http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/31/socially-speaking-the-state-of-the-planet/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/31/socially-speaking-the-state-of-the-planet/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:29:34 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31727 If you wanted to get a sense of the State of the Planet, you didn’t need to be at the Columbia University conference on Oct. 11. You just needed to follow #SOP2012. Six hundred people gathered at the event to think about the future of sustainable development, while 476 people sent 1,300 tweets, making about 6.2 million impressions through Twitter. And one thread running through the event was that social media is an important way to draw attention to sustainable development issues on an international platform and in a comprehensible way.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/31/socially-speaking-the-state-of-the-planet/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/02/a-cup-of-joe-for-1000/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/02/a-cup-of-joe-for-1000/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:16:04 +0000 Brian Kahn http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=22501 IRI is offering a token of thanks for helping us reach a Twitter milestone. Care to help us get there?]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/02/a-cup-of-joe-for-1000/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/04/for-the-birds/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/04/for-the-birds/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:35:22 +0000 Annie Tickell http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=11199 At the center of the CSSR’s mission is a desire to inspire discussion, be it through lectures, seminars, or interpersonal conversations. Therefore we talk, we write, we blog, and now we even tweet. No, we do not claim to have mastered the science of ornithology, but we have created a Twitter account, and hope that [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/04/for-the-birds/feed/ 0