Innovation: Our WIRED world
Monday, October 24th, 2011, 9:00pm EDT
Audio only
The Internet has brought our global family together in unprecedented ways. And this borderless digital sea has opened up new possibilities for communication and collaboration. John Yemma, the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, is striving to connect a global community of thoughtful people around the Monitor’s solution-oriented news. Christian Science practitioner and lecturer Robin Hoagland is asking important questions about how social media is affecting our relationships. They’ll join forces in this edition of Time4thinkers to explore “Our WIRED world” and how we can be productive and savvy digital citizens. What sites, tools and communities are you tapping into on the Web? How is it helping you stay in touch with world events? How is it distracting you or enticing you in ways you don’t feel good about? How are you and your friends using the Web to collaborate? Bring your questions, ideas and friends to our virtual table for this dynamic discussion!
Robin Hoagland is a Christian Science practitioner, lecturer, and teacher. While she had stints working in public radio, publishing, and as a freelance writer, she realized her true love was helping others through Christian Science. Being a part of the larger community has always been important to Robin. After Hurricane Katrina, her family took their hand tools and work clothes down to a hard-hit area and rolled up their sleeves for brush-clearing and salvage work. A few months later and a continent away, she sang hymns and prayed with a thriving congregation in the volatile Democratic Republic of Congo. But she’s well aware of the online community, too. Robin loves to talk to young people about real relationships in a facebook world, and the role of prayer in a postmodern world, among many other subjects.
John Yemma is the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, a global, multimedia news organization that specializes in thoughtful, humane reporting that helps readers understand the world. Under John’s editorialdirection, the 103 year-old Monitor became the first major US-based newspaper to shift from a daily print publication to a Web-first format that includes a continuously updated website, a 48-page weekly print magazine, and the digitally-delivered Daily News Briefing. He is championing The Monitor’s strategy of providing news to readers in formats that accommodate their current tastes and habits - andto develop a sustainable new-media business that supports Monitor journalism in its second century. In his very rich and dynamic career, John has served as foreign editor, Sunday editor, political editor, business editor,economics columnist, written about foreign affairs, science, education, ideas and culture, and has reported from Washington and the Middle East. He most recently led the multimedia news operation at The Boston Globe.
In June 2010, FOLIO Magazine highlighted John as a “media maverick” and in March 2009, Portfolio Magazine named him one of the top “25 Innovators in Technology” in the United States.
Ariana Herlinger is on TMC Youth’s management team and constantly strives to broaden The Mother Church’s communication with its younger contingency. She spent part of her career in West Africa where she worked for the Peace Corps. For the past five years she’s been working with college students and church communities around the world. She recently completed an MBA program with a focus on business development in Africa. Ariana is all about collaboration at the grassroots level. She has been exploring how the web empowers, and how it can help mobilize action.
