Aspen Ideas Festival

Say Hey to Hashtags and Handles

Susan Sawyers | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Twitter Hashtags, Twitter Handles, Twitter, Social Media Tips, Tweetdeck, Livestream, Aspen Ideas Festival, New York Times, Schools for Tomorrow, Social-Good-Summit, Mashable, 92y, Twitter News, Using Twitter, Twitter Social Events, Video, Technology News

Since social media is here to stay, event organizers who truly embrace the notion of the greater good, which is the purpose of all of this social stuff anyway, can enhance the experience by establishing and promoting twitter hashtags and handles.

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Occupy Wall Street Protestors 'Get A Life' -- Elect A President!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.23.2011

She may not know it yet, but the nation needs Sheila Bair. Her persona, her values, her experience would be an enormously timely gift to all of us.

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The Self-Absorbed Higher Ed System

Jeff Selingo | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Jobs, Aspen Ideas Festival, College, Economy, David Brooks, The Chronicle of Higher Education, College News

If the current economic crisis is teaching us anything, it's that we have a serious mismatch between the "traditional" student of today and what much of higher ed is offering.

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Bill Clinton Discusses Struggling Economy

National Journal | Ronald Brownstein | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Politics, Politics News, Aspen Ideas Festival, Economic Struggles, Bill Clinton Economy, Economy, National Journal, Business News, Aspen Ideas Festival 2011, Business, Politics News

ASPEN, Colo.--During Bill Clinton's two terms as president, the median family income increased by 14 percent, the number of Americans in poverty decli...

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Lance Armstrong, Facebook & Mashable Founders Discuss Social Media

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Aspen Ideas Festival, Mashable, Denver News, Facebook Co-Founder, Matt Flannery, Aspen News, Pete Cashmore, Aspen Colorado, Denver Colorado, Chris Hughes, Jumo, Lance Armstrong, Kiva, Colorado, Denver News

Aspen Ideas Festival hosted a handful of social media gurus that are focused on socially beneficial work to talk about the new technology and its impl...

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Aspen Ideas: Miss. Governor Haley Barbour And Chris Matthews

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 09.01.2011

Read More: Haley Barbour Chris Matthews Interview, Aspen Ideas Interviews, Governor Haley Barbour, Haley Barbour 2012, Aspen Ideas Festival, Haley Barbour, 2012 Election, Chris Matthews, Denver News

Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi was interviewed by Chris Matthews Saturday at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The conversation centered on the GOP no...

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Aspen Ideas Fest: UK Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald On U.S. Foreign Policy

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 09.01.2011

Read More: R. Nicholas Burns, Aspen Ideas Festival, Nigel Sheinwald, US and UK Relation, US Foreign Policy, Ambassador to the US, US Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Denver News

A mid-day question and answer session at the Aspen Ideas Festival featured UK ambassador to the United States Nigel Sheinwald in a question and answer...

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WATCH: Aspen Ideas Fest: Does The Supreme Court Follow The People?

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 09.01.2011

Read More: Justice O'connor, Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Aspen Ideas Festival, Supreme Court Justices, Video, Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Breyer, Stephen Breyer, Denver News

The U.S. Supreme Court has had a hefty couple years. From the 'Citizens United' ruling which opened the floodgates of corporate money in politics to ...

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WATCH: What's Next For The Internet? Twitter Founders Chime In

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Obvious Corporation, Aspen Ideas Festival, Evan Williams, Twitter, Future of the Internet, Internet-Startup Advice, Future-of-Twitter, Biz Stone, Denver News

Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the two founders of Twitter, showed up at the Aspen Ideas Fest this week in Colorado. The duo discussed the future of th...

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Bezos Scholars Program -- Incubating Big Ideas and Model Citizens -- One High School at a Time

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Bezos Scholars Program, Service Learning, Aspen Ideas Festival, Civic Engagement, Bezos Family Foundation, Aspen Institute, Song of a Citizen, High School, Serious Citizen, Education Reform, Students, Jeffrey Abelson, Education News

The bottom line is that if students don't have a visceral sense of their roles as citizens, upon graduation from high school, they're not likely to develop that sense of civic connection later.

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START-ing the "Countdown to Zero"

Andrea Jimenez Rael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspen Ideas Festival, Cia, World Security Institute, Nuclear Weapons, Valerie Plame Wilson, Aspen Institute, Start Treaty, An Inconvenient Truth, Grassroots Campaign, Nuclear Terrorism, Cold War, Non-Partisan, Global Zero, Countdown to Zero, Video, Impact News

Ever since the world first witnessed the blossoming of the mushroom cloud we've been living a constant nightmare of international terrorism. Demonstra...

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Con Games: If I Only Had A Brain At Aspen Ideas Fest

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, Sustainability, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, Calaway, Lithium, Denver News

(ASPEN, COLORADO) Somebody, somewhere and some time, came up with the idea of The Internet, and then somebody else--Sir Tim to you--came up with the i...

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Obama's Next Gulf Crisis

Daniel Silva | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspen Ideas Festival, Persian Gulf, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Gates, Middle East, President-Obama-Iran, President Obama, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Security Council, Israel, Leon Panetta, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Yousef Al-Otaiba, United Arab Emirates, World News

During this summer of fouled marshlands, the issue of Iran has receded quietly into the shadows. Obama might soon find himself longing for the days when his biggest problem was plugging a "damn hole" on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Promise of Play: A Report from the 2010 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Imagination-Playground, Aspen Ideas Festival, Darrell Hammond, Play, 7 Essential Life Skills for Kids, Let's Move, Mind in the Making, David Rockwell, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Institute of Play, kaBoom!, Impact News

There is no doubt that "play" is under appreciated, even misunderstood. So it was significant to me that the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival boldly embraced play and added a whole track to its agenda called "the promise of play."

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Con Games: Shocking Ideas for Writers in Aspen

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Guare, Aspen Writers Conference, Aspen Ideas Festival, Tobias Woolf, Books, Dana Goia, Fiction, Aspen, Janet Hirshfield, Denver News

After decamping to the Aspen Ideas Festival, I came away thinking that no one is more terrified of the future than the writer of fiction.

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Natural Gas Replacing Coal Fired Power Plants -- A Major Step Toward Diminishing CO2 Emissions

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2 Emissions, MIT Energy Intiative, MITEI Director Ernst J. Moniz, Aspen Ideas Festival, Marcellus Shale, Congress, Enviromental-Policy, Andrea Mitchell, Marvin Odum, Shale Gas, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Natural Gas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gulf Oil Spill, Energy Policy, Shell Oil, Green News

According to Shell Oil's Marvin Odum, converting from coal to gas fired electricity plants would eliminate 50% to 70% of current CO2 emissions.

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Education: Reform or Transformation? A Report from the 2010 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maker Faire, School of One, Mind in the Making, Education, Aspen Ideas Festival, MC2STEM High School, Youmedia, Impact News

The United States was once first in the world in college graduation rates, we are now 14th. Many well-known speakers from very diverse fields at see the need for educational change as a societal, economic and moral imperative

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A Twelve Year Old's Look at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Kiran Sridhar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ideas Festival, Harlem-Childrens-Zone, Aspen Ideas Festival, Education Reform, SEED School of Washington DC, Politics News

Bold initiatives, such as those highlighted at the Ideas Festival, are necessary and essential for our country to maintain its leadership position in the world. Our political establishment owes it to my generation to show true leadership now.

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A few days at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Aspen Ideas Festival, Factchecking, Journalism, Impact News

Okay, I haven't recovered yet from the Aspen Ideas Festival, too many interesting people and genuinely valuable panel sessions. I tried to do my part;...

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A Whole Bunch of Inconvenient Truths

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

At the end of the day, many of us must need villains more than we need hope, real solutions and intellectual honesty. How inconvenient.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sees Bright Future For Roe v. Wade: 'We Will Never Go Back'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ginsburg Roe v. Wade, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Roe v. Wade, Aspen Ideas Festival, Roe v. Wade, Ginsburg Aspen, Ginsburg Aspen Ideas Festival, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Aspen, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Ginsburg Aspen, Justice Ginsburg Roe v. Wade, Politics News

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 77-year-old two-time cancer survivor and nearly 17 year veteran of the high court, made an appearance at the Aspen Id...

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Aspen Ideas Festival Speakers Dinner -- What We Learned This Year

Lynda Resnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aspen Institute, Greg Mortenson, Lynda Resnick, Barbra Streisand, Aspen Ideas Festival, Niall Ferguson, Arianna Huffington, Rick Warren, Style News

Every year, my husband and I open our doors for the thought leaders in the Aspen Ideas Festival. At our dinner, I always give a little speech outlining what I have learned from the sessions I attended. Here are some highlights from this year.

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Aspen Ideas Festival: David Boies And Ted Olson On The Fight To Overturn Proposition 8 (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ben Craw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, Video, Aspen Ideas Festival, California, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Ted Olson, Prop 8, Sexual Orientation, David Boies, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

In 2000, David Boies and Ted Olson battled each other as lawyers representing opposite sides of the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore. Ten years late...

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Aspen Ideas Fest 2010: Stars Come Out For Intellectual Summit

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Aspen Ideas Festival, Jeffrey Rosen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Melody Barnes, Slidepollajax, EJ Dionne, Nicholas Kristof, Bill Gates, Famous People, Bob Schieffer, Geoffrey Canada, Roland Fryer, Eric Holder, Walter Isaacson, Denver News

Aspen has long been known as a playground for the rich and famous. During the Aspen Ideas Festival, that maxim may be more true than ever. The July ...

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What Nurtures Leaders Who Have Bold Ideas? A Report from the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greg Mortenson, Mind in the Making, Aspen Ideas Festival, Evan Williams, Sir Ken Robinson, John Guare, Marc Tucker, Biz Stone, Impact News

Let's assume that the people invited to present at the 2010 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival have important ideas to share. There are important things we can learn from their own career paths: how did they become people with "bold ideas?"

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