This is the keynote that I gave at the Phi Theta Kappa Regional Conference on Friday, November 12th, 2010. The topic: The Democratization of Information- Power, Peril, and Promise! More details (including short video) here: http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2010/12/21/just-a-click-away/just-a-click-away

1. Click to play video

2. Just a click* away
*Replace “click” with text, IM, tweet, Facebook post, etc

3. DJ Waldow

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7. (results of live poll)

8. Is (Facebook)
Making Us Stupid?

9. ✴brb
✴lol
✴lmao
✴roflmao
✴lmk
✴ttyl
✴WTF
✴nsfw

13. Power

18. So you know: iReport is the way people like you report the
news. The stories in this section are not edited, fact-
checked or screened before they post. Only ones
marked 'CNN iReport' have been vetted by CNN.

20. U.S. Government Asks Twitter to Stay
Up for #IranElection Crisis

22. Peril

24. “Not everyone on the
Internet is a pedophile,
but every pedophile is
on the Internet."

25. +

27. Tyler Cl ementi

29. "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry."

30. Promise

33. Click to view video

34. “Twitter and the social
media community in
general has brought back
my faith in humanity...”

36. Tweetathon For Tanner
[Full Story]

38. Click to view video

40. Just a click* away
*Replace “click” with text, IM, tweet, Facebook post, etc

41. With great power there must
come great responsibility

42. Thanks!

43. Sources
• Is Facebook Making Us Stupid? - Convince and Convert
• OMG Beer!: Flickr - reivax
• Apple Keyboard - declanjewell
• iPhones: Flickr - ivyfield
• YouTube Logo: Wikipedia
• Ustream Logo: Wikipedia
• Iranian Flag: Wikipedia
• Classroom Chairs: Flickr - poorworkingartist
• Twitter Stream: Gawker.com
• Yelp: Flickr - joshuakaufman
• Four Square Logo - philwolff
• Spiderman: Flickr - h4ck