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Title:

A Conversation about Social Change through Social Media

Your vote:
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Organizer:
Mark Horvath, InvisiblePeople.tv
Description:
A few words, a few pictures, a transformative experience. Good stories are three-way - they include the storyteller and the audience both in the experience and transport to a third place, a shared experience, together. Join us for a conversation on how social media can affect real social change!
Questions
Answered:
  1. Why should I care about the social justice enough to spread the word via social media
  2. How can I tell a story in 140 characters on Twitter?
  3. What is the “lean in” effect and how can I use it?
  4. Can social media *really* change our world?
  5. How can I create momentum with social media?
  6. Why do Twitter and socks make such a perfect pair?
  7. Can I use your cause tactics in my for-profit world?
  8. Why should organizations have a social media strategy (and employment policy?)
  9. What can I do immediately to affect change?
  10. Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Education, Non-Profits, Social Issues, Social Networking
Type:
Solo
Event:
Interactive 2010
Danny Brown
on 17/8/09
Mark is an incredible individual who is giving a voice to those who need it the most - he'd be an amazing panelist and gets my vote!
M Pamela Bumsted
on 17/8/09
I'm impressed with Mark's efforts via Facebook and Twitter, etc. I've been working to help people in the Unorganized Borough improve their lives (no roads and usually 400 miles from the nearest Wal-Mart) since 2005 using social media and Mark has given me ideas that might transfer to our huge region with fewer than 1 (one) person per square mile. [especially when we have to relocate to Anchorage due to environmental change, collapsed fishing, and erosion]
Allison Collier
on 18/8/09
I have followed Mark on twitter and am impressed with his vision and ability to expose the hidden conditions of the homeless.
Andy Coatel
on 29/8/09
Mark is a world-changer. And from a Canayjun perspective, his reach is international.
Alan Graham
on 1/9/09
Mark Horvath (@hardlynormal) is the voice for the homeless nationally in social media. He has been travelling the country putting a face on homelessness through social media and has a tremendous understanding of the power of these tools. His presence at SXSW will bring social good to the essence of its meaning. VOTE FOR HIM!!
Debra Pryor
on 1/9/09
Mark Horvath is my vote! I'm amazed by what he has already accomplished through social media to bring awareness & ACTION to the issue of homelessness... and he's not done! Mark's been a personal inspiration to me in buiding social media connections for Phoenix Rescue Mission and would be an amazing panelist for SXSW.
traci schaeffer
on 1/9/09
Mark is such an amazing person to do what he is doing. Bringing light to such a dark and hidden subject! I am shocked at what he has been able to accomplish! VOTE FOR MARK!
Mark Horvath
on 21/10/09
I drove around the US this summer giving a voice to the homeless using social media

Ford’s website http://www.thefordstory.com/ford-on-blogs/invisible-people/

InvisiblePeople.Tv Brings A Voice To Homelessness Through Road Trip U.S.A Tour

The plight of homelessness is one that many people are aware of, but few choose to act on. While three million people sleep on the streets of America every night, most of us go about our daily business with our eyes and ears closed to the issue at hand. It’s this lack of knowledge and based on a personal experience of homelessness that Mark Horvath is setting out to enact change through the InvisiblePeople.tv Road Trip U.S.A.

Tour press release – http://invisiblepeople.tv/tourpressrelease

Chicago Now – very powerful post

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/one-story-up/2009/09/making-the-invisible-visible.html

CNN documents I got the word 'homeless' to trend on twitter when I spoke at Gnomedex

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/24/gnomedex-puts-the-human-face-on-tech/

Detroit ABC

http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story/A-One-man-Mission-Against-Homelessness/rs5BqX8LWU6gJvOET3OVXw.cspx


Seattle NBC

http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=391465

Albuquerque NBC

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1044443.shtml?cat=500

road trip media release - http://invppl.info


Mark Horvath
on 2/11/09
140 Characters Conference Presents Mark Horvath: Making the Invisible Visible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTPewtWAL2Y

Shira Lazar chats with Mark Horvath at blogworld

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWoomf3ZsrU
Mark Horvath
on 14/11/09
11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/13/11-twitter-activists-you_n_356355.html?slidenumber=m1Hk3rhJGPg%3D#slide_image

not another twitter conference

http://eguiders.com/exclusive/the-spark-series-part-2

i hope you view all this additional info before you make final picks. much has changed since originally submitted

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