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  • Posted by Michael Pinchera at
    12:00AM 06/18/2012 • 0 Comments

    Howard Rheingold in Conversation

    The Global Business Network has posted these videos of a conversation with bestselling author and WEC 2012 speaker Howard Rheingold. This is outstanding introduction of the man and his latest points of discussion.

    Before moving on to the videos, have you signed up to be a hosted buyer at the 2012 WEC in St. Louis? It's free...and could make your entire WEC experience free. And once at WEC, you too will be able to engage Rheingold in conversation.

    Now enjoy the videos!



  • Posted by Michael Pinchera at
    12:00AM 05/31/2012 • 0 Comments

    Learn to Thrive Online

    WEC Flash Point speaker, One+ profile subject and social network mastermind (is “godfather” a better title?) Howard Rheingold is getting more and more press as of late…

    Justin Ellis, over at the Nieman Lab, has written a wonderful introduction to and overview of Rheingold and his newest book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online.

    "Net Smart is a book for an era where we’ve moved past just creating online identities and communities, but still have to educate ourselves on how to operate in day-to-day life. Rheingold said he believes a better understanding and deeper use of things like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are 'essential survival skills' that will last beyond today or the lifespan of those individual companies."

    As part of Flash Point ideas fest at the WEC, July 28-31 in St. Louis, Rheingold will expand on the Net Smart thoughts introduced at this year’s SXSW: the five essential web literacies.

    Want to see Rheingold for free? Qualify for the Hosted Buyer program to attend the entire conference for free.

    Image (CC) Oscar Espiritusanto


  • Posted by Michael Pinchera at
    12:00AM 01/27/2012 • 0 Comments

    The Future of Online Learning

    Get a glimpse into the future of high-end online learning, a world in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a "peer-agogy." Howard Rheingold presented this lecture at UC Berkeley on January 23, 2012.

    Notes on the lecture:
    FWD to 8:00 to skip the intros.
    This is a meaty video--90 minutes in length.  

    This lecture is presented by UC's Berkeley Center for New Media with funding from the Regents' Professorships and Lectureships Program. Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley School of Information.

    Get more knowledge bombs from Howard Rheingold with an exclusive interview in the Feb. issue of One+.
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  • Posted by Michael Pinchera at
    12:00AM 07/11/2011 • 0 Comments

    Free: Social Networks & Networking

    "I've become convinced that understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century."

    That's how Howard Rheinhold introduces this "mini-course" on networking and social networks.

    Citing works and references to human networks of centuries past through to virtual communities and smart mobs and how to self-organize, Rheingold packs a bevy of valuable history into this video. It ends with a discussion of copyright law and net neutrality as ethical conflicts of individual freedom vs. institutional control.