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For the third time, I was granted the great honor to present an award at the Philly Geek Awards this past Saturday.
I put together some wrap coverage of the event here. Find previous presenting here.
Watch my presentation below (thanks SACM!).
Tag: speaking
Judge your social media identity by whether you’d want to hang with yourself at a bar [Knight event]
I’m only as good as my audience is — if they’re the audience you want to know about your work and I have more of them than you do, you want coverage from me. That’s the value proposition of media coverage as I tried to convey it on a panel discussion I was a part of yesterday.
I was proudly asked to be on a panel about media relationships at the first ever day-long Philadelphia grantee conference from the Knight Foundation. The logic was to offer some programming and bring together the 100 or so grantees that Knight has touched in Philadelphia. Held at the Barnes Foundation, I was honored enough to be in the audience, set aside speaking.
Full Disclosure, I was there because Technically Philly is a grantee — Knight was a generous support of Philly Tech Week.
Civic Innovation: my answers to 7 questions I asked this Mayors’ Innovation Summit panel
The U.S. Conference of Mayors held its annual Mayors’ Innovation Summit in Philadelphia last week, and I moderated a panel Friday morning focused on ‘civic innovation,’ a fancy phrasing for a new era of groundswell public-private partnerships growing out of technology and creative communities across the country.
As is custom, I shared beforehand some questions I wanted to ask the group, and while we didn’t get to all of them because we got into some good conversations, I figured I’d share my perspective on those questions.
5 things I told a classroom full of journalism students yesterday
There are at least five big things I’ve learned about reporting for a living over the past few years since graduating college and some stories to back it up.
That amounted to my half hour talk and Q&A period with a classroom of students at my alma mater Temple University in the PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com capstone on Monday. I called myself the ghost of the near future — having graduated in 2008.
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Philadelphia’s technology distinction: Radio Times appearance [AUDIO]
The regional distinction that the Philadelphia technology and business community is trying to carve out for itself is integral to the continued improvement of attracting and retaining talent, and that has little to do with the fool’s errand of trying to recreate itself as a far smaller, broad-based Silicon Valley copy cat.
That was among the bigger conversation topics on the hour-long Radio Times episode on which I appeared this week, along with Roseann Rosenthal of Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital and Bob Moul of Artisan mobile.
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Social media for nonprofits
I gave a presentation similar to this theme to a pair of college classes recently, one of which resulted in these takeaways.
One was at Penn and one was at Temple. I’m doing more speaking in which I’m hoping to vamp off a slide deck. These were examples of that.
8 ways to make Philadelphia more innovative: Young Involved Philadelphia presentation
The annual State of Young Philly event series from Young Involved Philadelphia featured two economy-focused events at which I spoke.
One was a series of lightning presentations last week and a second was a panel discussion Tuesday night that was followed by breakout groups.
Some takeaways below.
Philly Geek Awards 2012 presenting
My cofounder Brian Kirk and our lead reporter Juliana Reyes joined me on the stage at this second annual Philly Geek Awards to introduce two categories. As last year, it was a special event and a great opportunity to poke a little at our friends and award show organizers Geekadelphia.
Watch me do something similar at the inaugural awards last year here. See a full recap of this year’s vent here.
Junto presentation on social entrepreneurship in Philadelphia
I’m still on something of a speaking tour talking about the idea that Philadelphia has a real reason to be seen as a hub of social entrepreneurship. -Which means I need to update my slides.
This post led to this chat, which informed this event, which followed speaking at a Junto on the matter, video of which can be seen below, which was followed by still another event. And other organizations have reached out about continuing to push forward the conversation.
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Facial detection can be blocked by changing the spatial relationship of your features: notes on event with artist Adam Harvey
Facial detection can be blocked by changing the contrast of and spatial relationship between key facial features.
So, though growing a beard might throw a casual human glance off, the growing process of computerized recognition is rarely tricked, because it focuses primarily on the T made by your eyes and the bridge of your nose. You’d be better served by painting on your cheekbones like above, a discovery that was part of a masters thesis from artist and photographer Adam Harvey. Harvey does research on tricking facial detection technology.
That discovery was among the coolest lessons I took from moderating a Q&A seminar hosted by the Academy of Natural Sciences as part of the kickoff of the Philadelphia Science Festival. Called Hiding in Plain Sight, it was also one of a number of events done in partnership with the second annual Philly Tech Week, which I’m helping to organize this week.
There were others — Harvey noted that he focuses on facial detection, instead of facial recognition, because the former has to happen first. Roughly 40 people listened, if only in part, to Harvey’s compelling presentation and his answers to questions from me and the audience, seated in a crowded Frankford Hall last Friday. The major kickoff event followed.