NextNow Member Blog

Melanie Chartoff is one of our NextNow members in Los Angeles.  Some of you may remember her from her role on ABC FRIDAYS TV show or Parker Lewis…or Seinfeld…or Newhart.

Anyway there is a great little interview on LAtalkradio.com.  See:

http://www.latalkradio.com/images/Sheena-070810.mp3

Thanks to Ramana Rao <ramana@icurrent.com>— (another NextNow person) and his iCurrent tools for finding gems like this.— –bill

DOUG ENGELBART
Silicon Valley’s elite come out for tech awards (photo gallery)
VentureBeat – Once a year, it’s a sure bet that you can find Silicon Valley’s elite gathered all at one party. Tonight, the who’s who of the valley gathered at the …

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Once a year, it’s a sure bet that you can find Silicon Valley’s elite gathered all at one party. On Thursday night, top Valley entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the 13th annual SDForum awards event.

The SDForum, a technology-industry nonprofit, has been around for decades. Its awards are like the Oscars of tech, honoring people who it deems visionaries. This year’s event was held at the the chateau home of Kelly Porter of Woodside Capital. The place is about 90 years old. Porter bought it in 1999. He spruced it up over five years and it’s now a palatial estate that makes you feel like you’re in the midst of the French wine country. The whole point of buying it was sharing it for great events, Porter said. It was an elegant setting for the gathering of tech luminaries, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and their entourages….

Hi everyone,

I am really pleased about the the upcoming episode: we have a good one coming up.

The topic will be the impact of the Internet on education, with a focus on math education. There will be two guests.

Keith Devlin is cofounder and director of Stanford’s H-STAR Institute and cofounder of the Stanford Media X research network, but he’s perhaps best known as “the math guy” on National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition”. He’s also served as a consultant for the hit TV series “Numb3rs”. He’s received the Carl Sagan Award for Science Popularization, and has been recognized by the California State Assembly for his innovative work and longtime service in the field of mathematics. He’s written 28 books.

Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit enterprise whose goal is to provide a free world class education to anyone anywhere using short online videos to teach lessons in mathematics and other subjects. His 1200+ videos have garnered about 16,000,000 hits and received glowing testimonials from all over the world, and he was the recipient of the 2009 Tech Award in Education, given by the Tech Museum of Innovation.

Please let me know if you would like to join us at the studio – 7 pm to be audience, 5:30 pm if you want to join for dinner and help out in the show set up.

Mei Lin Fung

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Mei Lin Fung
Institute for Service Organization Excellence