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Jsb.civic igniteshare
1. John S. Bracken
@jsb
Insiders/Outsiders
Thursday, July 4, 13
My opening Ignite Talk at Insiders/Outsiders, the MIT Knight Civic Media Conference, 6/2313. (In Ignite style, I had 15 second per
slide.)
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By Insiders/Outsiders we don’t mean cool and uncool. We mean inside and outside of Institutions.
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We know that succeed, we need to be able to play an inside/outside game, just like the San Antonio Spurs.
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Institutions contain a lot of resources. US colleges and universities alone had endowments of $356 billion in 2010. (Fact obtained
from a reference librarian @chipublib.)
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Supporters of the status quo are waiting for you to slip up.
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Institutions face a difficult time adjusting to disruption. Kio Stark is among many to point out that schools may not always be the right
place to receive education.
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Startups are the new rock band, only they’re economic drivers.
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Outsiders have risen to positions of influence within institutions. Nate Silver brought 538.com to the New York Times; during the
week of the election he was the primary driver of traffic to the newspaper of record.
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LOL Cats founder Ben Huh debated an NBC executive on the Newshour over SOPA/PIPA legislation in early 2012. The Internet
won.
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CIA-alum Carmen Medina talked about the importance of
“corporate rebels.”
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juggernautco
Thursday, July 4, 13
From the outside, we need to do a better job helping people like Brett Goldstein, the first Chicago city commissioner to write on
windows.
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We need to help our internal change agent allies to take risks.