expert generalist https://expertgeneralist.com observations from the wide perspective. from shara karasic. Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:55:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Mobile Industry People on Google+ https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=675 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=675#respond Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:36:47 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=675 I’m keeping a starter list of mobile people to follow on Google+. In my social strategy role at app discovery service Appolicious, I encounter amazing mobile and app people all the time, from iOS developers to Android fans and app marketers to mobile execs. This is by no means an exhaustive list, so please add […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=675 0 675 Black and White https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=672 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=672#respond Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:19:17 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=672 When my biracial African-Caucasian son was in preschool, I picked him up one day and he said to me, “Mom, we are all beautiful.” “Yes,” I responded. “We ARE all beautiful.” Then he said, “Even if you’re brown or black or whatever color you are beautiful.” This was the first I heard him mention color. […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=672 0 672 Like the Earth Under Our Feet https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=512 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=512#respond Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:11:02 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=512 The bloody tooth hangs by a thread. It’s always shocking to see your child’s blood, even if it’s from a minor wound. Especially when the child looks up at you with wide eyes after he touches his finger to his mouth and sees red. It’s okay, I reassure him, wiping at the corners of his […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=512 0 512 Designing Social Interfaces Book: Become a User Experience Superstar https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=501 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=501#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:14:12 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=501 I was very excited last week to receive my contributor’s copy of the new O’Reilly/Yahoo! Press book, Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience. The authors are my social design heroes Christian Crumlish, the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, and Erin Malone, principal of Tangible UX and founding member […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=501 2 501 Enchanted Island (Gili Trawangan, 1990) https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=493 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=493#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:19:33 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=493 The travel guidebook claimed it was a fine swim from one Gili island to the other, and I knew I was a strong swimmer. Every day in Bali I plunged into the Java Sea, and swam far out from the black sand beach to where I could float. From the gently swaying water I would […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=493 5 493 FRONTLINE/WORLD iWitness Interview: BarCamp Swaziland https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=482 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=482#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:57:21 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=482 Our FRONTLINE/WORLD iWitness interview about BarCamp Swaziland is now up: Swaziland: The King and the Web

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=482 25 482 Two Songs https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=468 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=468#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:19:15 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=468 Msimisi, a lanky, wide-eyed 12-year-old who lives with two brothers and his grandmother on a mud-baked compound, was assigned to help me document BarCamp Swaziland. Though he had managed to hook up a solar panel to the roof of his family’s hut in order to generate electricity to power their radio, he was mystified when […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=468 56 468 The Highest HIV Rate in the World: Beyond Statistics #2 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=434 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=434#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:00:50 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=434 BarCamp Swaziland had just ended, and now it was time for the annual Facebook Party at the “Afro-Shakepearean” amphitheatre-like venue called House on Fire. The house was on fire, orange lights flickering on the walls, and house music pounding through giant speakers. DJ’s spun records, and the dancing was beginning. Most party guests had found […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=434 32 434 Rural Youth at BarCamp Swaziland https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=404 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=404#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:00:01 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=404 Katrina Heppler of envisionGood.tv and I pose with the amazing young people from rural areas who helped with BarCamp Swaziland. They were sponsored by YouthAssets.org, who empowers youth in Southern Africa through technology, especially those heading households. YouthAssets sent this group airtime via SMS on their mobile phones, which they received in their villages and […]

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]]> https://expertgeneralist.com/?feed=rss2&p=404 38 404 VIDEO: Gcina Dube on HIV/AIDS in Swaziland https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=402 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=402#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:27:53 +0000 https://expertgeneralist.com/?p=402 “It was AIDS that killed her, not the witchcraft stuff they were talking about.” We went to Hluti to visit Phindile, an 18-yr-old head-of-household who advises YouthAssets. As we were hanging out in front of the school, Gcina, a Swazi man in his twenties who works for YouthAssets and was accompanying us to the rural […]

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