Social Media Tools for Work & Learning

The Story of Stuff

May 15th, 2009

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This is a powerful video that chronicles the story of how we produce and consume commodities. It’s a simple video about very complex environmental, social and economic issues.It’s made by Annie Leonard and the Tides Foundation and Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption.

School children all over the world are getting exposed to the film by their teachers who are fed up with the poor documentation and teaching tools for environmental studies. The New York Times has written an in depth article on the video. Here’s a brief quote “The video is a cheerful but brutal assessment of how much Americans waste, and it has its detractors. But it has been embraced by teachers eager to supplement textbooks that lag behind scientific findings on climate change and pollution.”

One of my goals is to create effective videos using social media tools to illustrate, advocate and educate people about complex subjects. I am particularly interested in how social media might help disseminate important community based research. This film has set the bar high. I can see how a compelling story, told with passion and clear messages can go a long way to getting the message out.

The video I included is the full version a from YouTube. It’s a must see film… a good one for passing on to your family and friends.

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Web 2.0 Explained

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The Social Non Profit – My Lens

A social non profit is attuned, responsive and adaptive to the complex factors affecting its constituents and communities. In a social non profit there is an alignment between staff, services, governance systems and online communications. Social non profits value learning and innovation and believe in working smarter by using social tech tools to enhance communication, collaboration and learning amongst staff, volunteers, partners and service users. These organizations believe that strategic use of social media empowers staff, improves services and strengthens governance practices.

Social Web Partners

I'm very pleased to have a number of very capable and talented consultants as friends and partners that work with me from time to time.

Alain Hurtubise (iAutomate.ca) designs and developments web 2. 0 platforms. Alain has over 20 years experience in web design and enterprise systems programming with large corporations. Alain's passion is paying it forward through his work with me in the non profit sector.

Peter Levesque's company, Knowledge Mobilization Works (based in Ottawa) is dedicated to building the capacity of people to create value through knowledge mobilization.

Mark Holmgren (Mark Holmgren Consulting - Edmonton AB) contributes his extensive organizational change expertise along with an array of social media integration expertise.