Jeff Saperstein is a marketing expert, writer, educator, and consultant to governments, companies and NGOs. Building on his contacts with people around the world, he connects experts, investors and students alike with new ideas and resources. In 2002 he wrote Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy, which focuses on a regional basis, on how innovative practices can lead to the formation of regional wealth. Jeff co-founded Traveling Geeks and will be leading the charge in London as well as a featured speaker at Reboot Britain.
Backstage Pass- Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark, founder of Craig’s list is one of the dozen Traveling Geeks on their way to London and Cambridge to find out what’s happening in social media and technology during July 2009. Craig is particularly interested in how online services are changing the way government (in the broadest sense of the word) works. See what Craig is looking forward to doing in London!
Backstage Pass- JD Lasica
JD Lasica must have superpowers to do, and see, and interview all of the people that he does in any given month! Interested in all aspects of online social media, his new site socialbrite.org is tag-lined Social Tools for Social Change. If the word tools brings up an image of shovels or software for you, forget it! This site really has quite a range. It’s way more than just profiling online tools and sites.
SocialBrite also focuses on people to organizations, showing you how to apply those online tools to support the social activities that’ll help you build your organization for social good. JD has assembled a team of a half dozen experts who will help grow this site. Hey geeks, add SocialBrite to your RSS feed reader now!
Also see:
[1] Socialbrite.org
[2] Netsquared.org
[3] JD Lasica also on socialmedia.biz
Join us July 5th, in London, for a tweetup
For my friends in the UK, if you life or work in London you might like to join the 12 Traveling Geeks (includes me) who will be at a tweet-up at Juju in London on Sunday evening July 5th (2009).
A tweetup (like “meetup”) is a face-to-face meeting of people who previously only knew each other through Twitter. For some of the well-known geeks, like Robert Scoble, who has over 95,000 followers on Twitter, this could be a big thing – Robert might be able to fill the room just with his own followers who happen to be in London that night.
Where I stand right now, at 165 followers, maybe a couple of you will know someone who’d like to meet the geeks – reserve a place in advance online.
Wireless data in London #TG2009
I’ve been informed that the Traveling Geeks will be provided with British Telecommunications [BT] OpenZone wireless connections while we’re in London in July. From what I read, BT has been building out these services for a couple of years now, and they prominently feature “outdoor” public access to wi-fi. Central London has some number of indoor hotspots and outdoor coverage areas. When I get there I’ll know better how this works in practice.
In the US, several cities have experimented with open or public wi-fi access. [Read more…]
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