go small or go home

Social media archetypes are inserting themselves into time-tested traditions making it difficult to tell which came first the pumpkin or the tweet. Twitter’s “fail whale” sign for when the social networking website is over capacity carved into a pumpkin (posted by Ryan Deal on mashable.com) is a perfect example of this phenomenon.

As we fumble around with these new technologies, make mistakes, lose patience, experience hair-pulling frustration at having to “learn” newer ways of communicating, what stays in the end more than their thing-ness is how they represent tangible human needs to reach out, socialize, make our voices heard.

Not such a scary thing when it comes right down to it.

Happy Halloween!

Go Small is contributing to PR + social media activities for Resilient People + Climate Change, a unique two-day event around the theme of human resiliency in the face of climate change.

In the lead up to COP15 — United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen, December 7-18, 2009, two people, a writer and cultural mythologist, decided the time was ripe to talk about the psychological and social aspects of climate change and to use narrative, storytelling and organizational preparedness to help foster resilience in these areas.

“We are living through a planetary transition that is desperate for a new narrative,” says Michael Littrell, cultural mythologist and co-convener of the conference along with writer and Huffington Post blogger Sanjay Khanna.

Conference speakers include Glenn Albrecht, Australian environmental philosopher who will be featured in an upcoming issue of NY Times Magazine, Carl M. Hild, an expert on the impacts of climate change and public health, and a recipient of the Alaska Public Health Association’s Long-term Service Award, and Victoria Hykes Steere, Iñupiat and human rights lawyer, Alaska, U.S.

We are thrilled to be part of this event, which takes place October 21-22.