The reception of In The Forest was very special… enjoy this video of the event.
In early May, there will be a Closing Tea event and the exhibit will go on a few days more beyond then. For more details, visit HereInTheForest.com.
Been looking at this visualization of my LinkedIn network the past couple of days, since I learned about the tool.
The map shows clusters of connections that I was expecting to find: Diabetes (in blue), Health 2.0 (in light blue), Nonprofit Social Media (in green)… but then, also I was able to visualize how strong my network was within certain groups more directly related to past employers (Full Sail -in orange, to the bottom left-, Ning -in yellow, to the bottom right-, Quepasa.com) and my undergrad school in Venezuela (Unimet).
It’s interesting to see the overlaps of these networks (quite strong between diabetes and nonprofit social media, through the Health 2.0 cluster). It was also interesting to see how isolated the Ning and the Full Sail clusters were from all the other ones.
Anyway, watch this video about InMaps and visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps.
An interesting (geek) video that walks you through the evolution of the Ning Content Store (by Brian McCallister, Distinguished Engineer @ Ning):
Ning Tech Talks: Brian McCallister on The Ning Content Store, Architectural Evolution from Ning on Vimeo.
One of the tree sculptures in the interactive installation "In The Forest"
“Do not touch, please!” Ever heard that phrase at an art gallery? If you have, this Earth Day (and in fact, all of April and part of May) you should come by The Art Thou Gallery on Solano Ave. in Berkeley. A group of six artists from the East Bay have created In The Forest, an installation featuring 2D and 3D sculptures of trees suspended above the gallery floor that visitors are invited to interact with. You can see an example of the sculptures in the gorgeous image above…
At In The Forest, visitors are invited to explore the exhibit through touch, sound and sight, shifting the configuration of the sculptures on the suspended tracks, altering images, video, audio recordings and even adding live sound to the installation by voicing into amplification tubes extending from above.
“Each individual is acknowledged and felt In the Forest,” said Kaitlin McSweeney, one of the installation’s creators. “We hope the exhibit will inspire visitors to consider how their presence is felt and is significant in the environments we live in every day.”
The artists all met through the 23HAM collective, and have known each other for well over a year. “The collaboration among us started many months ago. Now we are excited to see how people will interact with the installation as it continues to evolve,” said Andreina Davila, one of the other artists.
This Friday, April 22, come celebrate Earth Day between 6 and 10 pm at The Art Thou Gallery (free admission). Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and beverages, be part of the creation and support local Bay Area art and music by celebrated local bands Whiskerman and Foxtails Brigade… In The Forest.
About In the Forest
The exhibit and pieces were conceived and created by Andreina Davila (my wife, whom I am SO proud of!), Claire Tompkins, Chrysta Giffen, Drew Dara Abrams, Kaitlin McSweeney and Susanna Davy. Adam Scradam offered precious technical support.
Update (April 21, 2011): A version of this post just got published on BerkeleySide.
A while back I had read on either Dose of Digital or JohnHaydon.com about the fact that Facebook is set to automatically show ONLY posts from people who you’ve recently interacted with or interacted the most with. This is the reason why you may only be noticing that “some people haven’t updated their status on Facebook in a while” (or some pages you thought you were following are not posting any updates). They are, you are just not seeing them.
Though, this means that you will see MORE updates on your Facebook home page (and that means you may end up wasting more time on Facebook than you do now), if you want to change this, this is what you need to do:
(Thanks to this Facebook event for reminding me of this…)
No matter how good of a presenter you are, there’s something in this for you to learn…
Read the TED Commandments and rock your presentation, TED-style!
y un extra, para que se rian un poco mas: