wednesday October 22, 2008
Wednesday Sessions registration is now closed.
| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | The Wealth of Networks Valdis Krebs |
| Reading the Language of Nonverbal Communication Joe Navarro |
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| The Perfect Pairing of Taste and Scent Chandler Burr Melissa Kelly |
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| Scaling the Pyramid Bunker Roy Paul Polak |
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| Your Personal Energy Audit Saul Griffith James McBride |
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| The Logophile’s Boot Camp Erin McKean |
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| Oceans in the Balance Carl Safina |
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| Making Fun Gever Tulley |
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Thursday October 23, 2008
| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Scarcity & Abundance |
| Speakers: | Andrew Zolli Saul Griffith Carl Safina |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Extraordinary Impacts |
| Fellow: | Kushal Chakrabarti |
| Speakers: | Malcolm Gladwell Peter Whybrow David Harrison Paul Polak |
| Performer: | Imogen Heap |
| 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Sustainable Visions |
| Speakers: | Dickson Despommier Pamela Ronald John Priscu |
| Performer: | Rufus Cappadocia |
| 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Break |
| 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM | The Expressive Instinct |
| Speakers: | Marian Bantjes Chandler Burr Benjamin Zander |
Friday October 24, 2008
| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Digital Freedoms |
| Fellow: | Heather Fleming |
| Speakers: | Clay Shirky Matt Mason Chris Anderson |
| 5 Minute Speaker: | Erin McKean |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Project Masiluleke |
| Fellow: | Ken Banks |
| Speakers: | Leetha Filderman Zinny Thabethe Gustav Praekelt Robert Fabricant |
| 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Pathways to Peace |
| Fellow: | Eric Dawson |
| Speakers: | Gary Slutkin Laura Waters Hinson |
| Performer: | Amos Lee |
| 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Not your ordinary Ice Cream Social |
| 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM | The Edge of Medicine |
| Fellows: | N. Taylor Thompson & Nathan Sigworth Priti Radhakrishnan |
| Speakers: | Jay Parkinson Stephen Badylak |
| Special Session | |
| Speakers: | Juan Enriquez Van Jones |
Saturday October 25, 2008
| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Sensing Pandemics |
| Fellows: | Erik Hersman Melanie Edwards |
| Speakers: | Laurie Garrett Ian Lipkin |
| Performer: | David Rakoff |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Game Change |
| Fellows: | Tevis Howard Tshewang Dendup |
| Speakers: | Kelly Dobson Suzanne Seggerman |
| 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | The Body Politic |
| Fellow: | Nam Mokwunye |
| Speakers: | George Lakoff Bill Bishop Valdis Krebs |
| Performer: | Abdominal |
| 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Siesta |
| 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM | Secrets & Lies |
| Fellows: | Chip Ransler & Manoj Sinha |
| Speakers: | Joe Navarro Frank Warren Lincoln Schatz |
| Performer: | Rufus Cappodocia |
Social Media for Nonprofits: Getting the Word Out in the New Information Age
Went to a great conference last week here in Austin where I spoke on Social Media for Social Good. Instead of me doing a re-cap here is a radass post from Tim Wilson that sums it all up sweetness style. Enjoy!
Last week, I had the privilege of moderating a panel on “Social Media: Getting the Word Out in the New Information Age” at the 2008 Crossroads Conference for Nonprofit Excellence in Austin. The panel came about largely, I think, because I pestered the Marketing and Development Director (aka…my sister) for much of the prior year about the fact that she was not using social media actively in her own work. That fed into one of Greenlights’s internal planning sessions for the conference…which led to them asking me to help put together and moderate a panel on the subject. Greenlights found the panelists, and it was a bang-up group:
- Heidi Adams — Founder and Executive Director of Planet Cancer, which has gotten real traction and success with My Planet (a Ning-based social network for young adults who have been diagnosed with cancer)
- Connie Reece — Founder of Every Dot Connects, a consortium of independent social media practitioners and consultants…who also just so happened to have founded the Frozen Pea Fund
- David Neff — Director of Web, Film and Interactive Strategy for the American Cancer Society; he’s one of the key drivers behind sharinghope.tv
Anne Rickard at Greenlights set up a WordPress blog, and I got to be one of the first to post on it (we chatted at the happy hour after the conference, and she’s now pondering how to turn the “Crazy for Crossroads” blog into more of an on-going Greenlights blog — I’m hoping they’re successful with that!).
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