Sep

9

Review of the amuta 2.0 launch breakfast with Jeff Pulver

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It’s been over a week since we held the launch event for amuta 2.0 in the form of a breakfast in Jerusalem featuring Jeff Pulver and a panel of representatives from non-profits speaking about social media.

Thanks to everyone who schlepped to the event from all over the country and the world. We had people from the Golan, the north, the Negev, and the Tel Aviv area, and of course Jeff who was in Israel from New York. A big thank you also goes to our sponsor, The Jerusalem College of Technology and their representative Dr. Avi Kay who introduced the event, whose generous sponsorship helped make it all happen.

Here’s an overview with links and info from the event:

They blogged and wrote about it:

Photos

We posted photos from the event on the Launch Page . Jeff also uploaded photos to facebook.

Packets

We’re really sorry there weren’t enough packets for everyone. We’ve uploaded some of the packet material to the website so that you can download it. Click here to view the contents of the packet.

Write on the amuta 2.0 blog

Our blog is there for you: not only for reading, but also for you to share your wisdom and experiences with others. We’d love to publish your thoughts and ideas on marketing, managing and growing your non-profit, and every blogger gets to publish a bio at the end of their article with a link back to their site. It’s a great way to help others, AND promote your organization. To submit an article, please send it as a Word document to info@amuta20.com.

More amuta 2.0 goodness!

We’re already got a few great tentative events lined up for the next half a year:

Wednesday October 29th
How-to Hands-on Workshops
Haifa

Sunday, December 7th
Business and Non-profits: Models for Working Together
Tel Aviv

Sunday, January 4th
Peoplehood: Connecting the Jewish People
Location to be announced

Stay updated

To stay updated on future amuta 2.0 events, please sign up for the newsletter by entering your email address in the sidebar of the website.

Thanks again to everyone who came and made the event a success, and we hope to see you soon!

Aug

20

Getting ready to social network at breakfast a la Jeff Pulver

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So we’re getting closer to the launch breakfast, and we’re excited. We’re especially excited that Jeff Pulver will be there leading us in his world-famous social networking. With the creation of his social networking system, Jeff has managed to bring the world of online social media and networking to the offline, three dimensional world where people actually meet and talk to each other.

The great thing about Jeff’s system is that it gives people the opportunity to benefit from the advantages that each type of networking offers. When networking online, we can quickly get an overview of a person’s interests and personality by looking at their profile, blog posts, tag cloud on their blog, friends, etc. However, no matter how much we communicate online, we can never entirely recreate the experience of talking to a person in real life and verbally communicating.

How does this social networking work?

Below is a video in which Jeff explains how his social networking works, but here’s a quick overview:

You get a little plastic bag.

The bag has stuff in it.

It has a pen, two labels, a label sheet, and mini post-it notes.

Now, here’s what you do:

  1. You write your name and personal tagline on one label.
  2. You write your personal tag cloud on the second label. A tag cloud is “a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color.” (Wikipedia on Tag Clouds). What this means for you is that if you love fishing and do it a lot, you write “fishing” in large text. If you don’t love the color red, you write that in smaller text (or whatever). Etc.
  3. You use the label sheet for real-time tagging of other people. This means that while you’re talking to someone, write something down about that person on a label and stick it on ‘em. For example, you may find out that they are a blogger, photographer, Dad, or just plain amazing. Write it on a label, and stick it.
  4. All that’s left are the post-it notes. These are for placing on everyone’s “walls.” I actually don’t quite get this part, since things that are written on people’s walls are things that make sense to actually say with your mouth. But anyways, that’s what it’s for.

The goal? As Jeff says, it’s to break down all the other walls around you. Nice.

Here’s the video. We’ll be testing you:

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