Friday, July 30, 2010
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Kevin Millsip
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Ifny Lachance
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: David Ramslie
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Diane Roberts
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Tegan Adams
Tegan Adams, teaching and research assistant in the faculty of land and food systems at the University of British Columbia, challenges listeners to create a personal food ethic – to consider where their food was produced and how, then make choices that promote sustainability.
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Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Jaime Kowal
Photographer Jaime Kowal believes in the power of visual storytelling to educate and inspire others. In this presentation she invites individuals to share their images and ideas for a greener Vancouver on GreentheCityVancouver.com, a website created by her company Graphic Activist.
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Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Initiatives Summary
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: John Robinson
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Eesmyal Santos-Brault
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Ken Lum
Internationally-celebrated artist Ken Lum presents his vision for a sustainable city as a community that is not indifferent to trauma, that values cultural differences, and is accepting of diverse lifestyles.
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Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Preet Bal & Poonam Sandhu
Preet Bal and Poonam Sandhu of Sandhog Creations Society discuss their voluntary effort to promote recycling during the annual Vaisakhi parades in Vancouver and Surrey – parades attended by 50,000 and 100,000 members of the East Indian community respectively.
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Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Ernesto Gomez
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Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Denise Taschereau
Denise Taschereau explains her career trajectory from a degree in environmental management to self-professed “swag baron” and owner of Fairware promotional products. Her passion for helping companies align their corporate buying with their values stems from an awareness that individual choices “in high volume” have a huge impact.
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Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Mark Holland
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Keynote by Mayor Gregor Robertson
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 12: Intro by Steve and Jane Cox
Hosts Steven and Jane Cox, directors of Cause+Affect Design, provide an overview of the origin of Pecha Kucha and their motivation for spearheading this initiative in Vancouver. Pucker up and practice saying “Pecha Kucha” with help from this clip.
Philanthropy
I have given a lot of money to various causes over the years and have concluded it was a complete waste. The reason why is that it was passive and reactive, with no real attention being paid to the impact it might have. My response to this is not to pull back, but rather to redouble my efforts, take the time to devise a donation strategy, pick my battles and be very conscious of whether I am being effective. This takes a lot of time, but I like how it is working out.On re-reading the above, the tone is a little harsher than it needed to be. (I overreacted a bit to the sixth attempt from this person to contact me.) I have all the respect in the world for those who are taking an active role, whatever it is, when so many don't. But the opportunity cost is too high to just be reactive.
Part of the strategy is to allocate my time carefully. There are only so many hours in the day that I can spend on philanthropic efforts. Every minute that I take to write letters like this one is a minute I can't spend finding the most effective way to stop the trafficking of women in Vietnam or free a political prisoner in Burma. We get a lot of requests for donations to all kinds of things. We can either say yes to all of them or no to all of them, but there is no way we are going to take the time to investigate them to see which ones we feel we should support. Instead, we will use our time to identify the efforts that make the most sense to us and we will put a lot of support behind those, without having to be approached about it. In other words, don't call us, we'll call you.
So, no, I don't know your organization and I am not going find out about it. I will assume that you are a good person who is sincere in what you are trying to do. If that is the case, then I think you will agree that there are many ways to do good things in this world and that we should be respectful of the time and efforts of those who are doing what they can, even if it is not directly supporting our own specific cause.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
NV10: How (Should) Journalists Use Social Media
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Jesse Korzan
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Gosia Kamela
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Todd Smith
From Pecha Kucha Vancouver, Volume 11.
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Christine Jung
From Pecha Kucha Vancouver, Volume 11.
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Michael Gordon
From Pecha Kucha Vancouver, Volume 11.
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Brian LeRoux
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Lauren Bacon
From Pecha Kucha Vancouver, Volume 11.
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Glenn Entis
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Mara Branscombe
NV10: Telling Stories in Land and Food Systems
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Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Irwin Oostindie
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Heather Redfern
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Kevin Vallely
Pecha Kucha Vancouver 11: Ryan Opina
From Pecha Kucha Vancouver, Volume 11.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
NV10: Monica Hamburg: Finding Your Online Voice
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NV10: David Ng: Good Science
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Nice way to add tweets to your blog
PluralEyes is awesome! RT @thedvshow: FCP Tips: @PluralEyes w/5D MK II - Final Cut Pro http://cli.gs/57PDtThu May 06 04:08:07 via Echofon
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@kevinshahinian love the Pluraleyes as well! Simply magnificent...Wed May 05 22:05:38 via Twitterrific
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OK, I admit it, this is just an excuse to brag...
what did I ever do before PluralEyes... Brilliant.Wed May 05 19:52:56 via web
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
DemoCamp: Drupal Geo Openlayers
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