Looking back on this WTNH news piece the #getitdone crew did with Chris Velardi, it’s hard to believe what has transpired in the last week! 30 sessions in 7 days. Bringing thousands of people together. I was lucky to be at the anchor events each night and I was repeatedly blown away by the amazing people I met, the great conversations & and idea sharing that happened and the sense that we want to make the world a better place by starting right in our back yard. As I said in my interview: “The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.” has really proven itself to be true. Social Web Week has transformed the energy into action and brought virtual to reality.
This will live on beyond GoogleHaven, Social Web Week & Podcamp CT. The connections we have made have made us all better because of it.
Tonight is the 30th event. A time to look back and celebrate what we have accomplished and to look forward to the next journey on our evolving path.
Join us.

Fiona captured the launch of social web week CT!

http://qik.com/m/v/e9cbced8b08045a28c21d1fdc53c3684/dl

I wanted to post an Email that Andre Yap from Www.ripple100.com sent the Social Web Week Group this morning. He sums up my thoughts exactly. I am so excited that the #getitdone crew has been able to harness the energy that was formed from the GoogleHaven movement to make this world a better place. I have been blessed to meet each and every one of you.

“Many of us have known each other from the GoogleHaven days, and as we said then, the process is its own reward. 

Social Web Week CT is proof of that. Look at how much we can look forward to in OUR SOCIAL WEB. When it comes to us, I have stopped using THE, and instead refer to it as OUR social web – our connections, our conversations, our collaborations, our community, all the mighty things we’re getting done in days that would have taken years. It’s clear to me now that social media and technologies are only as good as what we, the community, do with them.

So, big congratulations to all of us for being part of this, Our Social Web Week CT.”. – Andre Yap @andreayap

Check out this video on YouTube:

Social web hits the streets hard connect(ing)icut

25 Events, 7 Days, 1 Week: For, With, By the People of CT


Social Web Week CT is coming to town!  A grassroots movement started with a few, turned into many individuals, businesses and organizations joining together to pull off seven days of 25 events July 10-16, 2010.  This soon to be annual week. and its events, are hosted by New Haven, but will be passed off to the next CT city during the final event.  For a full list of events visit www.socialwebCT.com.

The week is dedicated to bringing people together in CT to explore how best to use the social web to improve our quality of life.  Most events are free, open to the public and geared towards making the social Web easy to understand and enjoyable for all, not just the Techies, although there is something for them too.  

Meet every day heroes of the real and online community.

Daily themes include Destination CT, Friends & Family, Technologists & Entrepreneurs, Across the Sectors(Business, Citizenry, Community), Marketing for Marketers, Fundraiser for a CT Cause and Connecting in Connecticut.  This year’s daylong fundraiser, the Share-a-Thon, is benefiting Best Buddies of Connecticut (www.bestbuddies.org).

Bonding the people of Connecticut together in new ways, Social Web Week CT stands for: Connection, Conversation, Collaboration and Community.

Aldon used QIK to broadcast our meeting live. It is a great way to capture the discussion! Thanks for doing it!

Families and Friends of the ASD Community, come to the Capitol for our 5th annual… 
 

AUTISM AWARENESS DAY

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

10 AM – Noon

The Capitol Building

210 Capitol Avenue

Hartford, CT 

  Come have breakfast with us and meet  your legislators.  Let them know your concerns, and at the same time, support your parent advocates on their mission of improving the lives of all people with ASD in Connecticut.

The morning will include speakers from the autism community as well as legislators.  Be sure to MARK your calendar for April 7th.  We need your support! 
 

For further information, call Lois Rosenwald at ASRC,

203 265-7717. 
 
 

Talking to the dads at cub scouts about all the great hikes in Bethany. I can’t wait! Here’s one Evan and I did a few weeks ago:

 

http://sites.google.com/site/jacknorksite/Home/TrailHeadonBrooksRd.kmz?attred…

Brooks Road Trail – Bethany CT at EveryTrail
EveryTrail – Find the best Hiking near Waterbury, Connecticut

Working on my SXSW music review. But I have to get this one out there!

Rapper – More or Les is fantastic

Old Skool Rap from Canada – this song is awesome!

Check out this video on YouTube:

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.