NatureBreak
The network for nature lovers
NatureBreak is the online wildlife video series and social network created by award-winning filmmaker and wildlife biologist Vanessa Serrao. It offers people a refreshing break from normal computer work to get in touch with whats going on in the natural world. The WiserEarth NatureBreak group is for people interested in watching and creating nature and cons ...learn more
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Created: Oct 23, 2009
Updated: Nov 12, 2009
Membership: Open
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An Online Tour of Videos About Networks
Click through the links below for an online tour of what leading thinkers in this space have to say about networks.
Add links to network-related videos you have found informative and provocative.
"Institutions vs Collaboration"--Clay Shirky, TED Talk
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
"The Tribes We Lead" -- Seth Godin, TED Talk
Author and entrepreneur Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html
"Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing US" – Mike Wesch, Kansas Sate
"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes. Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture, was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about Web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, he decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it.
