Posted on March 27, 2008 by Sameer Padania
A brief dispatch from San Francisco, where yesterday I spent some quality time with Loic Le Meur, Cathy Brookes and VinVin at Seesmic. As well as a quickfire exchange with users on Seesmic - some of whom are already on the Hub - Loic and I had a quick chat on Seesmic’s rooftop:
More soon [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008 by matissebh
A few weeks ago I attended the Making Your Media Matter conference put on by the stupendous folks at the Center for Social Media at American University. A report is now available produced by the conference rapporteur here which is a useful round up of major themes and ideas discussed, broken down into the various [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Sameer Padania
The crisis in Kenya may ultimately stem from a democratic failure, corruption and tribalism, or poverty and inequality, but either way, evidence of brutal violence continues to emerge, both in terms of killings and of violence against women and girls, and there’s news of an impending health crisis. For a quick tour d’horizon, including [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2007 by Sameer Padania
If you haven’t come across The Elders already, you will soon - not least because we are partnering with them on their Every Human Has Rights campaign.
On Sunday morning I sat in on a conference call with three of The Elders - Graça Machel, Mary Robinson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu - and 5 bloggers from [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2007 by Sameer Padania
Welcome, Facebookers!
The Hub Group on Facebook is live… Join now!
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