From the draft archives: I never quite figured out how I felt to be have a quote noted as a motivational quote. 🙂
From the Archives: Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense (NO!)
From the Draft Blog Post Archives: Well, this is interesting from 2013. I think instead of helping us sense ourselves, it helps us blind ourselves to others different from us. This one has NOT aged well!
It’s like proprioception, your body’s ability to know where your limbs are. That subliminal sense of orientation is crucial for coordination: It keeps you from accidentally bumping into objects, and it makes possible amazing feats of balance and dexterity.
Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination.
via Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense.
From the Archives: #overlyhonestmethods – Why we fudge our evaluations
This is still funny ask heck. Take a peek… where do you fudge? (For those unfamiliar with the English colloquialism of “fudge” it means to fake something!) And I love that this link is still alive from 2019. Enjoy!
From the Archives: Two more friends better than two more enemies
Social Media in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.
It is encouraging to see this article from 2013 is still online, and is still relevant examining how young people from conflict areas can be connected with each other. And the risks involved. . With the current conflicts continuing in Armenia and Azerbaijan and with the emergent issues in Russia and the Ukraine. It also reminds me of the amazing work I was invited into in the Caucasus with Project Harmony, with the highs, lows and learnings. I was hopeful and naïve – I’ll own that! (More here.)
From the Archives: Almost Improvising
I’m editing this one from 2013 just before Superbowl Sunday, which is mentioned in this post. Leaving it AS IS!
“We aren’t always improvising, we are almost improvising. Then there is that moment we are actually improvising and it is all worth it.” Matt Smith, liberally misquoted by yours truly.
I spent Superbowl Sunday at an improv workshop, thinking that my avoidance of the television and a shift from American football sports to theater sports was good karma. I wanted to step further into improvisation, particularly applied improvisation (vs performance.) Little did I know that my learnings from both would intersect around the power of being ready to improvise.
I met Matt Smith last September at the Applied Improvisation Conference in a fabulous workshop he co-led with Rebecca Stockley. (The post about the workshop experience links to some good stuff by Viv McWaters also worth reading…) After AIN I realized I needed a lot more work on my own in order to weave applied improvisational approaches into my facilitation and community work. Finally, I found a day that worked for me and headed over to the beautiful Valley School (ah, I want to be 8 years old and go to school here!) with an open mind, heart and lots of questions like “how does this work in an intercultural or even multilingual contexts?”
“The big question is, what happens when everything changes, when you go off script?” Hofstetter said. “That was where it got fun.”
via How Oreo Got That Twitter Ad Up So Fast.