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Pop!Tech to Bring Visionary Thought Leadership Conference and Content to the Web Camden, ME, October 18, 2007 – Pop!Tech, the well-known social innovation network and thought-leadership forum has teamed with Yahoo! to provide free online access to the renowned Pop!Tech conference for anyone with an Internet connection. For the first time, individuals worldwide are invited to participate and experience in real time Pop!Tech’s inspiring content and can join in creating positive social change in several ways: - From October 17-20, 2007 between 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM EST, individuals can visit live.poptech.org to watch streaming video of the live Pop!Tech conference hosted by Yahoo!. Additionally, visitors can submit questions to the presenters and participants, in real-time, by emailing them to questions@poptech.org.
- Visitors can also share their personal response to the question: “What is the most powerful but underappreciated way we can shape the future?” on Yahoo! Answers, the largest knowledge-sharing community on the Web. Responses to the question will include answers from various Pop!Tech presenters and will be read onstage during the conference. To answer this question or read other responses, visit Yahoo Answers.
- The popular and award-winning streaming and downloadable Pop!Tech Pop!Casts will also be available at poptech.org/popcasts yearlong, courtesy of Lexus and produced by Yahoo!.
“Making the Pop!Tech freely accessible to anyone with a computer marks a unique shift in the nature of elite conferences. The live webcast helps harness the power of everyone in achieving global social change.” added Andrew Zolli, Pop!Tech’s Curator. Pop!Tech 2007: The Human Impact, will convene October 17-20, 2007, in Camden, Maine, and will explore the influence human beings have on the world and on each other. Participants will include leading cognitive scientist and New York Times-bestselling author Steven Pinker, Grammy-award-winning R&B artist John Legend, healthcare pioneer Dr. Victoria Hale, leading humanitarian Zainab Salbi, award-winning photographer Christopher Jordan, and biotechnology pioneer Jay Keasling as well as nearly three dozen other extraordinary presenters and performers. ### About Pop!Tech Pop!Tech is a renowned social innovation network and thought leadership forum dedicated to accelerating the impact of world-changing people and ideas. The organization is known for its visionary Pop!Tech conferences, engaging media productions, and the innovative social change programs that it fosters worldwide. Visit poptech.org for more.
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