I am always on the lookout for media technologies that are used in positive ways. Here are two examples coming from completely different angles.
Information Radically Improves Economic Viability
The Manobi foundation uses technology to provide rural farmers in Africa with current market prices. I have written about them [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Society'
Using Cell Phones and Video Games to Solve Social Problems
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture & Change, Psychology, Society
Tags: Cell phones·Evoke·Manobi·TED·Video Games
Carried Away with Balloon Boy
October 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Psychology, Society
This article was published on PsychologyToday.com in my blog “Positively Media.”
The big story today was the six-year old boy who was carried away in the family weather balloon. It was the ONLY story on the news radio channel during my drive home from the post office and I arrived back at my desk [...]
Identifying Trends and Changes in the Social Media Landscape
July 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Psychology, Social Media, Society
Social media tools are a great way to get to know your audience better and for less expense, than you ever have before. Yet, social media tools seem to change overnight. As Heidi Klum says on Project Runway, “One minute you’re in, the next, you’re out.”
For social media marketers, communicators, and researchers, this means not [...]
Twitter and Goliath
April 14th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Social Media, Society
This was posted April 13, 2009 on my blog “Positively Media” at Psychology Today.
First it was “Dell Hell” and now it is “#AmazonFail.” For all the debates over the purpose, point, and value of social media, it is events like these that illustrate how important they have become and how powerful they can be.
“Dell [...]
Tags: Amazon·Dell Hell·Social Media·twitter
News MediaScape Summary
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Social Media, Society, Technology
Pew Internet and American Life project recently posted a slideshow that summarizes their findings of the changes in the News MediaScape. There’s no sound but the charts and graphics tell a pretty good story.
2009 Feb 17 Public Broadcasters
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Tags: mediascape·news media
