New Facebook Timeline Tells Livestrong's Story Of Endurance In 2010, when Fast Company profiled Doug Ulman, the President and CEO of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Armstrong was facing a doping scandal. Allegations were never substantiated, and the case was eventually dropped. For a while, however, there were questions about whether the charity could survive without him. All of that makes Facebook's decision to enlist the Foundation as one of the first non-profits to test out Timeline brand pages this week more interesting. "To have the capability of telling a story over time that people can actually engage with is really important," Ulman told Fast Company on a call with Livestrong's Director of New Media Travis Rimel. "It gives our users our fans the opportunity to reflect back on where they were when things happened," Rimel added. In addition to providing a forum for reflection, as Facebook Timeline pioneers, Ulman and Rimel hope to serve as a model for other non-profit organizations facing the challenges of the social media age.
Een mooi machtsspel | AARDEWIJN In de film ‘Elizabeth’ uit 1998 van de regisseur Shekhar Kapur komt een scene voor waarin de jonge protestante vorstin Elizabeth, gespeeld door Cate Blanchett, ten overstaan van het parlement, haar overtuiging duidelijk maakt, dat het land dat in de 16e eeuw geteisterd wordt door de vernietigende strijd tussen katholieken en protestanten, gebaat is bij ‘a single church of England’. Met die overtuiging neemt Elizabeth een standpunt in, dat haaks staat op de opvattingen binnen het parlement en ze botst op een muur van verzet. Toch zet Elizabeth door. Ze is vastbesloten haar volk te bevrijden van de dood en verderf zaaiende tweespalt die haar land in de greep houdt. Ondanks de machtige weerstand tegen het onmogelijke voorstel, lukt het haar om tijdens die parlementaire zitting toch een meerderheid van de stemmen voor haar standpunt te behalen. Deze scene geeft een bijna voyeuristisch inkijkje in een privéwereld. En dan, plotseling, verandert er iets. Echter, dat is niet het hele verhaal.
The other side of the digital world Felipe Tofani is a Brazilian art director based in São Paulo who likes to write about himself in the third person! He has a degree in Advertising, which he got back in 2005 in his hometown Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (yay, my hometown as well). He has been working with interaction design and online advertising since he graduated. Mr. Tofani also likes to learn new things… right now he is “toying” with motion design, 3D modelling and some actionscript. “Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it’s hard to be at the cutting edge of what’s cool and not do something that’s totally geeky.” Dear blankListen to your grandmaLife itself is a quotationSeriously, believe them Like this: Like Loading... Related Funny vector art! Coffee AdsIn "Design" Happy Birthday São PauloIn "Fashion" 5 comments I have neither an iPad nor an iPhone and I have never played AngryBirds before. Leave a Reply Follow Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 5,485 other followers Powered by WordPress.com
20 Incredible TED Talks You Should Show Your High School Students What makes TED such an appealing web series and organization is its desire to offer up a little something for everyone. This includes high school students and the teachers who love, hate, or tolerate them. Honestly, pretty much any video hosted there boasts its own educational value, but some hold more relevance than others. Whether they empower and inspire, shine a light on social injustices or simply show off some seriously cool innovations, the following 20 videos are bound to make class time just a little more interesting. Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in othersFrom TED’s Best of the Web series comes a fabulous lecture by influential psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl.
Top 10 Motivational YouTube Videos for Entrepreneurs Whether you’re a young kid who dreams of doing something incredible or a veteran with an extensive entrepreneurial résumé, we all need motivation. Skipping past the cat videos, one of the greatest sources of motivation is YouTube. Here are 10 of the top motivational YouTube videos for entrepreneurs. Motivational Videos for Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs Can Change the World 785,871 views · 2:20 Message: Anything is possible as long as you maintain your kid-like perspective. Where Good Ideas Come From 1,120,617 views · 4:07 Message: Ideas don’t just happen. The Best Motivation Video 2,796,219 views · 1:17 Message: Nobody has an obstacle-free path to success. The Rocky Story by Anthony Robbins 14,443 views · 9:22 Message: One of the world’s most interesting entrepreneurial struggles told by one of the most motivational people in the world. Everything Started as Nothing 5,094 views · 4:21 Will’s Wisdom 61,901 views · 9:57 Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Feel free to inspire me! Bullet cig Abduzeedo is a very cool website about graphic design inspiration and photoshop tutorials by Fabio Sasso, who is a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre. ‘Expect the unexpected, nothing better than being inspired by something you have never seen before or even thought about it before.’ Here are some really random and very cool stuff selected to brighten up your day… if you have some nice inspiration feel free to share with us on the comments. Real life puzzle Real cartoon See-saw table Street sculpture The human flamingo Landmine ketchup Street art Hair affairs Stop the violence campaign Muscle leggins Over abundance NY Times Biker blinkers Nintendo coffee mug Mini trimmer Coffee stain portrait ‘If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.’ Anything is inspirationYes, carved books! Like this: Like Loading...
Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning Pamela Randall: Social-emotional skills are the essential skills for success in school, work and life. Natalie Walchuk: Social-emotional learning centers their mind and body. It reduces their emotional tension, so they can be open to new content and material. Pamela: If we expect students to be college and career ready, it's important for us to focus on these skills and competencies: Self-Awareness; Self-Management; Social Awareness; Relationship Skills; and Responsible Decision-Making. Natalie: We find that Self-Awareness is one of the hardest things for young people. Pamela: Self-Management is the ability to self-motivate, to have self-control, to regulate one's emotions. Natalie: In a classroom, that may be a breathing exercise, or that might be counting to five, or taking a break. Rose Ludwig: So with students who don't really know how to deal with their anger, or don't really know how to resolve conflict, we're giving them a tool that helps them deal with it in a less stressful way.
A Chronicle of French Hipsters A Chronicle of French Hipsters Posted by Morrison Conway on August 6, 2012 · 74 Comments Theo Gosselin is an amateur photographer from Paris. His photographs are full of young enthusiasm and youthful romance as he documents the hipster movement in France. Like this: Like Loading...
Top 5 Most Inspirational Videos on YouTube “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Post written by Leo Babauta. Sometimes we all can use a little inspiration. Play these as needed. 1. 2. Unless you’re a cold-hearted bastard (and none of you who read this blog are, I know), you will get teary-eyed watching this video. 3. I admit, I’m a Steve Jobs fanboy — the guy invented the Mac, the iPod, and Pixar for goodness sake! 4. Will Smith is right on in this speech. 5. —Read about simple productivity, focus and getting great things done in my book, The Power of Less.
10 Articles That Changed My Life | LifeReboot.com It’s easy to find a well written article. It’s not always easy to find a well written article with genuine value. That’s because the Internet has nearly limitless value — you can use it to look up the correct spelling of a word, or to translate text between languages, or even figure out “what’s the name of that guy from that movie who was in that other movie?” You can also use the Internet to go shopping while at home, or do job searching while at work, or publish blog entries while on vacation. Taking it to the next level, you can use the Internet to interact with people, make new friends around the world, or research your next dating partner. What I’ve discovered to be most surprising, though, is that the Internet contains life-altering advice. Regardless of this, most people don’t think to seek it out. For this reason, I’ve compiled the following list of articles containing value so profound that they literally changed my life. #1 – Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address