Civic Social Media – Fixcity.org PARK(ing) Day Video

By On January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

“We now have all these powerful social technologies that instead of using them for entertainment purposes we can use them for civic purposes.”

Been thinking about my product design work on mass collaboration and ongoing sustainability of peoples’ participation. The short video below on PARK(ing) Day includes nice shots of the fixcity.org site [...]

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Follow… Me – Nationalism Diminishes In The Global Human Net

By On August 12, 2009 · 2 Comments

Tim O’Reilly said the following about Obama’s use of social media in a recent Q&A on one of IBM’s business marketing sites.

“Clearly there are some new channels for outreach and new channels for listening to what people are telling you. Barack Obama built a really effective platform with mybarackobama.com—and it is really important [...]

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