Social Good Summit Looks at Improving the World with Social Media and Technology
Social Good Summit 2012 featured many panels (Photo by Patrick Doherty) Last weekend’s Social Good Summit (SGS) brought together a vast array of thinkers, innovators, philanthropists, politicians,...
View ArticleHelp women and girls save the world
Mary Mwende, Youth Beneficiary, Global Give Back Circle (By Patrick Doherty) At last week’s Social Good Summit, many of the speakers stressed the importance of helping women and girls become more...
View ArticleNoor Iranian Film Festival
The Noor Iranian Film Festival began in 2007 as the first Iranian Film Festival competition outside of Iran. This fall was the first time the festival came to Seattle and I had the opportunity to talk...
View ArticleSeattle Interactive Conference brings in the Gamechangers
Next Monday and Tuesday, October 29th and 30th, is the second annual Seattle Interactive Conference. We spoke with Brian Rauschenbach, curator and founder of the event, to get the skinny on what to...
View ArticleStartup Weekend Seattle Edu final pitches: 300 seconds to share your idea
Startup Weekend Seattle participants hard at work (Photo by Deric D’souza) Startup Weekend Seattle kicked off Friday night at the Evergreen School in Shoreline. As part of the global Startup Weekend...
View ArticleEvery story has a neighborhood, every neighborhood has a story
Every story has a neighborhood, every neighborhood has a story… The Story Runs Through It – Neighborhood Film Project culminated The Next Fifty’s Civic Action month through a project that encouraged...
View ArticleElan Lee: The Audience is Ours to Lose
Photo of Elan Lee Of all the panels at Seattle Interactive Conference 2012, Elan Lee’s “Storytelling; the Audience is Ours to Lose” was the one I was looking forward to the most. Some might say that is...
View ArticlePresentation Practice and Interdisciplinary Work at Scholars’ Studio
College is much more enjoyable the second time around. That was all I could think as I sat at Scholars’ Studio – the interdisciplinary TED style lightning talks hosted by the Research Commons in UW’s...
View ArticleReady, Set, Startup- Startup Weekend UW Underway
Competition is on a lot of people’s minds with the upcoming Superbowl and the recent start of the long-awaited NHL season, but this weekend there is another competition going on near the UW that has...
View ArticleStartup Weekend UW : Entrepreneurship + Fun = Magic
It may have been a gray and dreary weekend outdoors in Seattle, but inside Adler Hall at the University of Washington campus the electrical energy of young entrepreneurial talent was tangible. Startup...
View ArticleClosing the gap between people and governments – Jorge Soto
Jorge Soto On Thursday evening, an attentive clutch of MCDM faculty and students gathered in the private lounge at Capitol Hill’s Liberty Bar to hear Jorge Soto’s story of how he and partner Oscar...
View ArticleTwitter- The Real Super Bowl Winner
I will be honest, I spent almost the entire game glued to my phone reading tweets out loud to the rest of the people at the party or making comments in tweet form myself. Apparently so did a lot of...
View Articlein-nw : How Digital We Are
We’re all about stretching our networks via every available technology in this information age. But occasionally we’re so curious, so enchanted, or perhaps overwhelmed by it all – that the only relief...
View ArticleComing Up- News from the Flip the Media Team
We don’t do this often here at Flip, but with so many great things coming up we thought we would take a moment to give our readers a sneak peek into the future. There are some big things on the horizon...
View Articlein-NW: Transmedia Matters
“Content across platforms, engagement across platforms. ‘Transmedia storytelling’ is absolutely crucial.” –Hanson Hosein, Director of UW’s MCDM program At the in-nw conference February 13th, we heard...
View ArticleCodeday- Bringing Together Students and Programers
Participants at Codeday Seattle work & chat with each other during the fourth hour of the event in the Hub.Photo by Hillary Kirby Post by Hillary Kirby “I’m wide awake!” Katy Perry croons in dulcet...
View ArticleGetting My Geek Back at Emerald City Comicon
If you’ve known me for five minutes you probably know that I am a geek. Not only that, I am proud of it. I am practically an apostle of all things geek culture: books, movies, games, series, you name...
View ArticleGetting My Geek Back at Emerald City Comicon 2013: Part 2
Halo Spartan cosplayer at ECC with a gravity hammer. Think with me for a moment about the last time you were looking for something,—and I mean frantically looking for something—and the suddenly...
View ArticleGleeks Unplugged: Artie’s Worst Social Media Memory
Yesterday’s Glee cast interview with Jennifer Jolly yielded a mix of expected and unexpected revelations from Kevin McHale, who plays long-time Glee member Artie Abrams, and Melissa Benoist, who plays...
View ArticleSXSW Wrap-Up Day 4: 3D Printing and Interstellar Travel
Want a neon green napkin ring? This gentleman will print you one in just a few minutes! (Photo by Patrick Doherty) SXSW continues to deliver a whirlwind of exhibitions, brilliant panels and insightful...
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