Event Schedule
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Wednesday, October 28th 2009
Youth Power: Speaking for the Future
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Youth are an often overlooked, sometimes hard to reach constituency, but one that (as the “youthquake” of the presidential election proved) has the ability to activate great social change. Not only do they represent a whole new generation of makers, doers and thinkers, they are a critical mass of [...]
Show and Tell PDX: What Are You Doing to Change the World?
What are you doing to change the world?
Substance and Pinch are presenting the third Show & Tell PDX event as part of the larger New Communicators series of events. And in the spirit of the New Communicators, this go-round gives the floor over to the people and companies who are changing the world, not simply [...]
Social Media Etiquette – We’ve got the technology, now what?
Social media technology continues to evolve by leaps and bounds. New applications are developed and released on a regular basis, all for the purpose of helping us communicate even more often when we already do, and for creating a tighter social web.
We’ve got the technology. Now what? This discussion focuses on what the etiquette is [...]
Thursday, October 29th 2009
Creating Conversations through the Love of Bicycles
There are many people who love bicycles. But how many can take this love and turn it into a business? And once they’ve started their cycling-related business, how do they engage their audience, market and brand their company?
Join us for a conversation with a group of cyclists who are creating conversations through their love of [...]
The Church of Social Media
Gather ‘round brothers and sisters to testify your love for social media and how it has touched your life. We will be meeting in the Open Space at AIPD to let everyone know just how awesome and amazing social media is, and that we don’t care who knows it. Leave all your worries about [...]
coming@party
From digital anonymity to personal interactions and maybe make some new friends in the process. All you need is a Twitter ID, a laptop or tweet-capable phone, and an open mind. Here’s how it will go down.
1. Share a piece of yourself
Post a link to your Twitter account (or any other method you’d like [...]
Beyond Distraction: Millennials, Social Media, and Education
While marketers scramble to grab the attention of young minds through social media channels, teachers are left scratching their heads. What is a teacher to do in this age of the Internet? Dan Chapman is a teacher and assistant department director for the Web Design and Interactive Media program at the Art Institute of Portland, [...]
Mid-Point Mixer hosted by Struck/Axiom and Simler
Learn more about Simler (the smoothest, prettiest and, well, best online social network of all time!) while checking out Struck/Axiom’s new Old Town studio. We’ll provide the drinks, food, Guitar Hero World Tour, Halo and the ping pong table. You bring your friends. It’ll be new communication all mashed up with old-school chit-chat.
Struck/Axiom is a [...]
The Interactive Open
Open Source, Open Content, Open Invitation – this event invites interactive artists to remix and reimagine the animated film Sita Sings the Blues as a standalone art piece, focused on the theme of ‘Conversations’. The finished pieces will be available for hands-on play and discovery, and the source code freely downloadable.
As an attendee, you will [...]
Friday, October 30th 2009
Art is War: Reinventing the Art Sales System with New Media
Hazel Dooney is a fine art painter from Australia. She has declared open war on the art gallery system, and she’s winning. She sells her work directly to her fans and she does it mostly through her website and social media, coupled with live showings outside of gallery spaces.
Earlier this year Amanda Palmer of the [...]
10,000 Invitations: A roundtable on arts institutions and new/social media
Hosted by Lisa Radon who blogs for Portland Monthly as the Culturephile.
Good minds from Portland arts institutions share the ways they’re using new and social media to engage audiences.
The Portland Art Museum creates conversational videos about works in the collection, creates a community website for its China Design Now exhibition, and tweets as M.C. Escher. [...]