Web 2.0 is about more than information. It is connecting people

Michael Wesch has had done some amazing videos in the past. (Check these out:  Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us and A Vision of Students Today  In this talk, he explains social media in an engaging and understandable manner.

Highlights:

• Connections between Communication--Thoughtfulness--Empathy
• When media changes, relationships change
• The power of new media to influence business practices (example, Dove)
• The phenomenon of free hugs
• The social imagination:  the capacity to invent visions of what should be and could be in our deficient society--Maxine Greene
• Digital citizenship--making a better world
• Tensions between good and not so good
• It is ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate and publish