NASA is in the inspiration business. If you don’t know what I mean, take a trip to your local school and engage in a discussion with students. Ask them what inspires them. At the heart of most discussions, is space exploration. Read the rest of this entry »
I stumbled upon a gem this week when I was listening to Houston’s Public Radio, KUHF, on FM 88.7. They have created a 6-episode “mini-series” recounting some highlights of NASA’s history in celebration of its 50th Anniversary! The series is full of historic audio clips you may not have heard before and interviews with Mike Coats, Gene Cernan, Gene Kranz, and John Glenn - to name a few!
If you missed it, you can listen to it here. All six episodes have been posted to the website. It’s definitely worth your time!
Whew-I made it!
One full year on the job.
(NASA, I’m writing you this blog entry as a combined present for our anniversary and your 50th birthday. Even though I’m technically late on both and you might have been hoping for a more substantial present like a bouquet of tulips or a nice dinner at that fancy French restaurant in town or a pearl necklace-yeah right on my salary!-I hope you won’t use that in future arguments over which TV show we’ll watch on Tuesday nights. I’m still voting for House, for the record).
I started full-time at NASA back in August 2007, having graduated the previous May after spending five co-op tours at JSC over the previous four years. They say you usually don’t start talking to yourself or addressing the agency as your significant other for at least 10 years, so I’m thrilled to be ahead of the curve on this one.
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the KM World conference http://www.kmworld.com/kmw08/ in San Jose, California. KM stands for knowledge management. I also presented “Piloting Social Networking Inside NASA” about the NASAsphere pilot. You can find the JPL document reviewed copy of my presentation slideshare Piloting Social Networking Inside NASA
During the conference, I attended this really great keynote talk by John Kao. He is the author of Innovation Nation . He taught a popular course on the subject at the Harvard Business School for 14 years, and he has also served as a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a world recognized leading expert on the topic of innovation and in fact other countries are hiring him to help them create an innovation strategy for their respective countries. He is currently working with Finland and has worked with leaders in Shanghi. This is exactly one of his points everyone else is creating an innovation strategy except the US.
A few weeks ago, NASA 360 went online at nasa.gov. The TV series, produced by Langley Research Center and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), had already seen lots of air time on broadcast television. The show appears on 900 PBS, cable, and commercial stations in the U.S., and 1,200 internationally through the Voice of America satellite system. It’s also on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and iTunes.
NASA 360 is really taking off now that it’s on nasa.gov. Within days, it broke into the top 10 most-downloaded videos. At one point this month (I haven’t checked this week) the program was the No. 1 downloaded video on nasa.gov. Along the way, the program has earned a slew of awards, including an Emmy nomination.
Have you seen the three video’s made by COOP’s at NASA? If not, you need to check them out (visit the reelNASA youTube page: http://www.youtube.com/reelnasa
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