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Great Books

These books inspire, entertain, and teach me things I want to know more about… I hope they will be nourishing resources for you as well. If you buy them through the links on this page, I get a small commission, so I invite you to go wild & totally indulge yourself!

 

“If I ran the Internet”

In one of the superb series of TED videos sponsored by BMW, performance poet Rives shares this yummy juicy poem – “If I ran the Internet”:

TED is currently sponsoring a number of videos on the subject of happiness, and what makes us happy, no doubt inspired by the ground-breaking “Happiness and Its Causes” FREE conference coming up this week in San Fransisco (don’t miss it!). One of the TED Happiness videos is of journalist Carl Honoré, talking about the slow movement, and slowness as a key to happiness.

Online Beauty: Resources

AMY’S SQUIDOO LENS

Beauty & Technology: Change the World with Online Design
A great source of tips, links, resources and inspiration!
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AMY’S DESIGN ARTICLES

Creating Your Website:
Download creating_your_website.pdf

Beyond Websites:
Download beyond_your_website.pdf

Nurturing Online Community:
Download MidwifingOnlineCommunity.pdf

Online Communications Constellation (graphic & guide):
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Download VI_ConstellationQuickGuide.pdf


AMY’S BEST BEAUTY DIALOGUES TECH POSTS

Online Culture
A New Way of Being Online – an introduction
Interconnectedness – TED Video about the internet and enlightenment, by Bob Thurman
Addicted to Technology? – Is an increasingly wired world problematic?
Credit Where Credit is Due – One of the best appreciative testimonials ever

Here’s a conversation I held on Seesmic based on the question “What’s possible now that wasn’t before in the world of online communications and social media”?

First the Question, and then the Responses, including one from online pioneer Howard Rheingold.

Authentic Voice
Authenticity – Wherein I cite Seth Godin and include an audio tape
Unbridling
– Unleashing your authentic voice
Speaking Our Lives
– The importance of sharing

Design
Design ala Pink – Design as Core Survival Skill for the 21C

Online Community
Community Technology –  Nancy White interviews me about Technology Stewardship at the World Café


MORE RESOURCES

Do you have favorite resources to support beauty online that you’d be willing to share? Add them through the comments field, below, or as feedback on my Squidoo lens. Thank you!

Interconnectedness

Wow… this interconnectedness meme is springing up all over for me these days… here is a TED video from Bob Thurman talking about how connectivity on the internet leads to enlightenment and a recognition of the interconnectedness of all beings.