Back home after spending a day and a half at the Aspen Institute‘s roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement in San Francisco, where 29 thoughtful people exchanged ideas on how to use mobile devices to help citizens make a difference in their communities and in social causes. Was pleased to see two of the people I suggested — Derrick Oien and Leslie Rule — participating and was happy to meet super-smart reps from Nokia, Adobe, AT&T and a number of civic-minded mobile organizations. Also finally had a chance to meet Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube (at the right above).
The participants came up with a number of recommendations that will be coming out in book form. The folks here are doers, not just talkers. I like that.
Here are some photos I shot. And I conducted three or four short video interviews while there, so hope to post those soon.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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