Tuesday, November 02, 2004I have lots to blog about Pop!tech and my trip - for starters a series of pics -
Pop!tech dinner at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum at Rockport, Maine :
Shannon Clark and Jerry Michalski :
Blogger's dinner at Pop!tech :
Meeting Bill Ives and Judith in Boston - i emailed Bill to say i was in his city for a day and we met up for lunch - Judith who happened to be in Boston too for VON met us and we had a great time discussing blogs and online collaboration :
Dinner with Judith and Jim McGee in Boston - Judith said Jim's in town - lets call him and meet up - was a lovely evening and really special chatting with Jim who is really sharp, vibrant and full of energy !
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Why do i feel like i have been given a heads up and a kick on my butt at the same time that says get going girl ! But seriously, its a wonderful opportunity - one i could never have dreamed up myself. Thanks, Stuart !
Conversations - Another World
"What methods are available for bringing more international conference content to America? For me an important theme running across Pop!Tech was the global world. While we had a few foreign presenters and participants in the audience there really weren't many. There were plenty of excursions to 'foreign" places, many maps that looked similar, and yet these interpretations were "researchers" rather than Brazilians, Africans, Asians, etc. I know the message got out and for cost reasons is a difficult task for conference organizers. Still I know Andrew Zolli wants suggestions for next year. Dina blogged the problem very succinctly below after we watched the Bhutan presentation. I believe Dina could also be part of the solution.
Dina has been working on an ethnography project around India for the last year. Dig a little deeper and you learn she also has a talented sister Sherna Dastur whose last film won some international prizes. So my suggestion would be to find a small sum - sponsorship for these two to document 12 "India Changing" insights, captured in local language, with a linked commentary. Creating stories though a more impartial lens. An element of human voices and the more gritty side of some of the challenges.
This just seems like the right opportunity to me. Comment on Dina's blog and make her write a proposal for next year. How's that as a plug for a blogging buddy?
There are some other possibilities for Pop!Tech conversations too. I was just amazed at the number of people that had been there more than 5 times... some 8! Many of this core community was local. I'd think that they could provide a very interesting commentory on change too. Clearly this conference has a life. Some of these we got in the very well organized lunches which grouped us nicely together with different people at different cafe's. Still I'd really like more opportunities to find the real nuggets of wisdom in the crowd. I realize that I missed meeting so many neat people."
I spoke about virtual teams in an earlier post today - it DOES work :):):)
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