Top 10 Tweets From Meeting of the Minds 2012
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Meeting of the Minds 2012 in San Francisco found a very active Twitter community last week when it convened at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco. Reports even circled that #motm2012 trended into the Top 10 on Twitter during the October 10th sessions. The Twitter traffic spike can be seen in the image above, and studied more closely at Topsy.com.
Here is a collection of 10 particularly insightful and retweeted comments from the #motm2012 Twitter community.
Data is the oil of the 21st century. #motm2012 @meetoftheminds
— mark gilbreath (@markgilbreath) October 10, 2012
On bottoms-up civic innovation: “Great cities are created by great people”@jay_nath #motm2012
— Story Bellows (@storybellows) October 11, 2012
“Permits are the new API for making change in our urban environment” – @jay_nath sharing #UPSF / @urbanproto at #motm2012 #cities #gov20
— Urban Prototyping (@urbanproto) October 11, 2012
We need to switch from globalization of competition to globalization of solidarity ~ quoting friend @mkusumawijaya on #MotM2012 panel
— Victor d’Allant (@dallant) October 11, 2012
Our CTO, Matt Grob, discusses plans to make #wireless networks 1,000x better over the next 10 years zd.net/VZINX8 #motm2012
— Qualcomm (@Qualcomm) October 12, 2012
#motm2012 the Mayor of San Francisco: ‘Technology has to be combined with a spirit of collaboration’. True.
— Andreas Gyllenhammar (@AndreasGyl) October 11, 2012
RT @landpolicy: Innovation without inclusion is meaningless: Leila Janah of @samasource ow.ly/enLgP The Just City at Meeting of …
— Marco Kusumawijaya (@mkusumawijaya) October 11, 2012
IBM smart cities is such a seductive vision. But “data exhaust” is disempowering. What is the place of citizens & communities? #motm2012
— mikel (@mikel) October 10, 2012
“what we need is a user interface between the city and the citizen. A flow of information” Colin Harisson #motm2012 @livablecities @cisco
— Rogier van der Heide (@rogiervdheide) October 10, 2012
Barcelona CIO mantra: want to be a city of productive neighborhoods, people live & work in same place #motm2012
— Cynthia E. Smith (@designother90) October 10, 2012
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