Networks. Timevalue. EMJ_Peppard_Rylander_April06FromValueChaintoValueNetwork.pdf (application/pdf Object) Web Subgroup - BootstrapWiki. From BootstrapWiki Bootstrap Interactive Logging Off: It was a good run After speaking with a number of you and Bijoy, I have come to the conclusion that Bootstrap Interactive has served its purpose and should wind down.
Bootstrap Interactive (formerly Web) helped fill a key role in Austin's entrepreneurial community for over five years. When Bootstrap Interactive first started, there were no coworking spaces, no Refresh, no TechRanch, many of the entrepreneurial technology meet ups were much smaller, no Social Media Club, SXSW was less than half the size… you get the picture. The long and the short is we will keep the email list available for use to help answer any questions, but we will no longer have meetings. If you're looking for still more happenings in the Austin Interactive scene check out this mind-map from ATXequation. It was an honor to have served the community and I wish all of you success in your ventures. Cheers, Marcus Marcus Mateus marcus ~at~ simplitex dot About Archives.
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids. What do we make of a boy like Thomas?
Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the highly competitive P.S. 334, the Anderson School on West 84th. Slim as they get, Thomas recently had his long sandy-blond hair cut short to look like the new James Bond (he took a photo of Daniel Craig to the barber). Unlike Bond, he prefers a uniform of cargo pants and a T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of one of his heroes: Frank Zappa. Thomas hangs out with five friends from the Anderson School. They are “the smart kids.” Since Thomas could walk, he has heard constantly that he’s smart. But as Thomas has progressed through school, this self-awareness that he’s smart hasn’t always translated into fearless confidence when attacking his schoolwork.
For instance, in the early grades, Thomas wasn’t very good at spelling, so he simply demurred from spelling out loud. Thomas is not alone. When parents praise their children’s intelligence, they believe they are providing the solution to this problem. Douglas Rushkoff on social networking and persuasion. In a recent interview with Jon Lebkowsky at WorldChanging.com, media theorist, Douglas Rushkoff, shares with us his take on the technologies of persuasion--also the name of an online course Rushkoff will be teaching at the Maybe Logic Academy.
With all of the buzz-of-late around how best to introduce advertising to social networking sites, Rushkoff offers insights on the dangers of viewing social networking with such a limited scope: I get asked all the time, "how can we get people to be more this or more that? ". . . And I think the object of the game is to get out of the mindset of "getting people to do something" and instead just create a really nice, really open invitation. and The kind of marketing you're talking about is an effort to fill in where advertising has failed. And while Rushkoff and other critics realize the possible benefits of social networking sites (especially when it comes to global communication), he offers this bit of advice as a reminder: