Gardner-White is a sponsor of the #140Conf Detroit. I appreciate their support and their ties to the Metro Detroit community. En route to the airport on last Friday, I visited one of their stores and I have to say that I was impressed! Follow them on Twitter - @gardnerwhite and Facebook

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Posted by jeff at 08:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

David Murray (@davemurr) is just one example of the many voices and faces you can meet at #140ConfDetroit 10/20/10

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Posted by jeff at 06:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

GM / Buick is the Title sponsor of the #140ConfDetroit - 10/20/10, and I want to thank the amazing team headed by @cbarger for letting us bring this event to the Motor City.

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Posted by jeff at 11:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (13)

I’m here in Detroit for 2 days doing advance planning for the #140Conf Detroit, which will be held on October 20. Thank you GM, and thank you Chris Barger for letting me use this awesome GMC Terrain.

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Posted by jeff at 09:24 AM | Permalink

This morning I am en route to Detroit to re-connect with an amazing community that will be part of the #140Conf Detroit on October 20. This is a two-day trip starting off with a planning meeting for the October event tonight. On Thursday night, we’re having gathering of the members of the social media community of Detroit at Urbane Space, 1050 N. Adams in Birmingham, which is being sponsored by the Social Media Club of Detroit from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. I hope you will be able to join us.

I’m often asked, “Why Detroit?” As with any community, it comes down to the people. Be it the #140Conf events in New York, LA, London, Tel Aviv and Barcelona that have been held, Detroit reflects a city and its core industry- the automobile in a period of renaissance.

I think the car, especially the American car, represents an iconic blend of music and culture that defines much of who we are. Detroit also has had a huge impact on the music industry with legends from Motown who created the iconic musical forms of gospel, jazz, rhythm & blues, soul, rock and hip hop.

Detroit touches my heart and soul and I thank everyone for coming out to show the world what an amazing community you have. I also thank the GM / Buick team and Gardner-White for supporting and sponsoring our upcoming October event.

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Posted by jeff at 06:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

On Tuesday, July 20th, the #140conf NYC Cocktail Party will be taking place at Hudson Terrace. To RSVP, visit: http://140summer10.eventbrite.com/

On Tuesday, July 27th, the #140conf Boston Cocktail Party will be taking place at The Colonnade Hotel / Pool. To RSVP, visit: http://bos140summer.eventbrite.com/

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Posted by jeff at 09:26 AM | Permalink

Earlier today I finished the working draft of the schedule of the upcoming #140conf taking place in San Francisco on August 19th.

As I bring #140conf to different cities, the underlying conference is a reflection of the people of the surrounding communities. The San Francisco event’s programming personifies some of the counter-culture trends which the city created in the late ‘60’s and ‘70s – trends which took hold and shaped the minds and consciousness for an entire generation.

The #140conf San Francisco offers a unique content experience and a chance to connect with a group of people whose voices have not yet been heard from at other #140conf events. And being near Silicon Valley and slightly north into Marin County, it’s amazing to see the profiles of attendees who are looking to discover, learn and share from each other.

In San Francisco we will be once again taking a look at the effects of the real-time internet on both business and on people and will be addressing some topics areas for the first time.

While I am waiting on a few more of the invited people to confirm, please take a moment and visit: http://sf.140conf.com/schedule to get a feel and the vibe of the conference.

I hope you can join me in San Francisco on August 19th. You can register for the conference over at http://sf.140conf.com/register. "Early Bird" registration ends on July 16th.

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Posted by jeff at 06:04 AM | Permalink

On the morning of July 9th in Tel Aviv at Dizengoff Center I joined about 60 kids from StartupSeeds together with a goat for the making of this video.

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"The Mission: bringing a senior High-tech entrepreneur, accompanied with a living goat, into the heart of the busiest shopping mall in Tel-Aviv.

This is one of many special programs and projects executed by StartupSeeds.com

StartupSeeds is an Israeli youth community consists of thousands teenagers (13-18) who are passionate for advanced technology, mainly computers and internet."

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Posted by jeff at 03:03 PM | Permalink

A fun new @YoniBloch Video: Lo Kal / Lo Pashut

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Posted by jeff at 07:50 PM | Permalink

Levinsky College of Education is hosting Jeff Pulver for a guest lecture and open discussion about Twitter, real time Internet and social media in education.

"Mr. Pulver is an entrepreneur specializing in social media, Internet telephony and video. He enjoys recognizing the potential of cutting edge technologies and promoting their development to fruition. He will share with us his vision and thoughts on the future of education with respect to emerging technologies."

Program ---- Wednesday July 7th. 2010, 15 Shoshana Persitz St, Rm. 118 (Ground Floor), Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

10:45-11:00 Coffee and Mingling
11:00-13:00 Lecture and Open Discussion

Participation is free of charge. To register please contact alonabar@levinsky.ac.il.

Levinsky College of Education, founded in 1912, is the first Hebrew teacher's college in Israel. It is a leader in its field, combining academic excellence with its time-proven hands-on approach to training Israel's leaders in education.

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Posted by jeff at 09:10 AM | Permalink

The next #140conf will be taking place on July 6th at Afeka College in Tel Aviv.

There are a limited number of tickets still available.

To register for the conference, please visit: http://tlv.140conf.com

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Posted by jeff at 11:50 PM | Permalink

Tonight, during the Larry King Live Telethon "Disaster in the Gulf: How You Can Help", you can donate your voice to: The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation and United Way.

I'm happy to announce that JustCoz is working with The Nature Conservancy (@nature_org), National Widelife Federation (@NWF) and United Way (live_united) and is providing a platform for donors to donate their voice to these respective causes.

For the first time ever in a telethon, viewers will have an option to donate their voice in the form of a tweet, to each of the participating organizations:

- The Nature Conservancy
- National Wildlife Federation
- United Way:

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Posted by jeff at 05:03 PM | Permalink

Sometimes a Cause needs to raise a voice. JustCoz invites people who want to make a difference to take word-of-mouth to another level. By opting in, Causes and the people who support them, now have the ability to share in ways we never before imagined.

JustCoz, http://justcoz.org, is simple and an easy-to-use platform which empowers Causes with the ability to send out messages on twitter thru their supporters twitter accounts.

The idea behind JustCoz came about when I was watching the worldwide outpouring of support for Haiti. Growing up as a ham radio operator, I was always proud of how the ham radio community provided a platform for emergency communications and was the one group who could be counted on to get a message out when all other forms of communication failed.

Over the years, ham radio operators took it upon themselves to build a worldwide message relay network so that it was easy to take a message from one person and then rely this message to others thru a worldwide network of ham radio operators.  And then it hit me that in the world we are living in today, where twitter has become a popular platform for communicating, I realized it would be pretty cool if someone could set themselves up to rely a message on behalf of a cause whose underlying message was something they were passionate about.

Three of the founding principles behind JustCoz.org:

1. Transparency - we strive to be as invisible as possible.

2. Neutrality - we accept any cause, as long as it meets certain objective standards.

3. Trust & Privacy - we want to do everything possible to protect the supporters so that they can lend their trust, to both our platform and to their causes.

JustCoz was developed by Jeff Pulver together with Ronen Raz and Yotam Troim.

If you know of any charities, not-for-profits or NGOs who might benefit from having their voice heard from the voices of their supporters, we would appreciate it if you could point them towards JustCoz, http://justcoz.org.

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Posted by jeff at 10:59 AM | Permalink

A year ago today the first #140conf took place in New York City.

Looking back at #140conf NYC, it was one of the best days of my life. There were so many great, amazing people present. The one memory that stands out from the two days is the "conversation" that took place between Ann Curry and Rick Sanchez at CNN.

"twitter as a News Gathering Tool (part 2): (with Ann Curry (@AnnCurry) - News Anchor on NBC’s Today Show and host of Dateline NBC; Rick Sanchez (@ricksanchezcnn) - Host of the 3PM weekday edition of CNN Newsroom; Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer); Ryan Osborn (@todayshow) - Producer, NBC Today Show and Clayton Morris (@ClaytonMorris), Anchor Fox and Friends:"

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Posted by jeff at 06:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tomorrow morning I will be in Washington DC speaking at USA Today's Media 2.0 day where I will be sharing an update on "The State of NOW" one year after the first #140conf event.

For more details about USA Today's Media 2.0 Day visit: ttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/socialmedia/post/2010/05/usa-today-at-digital-capital-week/1.

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Posted by jeff at 08:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (36)