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TEDxHouston is Houston's very own, independently organized TED event. A team of creative professionals have volunteered to bring together some of Houston's most innovative and inspiring minds. #TEDx #TEDxHouston #Houston
STOP THE TRAFFIK is a growing global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to PREVENT the sale of people, PROTECT the trafficked and PROSECUTE the traffickers.
Welcome Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. Their new book, Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change, will help you implement the organizational culture changes needed to effectively tap new networks and drive change.
Charles Tsai, the Founder of Social Creatives, offers a simple framework to help us understand and practice social entrepreneurship so that our efforts at social change can become true success stories rather than simply “learning experiences.”
Annie Leonard has a gift for teaching without preaching. The Story of Stuff project is a brilliant masterwork. Annie tracks the life of the Stuff we use every day, how they produced, distributed, and consumed, and where they go when we throw them out. The movement...
Named for the only insect able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, The Dragonfly Effect reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results through harnessing the incredible power of social media.
Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant spent four years surveying thousands of nonprofit CEOs, conducting hundreds of interviews, and studying 12 high-impact nonprofits to uncover their secrets to success. #Books #Impact
A new decade. An ongoing global financial crisis. It's a time to regroup, re-evaluate -- and then to dream. Dream big. Because the world of ideas has never mattered more. For TED2010 we've assembled a lineup of speakers whose ideas and ingenuity will thrill,...
Amy J.C. Cuddy is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, uses experimental methods to investigate how people judge each other and themselves. PopTech 2011: October 19 - 22, 2011, Camden, Maine USA #PopTech, #PopTech2011, #Business, #Psychology, #Harvard
Thomas Thwaites is a London-based designer whose work examines how technology and science interact with beliefs to shape our society. PopTech 2011: October 19 - 22, 2011, Camden, Maine USA #PopTech, #PopTech2011, #Technology, #Design, #DIY, #Funny
Robert Neuwirth is the author of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World. His business and investigative writings have appeared in a variety of publications. PopTech 2011: October 19 - 22, 2011, Camden, Maine USA #PopTech, #PopTech2011, #Politics,...
Adrien Treuille uses computer games, simulation and animation to help understand movement, shapes and structures. He co-created EteRNA and Foldit, computer games where users design and fold real biomolecules and, as a result, help reveal better ways for drugs to...
A global shift is under way. The world is rebalancing. PopTech 2011 looks ahead at the new rule sets, opportunities and imperatives that this great rebalancing might bring. October 19 - 22, 2011, Camden, Maine USA. #PopTech #PopTech2011 #Conference
The President of Iceland describes how his country encountered social and democratic upheaval after the economic crisis of 2008. PopTech 2011 conference, October 19 - 22, 2011, Camden, Maine USA
Stephanie Coontz is an author, historian, and faculty member at The Evergreen State College. PopTech 2011: October 19 - 22, 2011, Camden, Maine USA #PopTech #PopTech2011 #Politics #Human_Rights #Women
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online...
TEDx is a new program that enables local communities such as schools, businesses, libraries, neighborhoods or just groups of friends to organize, design and host their own independent, TED-like events. If you have TEDx event links or Bags to add, post a comment or...
A conference examining and exploring how the human rights and high-tech sectors can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of new technologies. When: October 25th-26th, 2011 Where: Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco
What are your best practices for curating content? Share your tips, tactics, tools, and techniques for effectively curating to serve your audience. And, if you've written about curation in the past, share the link with us! To participate in this month's...
The 9/11 Day Observance was originally created in 2002 by David Paine, with his friend Jay Winuk. David and Jay had worked together in New York City, long before the 9/11 attacks. Tragically Jay's younger brother Glenn was one of the nearly 3,000 people killed on...