What's Moving Us?
We Gotta Share This Everywhere
Gel Conference- At the recent Gel Conference in New York City, John Reynolds, Founder of Twirlr, was asked to speak about his new social community site. Watch what happens during this very improvisational presentation.
Gel, short for "Good Experience Live", is a conference and community exploring good experience in all its forms - in art, business, technology, society, and life. Instead of focusing on just one thing - design, technology, user experience, business - like many conferences, Gel brings together ideas, experiences, and thought leaders from many disciplines.
Participants are invited to find the common patterns, even in areas vastly different from their own. It's great to see a conference that's focused more on the joy of human technological experiences, versus their economic growth potentials. Gel was founded by Mark Hurst in 2003 and has run a spring event in New York City each year since.
Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents.
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If governments or major corporations around the world ever gained full control over all aspects of your internet access, would this affect you? Do you feel this can and will eventually happen?
Occupy The Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move To Amend planned this bold action to mark the 2nd anniversary of the landmark Citizens United v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court decision. Volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created, and continues to expand, corporate personhood rights.
Americans across the country are on the march, and they are marching our way. They carry signs that say, “Corporations are NOT people! Money is NOT Speech!” And they are chanting those truths at the top of their lungs. Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West, professor at Princeton University. The time has come to use your voice and make these truths evident to the courts.
Reflecting on the international impact of social media and its role as a catalyst in driving cultural, political, economic and social change, Social Media Week’s theme from February 13th to the 17th will focus on Empowering Change through Collaboration.
This theme is designed as a call to action, allowing individuals and organizations around the world to explore how social media empowers citizens, increases mobility and enables mass collaboration. Don Tapscott, author and advisor on social media and it’s economics impact, kicks off a series of articles and talks about how people everywhere can help to create a sustainable future by participating in a global conversation during Social Media Week. Submission forms for each participating city are now available here.
*Live video streaming of some events will be broadcast on the SMW Channel. Sponsored and presented by LiveStream.com.
Internet Week is a week-long festival of events celebrating New York’s thriving internet industry and community from May 14th to the 21st. Internet Week invites all interested companies and organizations to participate.
Like the Web itself, Internet Week is open: anyone can throw events citywide. No organization is too big or too small to be included. Open access for all. Internet Week New York is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the City of New York and The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.
*Live video streaming of some events will be broadcast on the Internet Week NY Channel. Sponsored and presented by LiveStream.com.
Celebrating the best in online video, the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards, June 7th through the 9th, are jam-packed with new judges, new categories, and new $5,000 grants for category winners and one $25,000 grand prize.
Entrants can submit any original work that premiered anywhere online between July 31, 2010 and February 20, 2012 or any original work that has never been premiered before. Filmmakers can enter their works for consideration in one of 13 different judged categories. An independent jury will judge entries, which includes all of the category winners from 2010 as well as two industry luminaries/experts per category.
“Since our inaugural event, we have watched online video explode into a primary medium for new talent discovery,” said Jeremy Boxer, Director of the Vimeo Festival + Awards. “More and more creators earn visibility, credibility and, ultimately, work by showcasing their videos online. We created the Vimeo Festival + Awards to celebrate the best of the best of these videos.”
