Marketing Natives – taking online offline [Interview with Benjamin Ruschin]
The Vienna based project Marketing Natives started organizing events and gathering members in 2011 and reached an unexpected level of participants for the Austrian scene so far. It focuses on connecting young professionals both offline through the actual conferences that are being held six times a year, and online through social communication platforms. Read more…
Education for All: Educating America’s Illegal Immigrants
In the United States of America, state governments generally provide children with 13 years of free education. However, at the secondary level, education in the United States is not usually free and can, in fact, be very expensive. To help offset this financial burden and give everyone equal opportunity to a bright professional future, various public and private institutions provide financial aid and scholarships to students on the basis of need, merit, or affiliation. Read more…
Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV
For our Mothers and all Mothers on Mother’s Day.
I would like to honor and introduce today’s topic with a poem by famous American author Maya Angelou. Her words and poem describe the power and strength of Mothers all over the world better than I could. Furthermore Mitchel Besser’s TED talk is showing us the tremendous capacity of Mothers’s love and care which isn’t limited to their children only, but an overwhelming and apparently endless resource for other mothers as well and a great help in their fight against HIV.
Mother’s love worth spreading!
Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations … by banjo
Abigail Washburn could have become a lawyer. She wanted to improve the U.S.- China relations by becoming a lawyer and tackling the system by a top-down approach. Instead she became an advocate of the hearts. Read more…
The crazy or the cynical ones?
For his retaking of Apple in 1997, Steve Jobs had a poem composed as the guiding theme of his comeback – it marked the core of the company’s “think different” philosophy and saw the birth of all products from the imac to the ipad, leading Apple from the verge of bankruptcy to becoming the most valuable firm in the world on January 25, 2012. Read more…
I share, therefore I am…?
Almost a decade ago, sociologists, physiologists and technology experts were rushing into predicting the future of the Internet and online communication. And here we are, facing an unconscious need of taking a step back, seeing the bigger picture and checking whether their predictions were valid or not. Read more…
Turning words into magic
Adventure Based Traveling: Let’s Add Some Challenging Action.
A trip usually starts with a little idea or an already burning desire to add some extra spicy value to your life. Whether you’re primary interested in a foreign culture, spoken language or the beauty of traveling itself: No place too far to reach these days. If you’re looking for some extra ingredients to make sure that your upcoming trip will definitely be a lasting adventure: Socially powered challenges might be your thing.
Christopher “moot” Poole: The case for anonymity online
It’s responsible for launching several successful Web-based trends, from the wildly popular “lolcat” phenomenon to the surprise comeback of ’80s one-hit wonder Rick Astley. Christopher “moot” Poole is talking about 4chan, a lo-fi discussion website that features dozens of message boards and image boards within six broad categories, stemming from Japanese animation to travel. Read more…
Caine’s arcade
When I was told to watch a short film about a 9 year old boy’s cardboard arcade, located in his dad’s used auto parts store in East LA, I took it lightly, alongside the heavy bundle of various information I have to filter daily. But then as I watched it, my heart grew bigger and I was deep into the story, sharing one of those moments, when hope for the future of humanity conquers fears of its demise. Read more…
