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Social Media for Business
The question of social software in businesses came up during our Strategic Management class this quarter and I wanted to share some of the ideas we discussed with the larger MCDM community. Social software implementations are popping up in the … Continue reading
The Rise of the Amateur Animator
The digital revolution in media production is dramatically changing the techniques, forms, content, and function of modern animation and is actively remixing it with other media forms so much that digitally-created animation is now nothing short of a new mode cultural production and a totally unique form of motion-graphic storytelling of its own right.
The diversity of software tools available for creating moving images on a screen has contributed to the rise of a tremendous and diverse number of styles, techniques, and looks. The multitude of distribution channels further enforced the trend of convergence towards forms more suitable for display on multiple screen sizes and configurations. Continue reading
The Potential of the Crowd – The Case of Kutiman
What you are about to see here is a week-old, mind-blowing example of data mining and passion. A talented young man by the name of Ophir Kutiel, a.k.a Kutiman, poured through the countably many videos on YouTube of people playing music, practicing instruments, jamming, or showing off their mad skills and love of music and created beautifully lyrical mash-ups that musically surpass most of these performances by a few miles.
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We all want to feel a sense of connectedness and belonging. Even when we are singing loud in the shower, we are hoping someone is listening. What Kutiman created here is an extraordinary moment of someone from the apartment next door joining in your shower-singing in a duet across the walls the separates you. Continue reading
The Search for the Elusive CC Music (Part 3/3)
Foley and soundseffects for noncommercial use in film. Resources for storytelling and film students. Continue reading
The Search for the Elusive CC Music (Part 2/3)
SoulTube is home to a small, but a unqiue and beautifully-produced collection of artists. They have licensed music to commercials, TV, and films before so they are not new to the game. Check out their site, go to the “Songs For Film” section and choose the advanced search feature. You can explore from their list of artists, pick a mood, or search for specific words in the lyrics database (kudos!). Continue reading
Watson’s CauseWired
In his timely book, CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), Tom Watson tracks the growing trend of activists creatively using online media to generate new forms of involvement, support, and fundraising. Watson presents a series of case studies and anecdotes from his personal experience to analyze networked activism and provide a set of principles, as well as a few words of caution, for effective online organizing. Continue reading
The Voter Engagement Success of Obama ’08
During the 2008 Presidential election, the Obama campaign pushed the envelope in two significant ways: they set out to change the face of the electoral map by mobilizing new and young voters; and they took the guesswork out of their resource allocation strategy to achieve that goal.
Rather than engage in the futile exercise of attempting to control an outcome from the top-down, the Obama campaign structured its efforts to model the complexities and nuances of a political campaign in a networked society the same way scientists model an ecosystem, a weather system, an immune system, or a social system–using the concept of a Complex Adaptive System. Continue reading
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