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Title:

Can Social Media Change Global Consciousness?

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Organizer:
Mark Lovett, Global Patriot
Description:
We know that social media has wired the globe for friend lists, business connections, and supporting social causes, but can it do more? Can social media create a permanent shift in global consciousness, one that will change the way we all think and live?
Questions
Answered:
  1. Social media campaigns have benefited millions through charitable donations, but can these campaigns change how people think and act in the long term?
  2. With the ease of promoting social causes across multiple social media platforms, how do we avoid inundating the public with requests and diluting the intended effect?
  3. Is today’s implementation of social media sufficient to cause a shift in consciousness, or will broader adoption in the developing world be required first?
  4. Are all social media platforms equally effective in causing change, or does one platform hold an advantage?
  5. Are the various platforms battling for mindshare, or can they be synergistic and actually cause change to occur at a faster pace?
  6. With so many great causes and people using social media for good, is it time to create a single body that everyone can work under to maximize awareness and create long-term change for charities and support?
  7. Thoughtful arguments have been made that social media may actually be dehumanizing and lead to the "end of empathy". Is that theory true, and if so, how can we avoid it?
  8. We witnessed a change in consciousness due to the civil rights marches, how can social media replicate that effect?
  9. Do certain types of causes – hunger, poverty, equal rights – benefit more than others from the use of social media?
  10. What sort of new social media platform would be more effective is causing a change in consciousness throughout the world?
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Community / Online Community, Education, International, Social Issues, Social Networking
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Mark Lovett
on 17/8/09
To address this most timely and thought provoking topic, the following leaders in social media, nonprofits and sustainability have agreed to serve as panelists:

Amy Sample Ward - netsquared.org
Danielle Brigida - nwf.org
Danny Brown - 12for12k.org
John Haydon - johnhaydon.com
Rob Reed - maxgladwell.com
Stacey Monk - epicchange.org

This promises to be an exciting session - thanks for your support!
Nick Cobb
on 19/8/09
Danielle knows her stuff... both social media and environmental.
Brian Reich
on 20/8/09
Super important topic, and a smart group of people -- I hope they focus on the origins or social change and how technology and the internet/social media power it, and not as much on the idea of whether Facebook, a tool, actually results in change. But these folks know that, so its a good discussion to have with them.
Mary Anne Davis
on 20/8/09
Nice work organizing this panel, Mark. Looks like the roll up your sleeves panels are making a strong show this year.
Allyson Kapin
on 21/8/09
Great topic! Looking forward to seeing it at SXSW!
Bryna Jones
on 21/8/09
This is such a great panel! I do PR for a burgeoning non-profit called Streams of Hope. We act as a fundraising body for capital projects in developing nations. I run their blog http://streamsofhope.blogspot.com and I've found that social media is THE BEST way to unite voices in the social justice field. I've been able to meet and interview the Presidents of World Vision Canada, CARE Canada, and One Day's Wages simply through Twitter. Phenomenal! (Check the blog for the interviews.) And I just finished a little experiment with donating to charity: water via a huge Twitter shout out. It's amazing what we can do with these tools when we employ them for the good of others. I really hope this panel happens! I'll be in the front row.

@brynajones
Danny Brown
on 23/8/09
Mark, I'm biased (obviously!) but this could be such a great panel that even if I wasn't on it, I'd love to see it happen. Fingers crossed fella, and here's to making a difference regardless!
Teresa Hall
on 23/8/09
What a panel!! This group could definitely add some real value via their panel!! BIG THUMBS UP!
Nick Aster
on 23/8/09
Nice work guys... I'll be there.
Johan Persson
on 24/8/09
This one will go on my Twitter and FB. This is important. Especially in a increasingly fast paced world with a growing gap between those who have and those who do not.
Allen Mireles
on 24/8/09
So pleased to see this panel as an option. Just the next natural step in the important works started by Danny brown with the creation of 12 for 12 K.

Looking forward to this. good work, all of you!
Eve Simon
on 24/8/09
Great panel line up - this is a session not to be missed!
Kasey Skala
on 26/8/09
If there is one person who knows SM and how it can be utilized to help others, it's Danny Brown. A+ panel.
Kendra Kellogg
on 2/9/09
A big, big thumbs up for the brilliant minds on this panel. This will be a top-notch discussion between some of the best mind shaping social media for social good. Excellent.
Ivan Boothe
on 4/9/09
The stage might collapse from the panelists' immense collective wisdom.

But other than that, thumbs up!
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
Sounds like it will be a very interactive panel... like the style.
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