During the last municipal election I had a rather disturbing conversation with one of the folks running for council. The gist of the conversation was that I believed that city hall, elected councillors and city staff could do a way better job of engaging, informing, inviting and generally including constituents in local initiatives, decisions and plans. His suggestion was that [...]
Tags: government, politics, TED, video
Posted by jamie on February 12, 2012 in
Communication,
social media,
Technology |
∞ This classic McLuhan clip predicted so much of what we’re seeing now. McLuhan enters the video at the 2:45 minute mark and suggests that there is a difference between book readers and those who were at that time embracing the “new” media of radio, television and movies. He uses the term being “with it”. He [...]
Tags: McLuhan, video
Posted by jamie on September 29, 2011 in
non-profit,
social media,
Technology,
WebTools |
∞ A few months ago I played around with a fun little video app call Google Search Story Creator. Since then it seems to have changed how it works but the original short stories created are still available on YouTube. Their temporary story creator is here and they have a notice suggesting that this app will change [...]
Tags: free, fun, tools, video
Posted by jamie on May 28, 2011 in
EdTechTools,
Technology,
WebTools |
∞ This is quite brilliant, fun and quick.. which means many, many people and companies will use it. I suspect the glow will wear thin for corporate use after a bit but should prove more long wearing in education and just plain fun. I can see a marriage proposal or two being done using this.. I didn’t say [...]
Tags: fun, Google, tools, video
Posted by jamie on December 11, 2010 in
Communication,
non-profit,
social media |
∞ The use and possible misuse of social media is perhaps one of the biggest issues in the non-profits world right now. I was going to do a post about the pro’s, con’s and suggested policies but then I found this totally awesome blog and video by Timo Luege, who describes himself as ” among other things I’m “the social [...]
Tags: communication, participatory, policy, social media, video
