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Some Thoughts On the Personalities At Mesh

Interesting meeting some of these folks in person. Here are my thoughts on what some of them were like, or seemed like.

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Live at Mesh 07 @ 1128h — Tom Williams and Austin Hill Keynote, Part 3

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Tom Williams — there are limits social networking and the desire for control, even when its well intentioned, over the people who use social networks. The power is recognizing that people need to, and have to be allowed to, be free.
Question: “How do you help marginalized people take advantage of these tools when they [...]

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Live at Mesh 07 @ 1117 — Tom Williams and Austin Hill Keynote, Part 2

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Tom Williams — “How do I, as an organization, inspire others?” User generated media, whether through blogs or video has immense power.
“How can you mobilize social media tools towards something positive?”

Austin Hill — Its difficult. Treesforlife.com is a good example of startups blending technology. Its important to “put the fun in functionality” — [...]

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Live at Mesh 07 @ 1057 — Tom Williams and Austin Hill Keynote, Part I

This keynote was hosted by Rob Hyndman, and was about Philanthropy 2.0.

Tom Williams was at one point Apple’s youngest employee at 15 years old; pioneered the online music industry, and in 2004 launched givingmeaning.com to mobilize energy for positive social change
Austin Hill has been founding companies for 15 years, such as zeroknowledge, now radiopoint.
On describing [...]

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