Green Options » Max Gladwell http://greenoptions.com/tag/max-gladwell Posts tagged 'Max Gladwell' Wed, 13 May 2009 03:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 03:46:33 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/ Citizen journalism, open government, status updates, community building, information sharing, crowdsourcing, and the election of a President.

Editor’s note: This is first guest post from Max Gladwell.

Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. They’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment. And they’ll take for granted that a black man is or was President of the United States.

What’s most profound is that these represent parts of a greater whole. They represent a shift in power from centralized institutions and organizations to the People they represent. It is the evolution of democracy by way of technology, and we are all better for it.

For most of us, social media has changed our lives in some meaningful way. Collectively it is changing the world for good. Given the pace of innovation and adoption, change has become a constant. Every so often we find the need to stop and reflect on its most recent and noteworthy developments, hence the following list.

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]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/feed/ 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 19:00:45 +0000 mcmilker http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/ Editor’s note: This is guest post from Max Gladwell, founder of #EcoMonday. Rob Reed a web strategist in the green field, is the voice behind Max Gladwell and a blogger buddy of mine for a few years. I value Rob’s take on growth in the green field and his input on social media strategies.

This post is, in Rob’s words, part of a grand social media experiment  to publish the first collective, simultaneous guest blog post from Max Gladwell.  Our goal is for it be published simultaneously on 100 blogs, thus inspiring 100 simultaneous conversations from various points of view. We have more than 70 confirmed with some of the biggest and coolest in the blogosphere.

Enjoy!

Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. They’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment. And they’ll take for granted that a black man is or was President of the United States.

What’s most profound is that these represent parts of a greater whole. They represent a shift in power from centralized institutions and organizations to the People they represent. It is the evolution of democracy by way of technology, and we are all better for it.

For most of us, social media has changed our lives in some meaningful way. Collectively it is changing the world for good. Given the pace of innovation and adoption, change has become a constant. Every so often we find the need to stop and reflect on its most recent and noteworthy developments, hence the following list.

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]]> http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/feed/ 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 18:00:43 +0000 Gavin Hudson http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/ Citizen journalism, open government, status updates, community building, information sharing, crowdsourcing, and the election of a President.

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Max Gladwell.

Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. They’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment. And they’ll take for granted that a black man is or was President of the United States.

What’s most profound is that these represent parts of a greater whole. They represent a shift in power from centralized institutions and organizations to the People they represent. It is the evolution of democracy by way of technology, and we are all better for it.

For most of us, social media has changed our lives in some meaningful way. Collectively it is changing the world for good. Given the pace of innovation and adoption, change has become a constant. Every so often we find the need to stop and reflect on its most recent and noteworthy developments, hence the following list.

Please note this is not a top-10 list, nor are these listed in any particular order. It’s also incomplete. So we ask that you add to this conversation in the comments. If you’d like to Retweet this post or take the conversation to Twitter or FriendFeed, please use the hashtag #10Ways.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/12/10-ways-to-change-the-world-through-social-media/feed/ Twitter Goes Green on #EcoMonday – 100 Plus Green To Follow On On Twitter http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/01/twitter-goes-green-on-ecomonday-%e2%80%93-100-plus-green-to-follow-on-on-twitter/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/01/twitter-goes-green-on-ecomonday-%e2%80%93-100-plus-green-to-follow-on-on-twitter/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 13:09:28 +0000 mcmilker http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/05/01/twitter-goes-green-on-ecomonday-%e2%80%93-100-plus-green-to-follow-on-on-twitter/ Last Friday I read an interesting piece on Mashable Beyond #FollowFriday: 24 Daily Twitter Memes. Memes on Twitter are hashtags to help you keep track of a topic on Twitter – #green and #greentweets are ones I commonly use in my Twitter stream, to label items that might be of interest to the green community.

Now, like popular memes on blogs, a number of Twitter memes have gone weekly. The most well known is #Followfriday. To use it Twitterers simply list some of their favorite folks to follow and add the hastags #followfriday.

My first thought after reading this article was, “Wow, wouldn’t it be great if we had a #followfriday like tag for the green community?”

Over the weekend though, while I was playing around with ideas like #sustainable saturday and #greentuesday my blogger buddy and green web strategist, Rob Reed of @maxgladwell fame came up with #EcoMonday, which appeared early Monday morning and spurred hundreds of Twitter fans to recommend their favorite green Twitter streams.

To keep the momentum going, Rob has also set up an @ecomonday account on Twitter, where you can look for the most recommended green Tweople to follow. @Ecomonday will only follow those that follow @Ecomonday and those who are recommended in the meme.

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Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Max Gladwell, of MaxGladwell.com, as a regular guest writer on sustainablog. Max Gladwell covers the nexus of social media and green living. We feel that these two trends and technological developments hold tremendous promise for improving quality of life for everyone on the planet.

If you’re reading this blog, then you’re on board with social media. There’s a good chance you belong to social networks like Facebook or MySpace. It’s likely that you Digg stories and even possible that you Twitter. These technologies and services, together with a growing number of others, make up the social web. It’s much like the regular web, but more interactive. More…social. It invites and even demands active participation from everyone. It has a global reach with viral capacity, and yet it’s bringing local communities closer together. It enables people to connect, organize, and make a difference as never before. Indeed, social media is a powerful force, one that the world’s CEOs are starting to acknowledge and take seriously.

Many entrepreneurs, activists, and marketers are leveraging the social web for positive change. In the process and by its very nature, they are giving each of us the tools to change the world and make it a better place. There are thousands of examples, which is precisely why Max Gladwell exists. Here are 10 worth exploring.

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