Social Web Week Connecticut July 10 - 16, 2010 New Haven CT

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.

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Tony Heh

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#GoogleHaven 3/19/2010 Committee Meeting

Thanks for posting this on QIK!

 

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GoogleHaven Story on WTNH

Check out the great story Chris Velardi put together on our grass roots campaign!



Lots going on and many residents and local businesses stepping up to lend a hand. We have on-line videos being developed, street teams hanging ...fliers in neighborhoods, major media coverage in both TV and print media. And all the hard work of the #GoogleHaven committee to get the word out to local businesses and organizations.

We are almost at the 400-mark on our facebook group and DOUBLED our sign-ups through highspeednewhaven.com in one day! The message is getting out and people are engaged and excited.

I love it. Keep it up, we have less then two weeks to show Google how important this is to us.

We Want New Haven to be a Google Haven

Andre Yap's post this morning is a fantastic summary of what the #GoogleHaven Committee's focus will be over the next two weeks. We are using a 'no gimmicks' direct approach that will show Google why they should pick New Haven for the Google Fiber Project.

Here is our plan:

1. Focus on getting a representative for business and community organizations to fill out the long form (https://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/user/launch_exhibit_b) through targeted direct outreach over the next few weeks.
2. Drive the rest of the community to the short form at www.highspeednewhaven.com

This will allow the arts, education, technology, nonprofit and business organizations to vote on behalf of their group and include more detail that will help our case with Google while at the same time allowing a simple way for the general public to sign up and show their support through the short form on highspeednewhaven.com. This URL is also easy enough to remember as you talk it up around town.

How can you help?

• Go to www.highspeednewhaven.com and sign up.
• Sign up for the Facebook Group and SeeClickFix Case and join the discussion.
• Tweet it up!
• Print out fliers and hang them up around town.
• Spread the word! Blog about it. Talk it up at work, home and school.

How to Hide FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Any Other Application In Facebook

FarmVille and Mafia Wars are HUGELY popular on Facebook. It seems that half of my friends are literally addicted! I was finding that their updates in my live news feed was getting pretty overwhelming so I found an easy way to get rid of them.

Here are the steps:
1. Mouse over the posting that you no longer want to see
2. Click the 'Hide' link in the upper right hand corner
3. When the menu comes up click the center button to hide.
4. Enjoy a cleaner Facebook news feed :)

I put together a quick screen cast to show the steps above in action:

Bring Google Fiber To New Haven - www.highspeednewhaven.com

Today's New Haven Register has a great article on how Google is looking for a city to install ultra-high-speed gigabit internet.
Communities around the US are competing to get Google's attention.
It would be FANTASTIC if New Haven was chosen!

How can you help???

1. Join the Facebook group
2. Follow the SeeClickFix Case
3. Sign up on the City's Google Fiber site (going live Monday March 8th) Live!
4. Sign the Google Community Interest form
5. Most importantly - Spread the word! Tell your friends. Talk it up at work. Tweet it up!

www.highspeednewhaven.com has been set up to be a clearing house of information to bring New Haven together. The application is due 3/26/2010 so we only have a few weeks to rally the community. We can do this!

AUTISM AWARENESS DAY Wednesday, April 7, 2010 10 AM – Noon Hartford CT

Families and Friends of the ASD Community, come to the Capitol for our 5^th 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 7^th.  We need your support! 
 

For further information, call Lois Rosenwald at ASRC,

203 265-7717. 
 
 

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Hike upto High Rock

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?attredirects=0&d=1

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More Or Les & Fresh Kils - Pop & Chips Video (feat. Ghettosocks, Timbuktu & Uncle Fester)

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:

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90s WHUS UCONN Radio Days

The kids dug up this old cassette tape of my very last radio show back in college.

Chris Stout and I had the Friday night 2am - 6am shift! We had a blast playing what ever we wanted and mixing it up. We even had regular callers like Big John from Willimantic who was recently released from prison. He said we had a big following with the prison crowd. Ha!

I graduated in December of 1991 but continued to go up to Uconn to do our weekly radio show and of course to visit my future wife :). Our show was lodged between the Friday night weekly show - "Free Form Funkified Filth" and the Polka shows on Saturday morning.

I transferred this little snipet from the cassette. We interviewed M. Scott Holcomb Undergraduate Student Government Vice President. The quality is horrible, and the mics are totally over modulated. But hey its college radio so what do you want? I totally loved every minute of it.

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Where The Sidewalk Ends

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.

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Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too, 
Went for a ride in a flying shoe, 
"Hooray!" 
"What fun!" 
"It's time we flew!" 
Said Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.

Ickle was captain, Pickle was crew, 
And Tickle served coffee and mulligan stew 
As higher 
And higher 
And higher they flew, 
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too, 
Over the sun and beyond the blue. "
Hold on!" 
"Stay in!" 
"I hope we do!" 
Cried Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too 
Never returned to the world they knew, 
And nobody 
knows what's 
happened to 
Dear Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.

Written by Shel Silverstein

 (1930-1999)

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Going to the Amity High Resource Fair Tonight 6:30 to 8

This evening the Amity High School Counseling Department will be 

hosting a resource fair and panel of speakers. The presentation is 

by Spectrum Unplugged. A group of students and young adults will be 

talking about their life experiences and growing up with a 

disability. It is a powerful presentation and all are invited to 

attend. The presentation will be given in the auditorium from 6:30 

to 8:00

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Bethany Winter Bon fire! Saturday 1/23/10

Bethany Volunteer Fire Department is hosting a Winter Bon Fire on Saturday, January 23rd at 6:30 p.m. located at the Recycling   Center.  They will be collecting your real Christmas trees for the bon fire.  You can drop your tree off on January 16th from 9:00am to 1:00pm at the recycling center for a $5.00 donation fee or have your tree picked up on January 16th at your curbside for $10.00.  Please call (203)393-2799 ext 484 to schedule a pick up or if you have any questions. Please leave your name, address and phone number.

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