Networking – Future of News and Participatory Media https://partnews.mit.edu Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:51:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 “How to Talk to Strangers” : A French Figures Out https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/02/25/how-to-talk-to-strangers-a-french-figures-out/ https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/02/25/how-to-talk-to-strangers-a-french-figures-out/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:39:26 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=5942 Continue reading →]]> The very American concept of “networking” makes my French soul cry. So Monday afternoon, I decided to attend a workshop at MIT (“How to talk to strangers”), in order to understand it all better — and who knows, maybe start liking it.

In terms of format, I tried something I never did : a first person audio piece. It cost me not to take any pictures, but I did it. The whole thing took me a little more than 4 hours.

 

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