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Eric Mortensen, blip.tv |
Megaphones for Midgets
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They say everyone's the same height on the web - but is it true? In a world dominated by corporations, can creators turn a web following into a living? This panel also asks how creators can transition from a niche product to the corporate world - and whether they should even try.
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Joanne Bamberger (PunditMom), Political commentator |
Building Political Clout Online Through Technology
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How can women increase their political clout and influence online? There are more ways than you think to be active and promote political positions, advocate issues and build influence in the blogosphere. Thia panel will teach you how to use tech for politics.
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Lainie Duro, Skillpoint Alliance |
Digital Inclusion: The State of the Divide
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Shortly after the Bush administration took office, the digital divide was declared officially bridged. However, there is still a significant segment of the population who are being excluded from all aspects of technology, from end-user to development, due to technical illiteracy. This panel will seek to discuss this issue and the impact on individuals and society as a whole.
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Brian Yeung, Microsoft |
Taking Responsibility for the Quality of Your Life
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How can we live so that things that drive us to be great don't have to make us miserable every step of the way, and that the way in which we make great things can also make us happy in and of itself? This talk will discuss ways to think about goals, personal
expectations, and boundaries, and how to take control of your own personal happiness.
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Rebecca Fox, mediabistro.com |
Why Is Professional Blogging Bloodsport for Women?
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Does blogging about your life necessarily ruin it? For professional female bloggers, writing online often gets painfully personal. This panel explores repercussions for women who offer readers online insights into their lives, whether men who write online are equally maligned, and how to improve the online atmosphere for all.
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Chad Crouch, Cre8tive Group |
What's Your Return on Pro Bono?
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How to invest in the work you love without sacrificing business integrity.
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Diana Harrelson Martin, Cyber-Anthro.com |
Cyber Anthropology - Understanding Culture Online and Online Culture
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Online culture is becoming ever pervasive in its effects on the offline world. This panel will bring attention to the study of online culture and its purpose, use and effectiveness. Topics covered will be the internet's influence on gaming, community, education, media, marketing, politics, and family.
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Liz Henry, BlogHer |
Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD
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Gear and software for people with disabilities is usually provided through charity or from medical supply companies. It's hard or impossible to repair it, or get anyone to repair it. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools! With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.
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Fred Benenson, Creative Commons |
Non-Profit Technology Work: How You Can Do Good
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Do startup phrases like "exit strategy" and "vested options" turn you off from working in the tech world? Ever wonder if there's a higher good you could be serving with your tech skills? Come for some quick presentations from some of the hottest tech non-profits and a discussion about the perks, achievements and challenges you can look forward to.
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Paul Gelb, Avenue A | Razorfish |
Do Media Brands Matter Anymore?
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Web 2.0 has made distribution more important than destination. Content is infinitely portable. News and information are easy to share and adapt. Content from broadcast networks appears legally on hundreds of sites. So do CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX matter anymore? What about ESPN, New York Times and Wall Street Journal?
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Amy Senger, MSHC Partners |
Spying 2.0: Can America Compete With Web-Savvy Enemies?
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Accelerating technology cycles leave the US intelligence community gasping. Twitter, cloud computing, folksonomies, Loopt... can America's sclerotic intelligence machinery compete as our enemies adopt cheap, fast-evolving open-source and web 2.0 intel strategies?
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Sally (@BizGirl) Strebel, BestPartyEver.com |
Climbing the Corporate Ladder in a Mini Skirt
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Powerful tech women share their secrets regarding kicking ass, moving up the ladder, dealing with jerks, and helping other girls reach the top.
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Julie Barko Germany, GWU's Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet |
Political Leadership in the Digital Era
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The digital era requires a new type of leadership. An interactive conversation between past and present elected officials and the audience on political leadership in the digital era.
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Joyce Schwarz, Author, Visioneering coach |
I Have A Vision, Do You?
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Visioning your future-- hotter than brainstorming, more powerful than meditation, left & right brain Create your vision for game, product,family, relationship, film, non-profit charity IN THIS SESSION. Tweek defining images into collage of new reality!
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Jason Schultz, UC Berkeley School of Law |
User-Interpreted TOSes: Who Defines the Fine Print?
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TOS are boring legal gibberish meant for company CYA. But users often look to them to define right and wrong. Come learn to walk the tightrope between letting the community lead versus keep the crazies at bay; plus TOS vs. community guidelines, and legal vs. ethical rules for community building.
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William Brent, Mrcleantech.com |
"Living Buildings": The Coming Zero Energy/Waste, Affordable Structure
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Buildings are far more harmful to the environment than cars, but they get far less attention. We live on the cusp of a new revolution: buildings that are zero net energy, zero net cost, self-contained waste cycles, and technology & materials that are cradle to cradle. This panel is a glimpse with the key thought leaders.
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Mike O'Brien, iMentor |
Networking the World the Mentoring Way
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We’re all becoming experts on connecting people, but how are they really connected? Technology is facilitating mentoring and relationships, and these relationships are flourishing online. Panelists will offer differing viewpoints on the use of technology in the mentoring space, from using closed educational networks to industry standard email exchanges.
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Karen Kreps, Net Ingenuity Publishing |
Sex Ed Online: How Teens Self Savvy
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Creators of popular online teen sexuality content—including the Midwest Teen Sex Show and Scarleteen.com—community educators, scholars and advocates discuss teenagers, sex, and the Internet. Content developers, parents and teens: Bring your questions, fears and hopes. We'll answer generational quandaries. Sexy prizes for the best questions.
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David Schlossberg, themeat.org |
Internet Crack: Making an Addictive Website
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What makes certain websites incredibly addictive and others incredibly boring? We'll go over some of the social, psychological, and other factors that get people hooked on your website along with examples of sites who do this successfully (and not so successfully).
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Todd Moy, Capstrat |
Love in the Cloud: Online-Only Marriages
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Could two people really share a life without ever meeting in meatspace? We discuss how online-only marriages could work. What current assumptions and apprehensions will seem quaint tomorrow? What are the barriers, and what answers will technology provide? In a world that is redefining marriage, is this the next logical step?
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Melanie Rosenthal, Sprigley |
Killing Us Softly: The Failure of Technology in Health Care
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It's a feature not a bug, health and well-being are social and communal while our technology in this space is sterile and mechanical. How do we bring health technology into our communities.
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Ruby Sinreich, lotusmedia & Fellowship of Reconciliation |
How Microformats Can Help Nonprofits Change the World
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Shared data standards, open source, Creative Commons, and portability seem like lofty ideals, but how practical are they - especially for the typical nonprofit with little or no technology budget? We will hear nonprofit and geek perspectives on how these tools can help (or hinder) the good work of nonprofit organizations.
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Shawn O'Connor, Timepedia.org |
Powers of Often: Powers of Ten in Time
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In 1977, Charles & Ray Eames made a fascinating short film, Powers of Ten, showing the relative scales in the universe: from picnic, to city, to solar system, to galaxy, and so on, back to cells, molecules, and atomic nuclei.
In the same spirit, Powers of Often will explore relative scales in time using real data and hard estimates: patterns of daily life, demographics, census data, generations, long term trends, forecasts, historical cycles, high-frequency finance, and solar cycles.
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Evan Prodromou, Control Yourself, Inc. |
Autonomy in the Cloud
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We're moving many of our computing tasks and data storage to remote machines owned by someone else. It's convenient, but can users get the same control of software-as-a-service they get running Free/Open Source software on their own computers? Does it matter?
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Latoya Peterson, Racialicious |
Can Social Media End Racism?
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The tangled issues of race and privilege in our society come to a boiling point on the internet. Exploring the complicated place of race in society, this presentation examines the ideas of race in the digital environment with a specific focus on social media.
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Mel Kirk, Aardman Animations (previously Carsonified) |
Walking the Tech Runway in Stilettos
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A fun and lighthearted discussion that prepares females for greater success by helping them get comfortable in their own shoes. 5 panelists share the lessons learned on their journey toward success.
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Matthew Forrest, TwistDx |
DNA - Who Are You, Do You Really Wanna Know?
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With DNA sequencing following its own Moore's Law, having your own genome sequenced will soon be affordable. Companies will already screen you for a million common genetic variants. But, will it tell you anything useful -- and, if so, do you really want to know?
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Anatalio Ubalde, ZoomProspector.com |
The Real Estate Crisis - How to Thrive Online
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Can the new breed of online real estate search and analysis websites help buyers and sellers to survive and even thrive during the current real estate crisis? See how technology is shaping how data and UGC driven real estate engines are freeing property information and cutting through the current mess.
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Joseph Lopez, Austin 3.0 and UT ActLab |
Geek 3.0
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Discussion on the evolution of interdisciplinary, go getting, geeks who are out on the streets causing new types of mayhem with their open source attitudes and counter culture tendencies, as well as non-corporate corporate venture attitudes; and how they are changing communities one locale at a time.
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George Kelly, Bay Area News Group-East Bay |
Rules for Radicals: Strategic Interventions vs. New Media
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Panel members will offer expert testimony and informed forecasting on the intersection of media, organizing and technology for use from the stakeholder level down to loosely joined parties and passers-by.
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