Category Archives: Community

TEDxUoU — TED Event in Salt Lake City

Fri­day, June 4, 2010 TED offi­cially came to Utah. TEDx, a new pro­gram that brings TED-​​​​quality talks to local com­mu­ni­ties launched it’s first event in Salt Lake City at the Uni­ver­sity of Utah. The first pre­sen­ter was Tom Van­der Ark, for­mer exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun­da­tion, who is work­ing on a new idea

How Connected Is Your Brand Community?

Imag­ine the scene. You’re a woman who has heard great things about a new bou­tique tar­geted to women just like you. You steal away some time from work to go there. The minute you enter the bou­tique, you’re in heaven! You hear kind & lov­ing voices on the bou­tique stereo speak­ers. Video from the CEO is play­ing

Neurons with legs — How wideband social media is changing the world’s cognitive structure

Note: This is a guest blog writ­ten by Alis­tair Cock­burn 2009.07.25. How wide­band social media is chang­ing the world’s cog­ni­tive struc­ture Peo­ple work­ing together is like a large brain per­form­ing a com­pu­ta­tion, but in which each neu­ron has legs and tends to wan­der off at ran­dom moments. Hutchins coined the phrase dis­trib­uted cog­ni­tion for when peo­ple work together