Shira Lazar – Andy Sternberg

Society for Geek Advancement Call for Card-Carrying Members

Andy Sternberg — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:08:18 +0000

BIG GEEK UPS to Shira Lazar for writing and producing this! And if you’re in LA, perhaps I’ll see you tonight at GeekOut ’09.

Social Media / Social Good Panel at SXSW

Andy Sternberg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:40:47 +0000

The highlight of my long weekend at South by Southwest Interactive was the lunchtime panel and mixer hosted by Tikva Morowati of Porter Novelli and Jeff Pulver at Stubb’s — Social Media for the Social Good.

(l-r) Jeff Pulver, Beth Kanter, Stacey Monk, David Armano, Randi Zuckerberg, James Young, Scott Goodstein,Tikva Morowati

Many more recent studies and examples of this including this pdf white paper. Geoff Livingston is even teaching a class on Social Media for Social Good at Georgetown this semester.

Below, the rough takeaway — er, walkaway by myself and Shira Lazar:

Live Earth’s 2009 Green Inaugural Ball Video Project

Andy Sternberg — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:00:35 +0000

This morning Live Earth announced its partnership with Magnify.net — and to begin with a bang — we’re putting out a call for video submissions for the 2009 Green Inaugural Ball! (Live Earth is Executive Producer). Shira Lazar came by to shoot this great promo last night — check it out for more info and ideas on how your video/film can be included in the project — the best submissions will be screened at the Green Ball hosted by Al Gore and attended by dozens of celebs, musicians (to be announced), and leaders of the environmental movement and the new green economy.

Via Live Earth’s Video site powered by Magnify.

(Click here if you wish to download the original video file to publish / share / spread the word using your preferred video platform and here to embed from Blip). You can upload your video to YouTube or any other video site you choose but please be sure to tag the video GIB09 so we can find it.

One week until the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. Six days until the 2009 Green Inaugural Ball. Less than THREE days to submit your video to the 2009 Green Inaugural Ball video project!

Please tag all videos / posts GIB09