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21st Century Journalism

August 31, 2010 by TNC

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The future of journalism is not limited by a person, place or degree…

Spilling Over from Powering a Nation on Vimeo.

Journalism for the 21st Century

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Audio Myths

January 15, 2010 by TNC

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Ed Catmull of Pixar on Business

December 13, 2009 by TNC

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A great presentation on business by Ed Catmull of Pixar. This is part of a presentation he gave at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ed discusses how ironing out the little problems can make it so companies can avoid big disasters.

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Greenpeace: Voices of Change

September 22, 2009 by TNC

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View on ExposureRoom

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The History of the Internet

May 23, 2009 by TNC

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A VC: Let The Students Teach

April 28, 2009 by TNC

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When we want a different world, we will need a different education…

Last night I read An Unschooling Manifesto by Dave Pollard. It’s a very inspiration post and well worth reading. I don’t know enough about the unschooling movement to know if I should get behind it or not. But so much of what Dave says rings true to me. I particularly like this part:

Then in Grade 12, something remarkable happened: My school decided to
pilot a program called “independent study”, that allowed any student
maintaining at least an 80% average on term tests in any subject (that
was an achievement in those days, when a C — 60% — really was the
average grade given) to skip classes in that subject until/unless their
grades fell below that threshold. There was…

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A VC: Content Matters

January 31, 2009 by TNC

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Some good information…

Barry Graubert writes the excellent Content Matters blog and he’s got an interview with me up there today.

Here is one question and my answer:

CM: Historically, as the economy comes out of recession, it
creates transformation and change. Which segments have the potential
for transformation in an eventual recovery?

FW: Every
industry that is based on knowledge or information or some other form
of non-physical matter (atoms vs bits) is going to fundamentally
transform and this downturn will be the darwinian forcing function. Think about energy and power systems, banking, media, education. They all have that aspect to them.

There’s four more questions and answers so click on this link and go check it out. As a bonus and…

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Social Media Presentation

November 9, 2008 by TNC

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This is a slide presentation by Jeremiah Owyang from the Thin Air Summit a conference I spoke at this weekend. Great stuff…

The Future of Media in the Social Era

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Storytelling… good insight on the process

October 26, 2008 by TNC

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At Least Someone is Paying Attention

September 5, 2008 by TNC

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