Podcasts about macon phillips

Macon Phillips joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, being an early employee at Blue State Digital, Director of Digital Strategy at The White House and founding his firm Starling Strategy.

Of the many projects Macon Phillips worked on while in DC, there were two he's particularly proud of. One was the White House petitions platform, premised on the idea that if a lot of people are excited about something, White House leadership should probably know about it and be able to respond directly. The administration received petitions on everything from online poker to building a new Death Star to topical issues like gun safety to international affairs. Another project he's proud of, from when he transitioned to the State Department after five years, is the Young African Leadership Initiative, which used technology to connect young African leaders with their peers across Africa and with folks in the U.S.. They developed training kits to unpack international priority areas and to teach about things like the difference between climate and weather, what climate change actually means, and the importance of women's leadership not just from a moral and cultural standpoint but from an economic one. It was exhilarating work that left a lasting legacy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

Our guest Macon Phillips noted, unsurprisingly given his tenure in the Obama White House, that he gets asked a lot about Barack Obama's “secret sauce” for using technology so effectively. The secret is that there wasn't really a secret as much as an underlying ethic about wanting to really understand a community. After Obama graduated from college, he spent time as a grassroots organizer on the South Side of Chicago, knocking on doors and asking people what their problems are. Macon thinks we need to be applying those same strategies today, thinking about the small steps we can take to reach out to others, even when online and in a pandemic. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

Our guest Macon Phillips shared that while never studied or planned to work on government, he found himself working on the tech team for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and ultimately going to the White House with him to try to translate the tools that had been so successful in the campaign into effective governance. Macon noted that they thought about their work in three different areas when they entered in 2009: 1. How to amplify the president's message 2. How to make the work of the White House—which can be very complicated!— more accessible to people 3. How to use technology to give people meaningful ways to participate in government --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

At this week's Round Table, s part of our series on creating healthy discourse online, Divya, Inica, and Madeline spoke with Macon Phillips, founder of Starling Strategies. Macon headed President Obama's White House's digital strategy during Obama's first term after playing a central role in the 2008 presidential campaign's pioneering use of new media and technology to mobilize supporters. Much of what he learned and applied there informs his worldview and the work he's doing today, including starting a podcast of his own called “Talk About Power.” And talk about power we did! Macon talked us through the evolutions he's seen in tech over the last dozen years and their implications. He shared the projects he's proudest of having worked on in the White House and State Department, and even shared Obama's “secret sauce” in using tech and social media. Macon named his firm after starlings because of the way the birds flock together in powerful formation, creating something greater than the sum of our parts—like democracy itself. Thank you for joining us! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

Why do some movements change the world and others fizzle out? Former U.S. officials Macon Phillips and Walter Kerr talk to the people who are challenging traditional power structures around the world, from farmers in India, to dissidents in Russia, to human rights activists in Central America, and everywhere in between. Macon and Walter break down how these groups are organizing, explain the role of tech, and explore what this means for the rest of us.

This is the end! Not really. All four of us will be back in February for the premier of Undermine. We can't wait to bring you more great conversation in 2011.This week, RJ, Brad, Jonathan, and Matt get together one last time under the "HFPod" moniker to chat about the past seven-plus years of podcasting adventures. In an unedited recording, you will get to hear how Helping Friendly Podcast episodes begin, and end—as a conversation between friends.We would like to thank the guests who have given us their time over the years: Scott Reese, Steve Olker, Rob Mitchum, Wally Holland, Craig Hillwig, Lenny Stubbe, Scott Bernstein, Scotty B Scott Bernstein, Nathan Rabin, Justin Bolognino, Matt Burnham, Kate Phillips, Wade Wilby, Chop, Allie, Drew Hitz, David Steinberg, Josh Carver, Steve Judd, Jake Sherman, Felicia, Dave Calarco, Josh Korin, Dianna Hank, Ali (hi), Graig Adler, Patrick Brannan, Adam Menzo, Steven Hyden, Tyler Curtis, Jackson Richards, CJ Ferrell, The Vic, Andy Greenberg, Zac Cohen, George, Brian Brinkman, Dave Goldstein, Dawnee, Alan Paul, Macon Phillips, Scott Ferber from The Jauntee, Andy Keathley, Ari Fink, Todd Ahrens, Justin Bruce, all of our Quick Hit guests, Myke Menio, Tom Marshall, Adam Lioz from PHRE, Shaunea Robinson, Jen Bernstein, Shelly, Marco Walsh, Jefferson Waful, Holly Bowling, Chris Pandolfi, Joel Cummins, Katy Tur, Brando Rich, Kate, Modi and Jeremy of our spirit family, Jason Ronk, Mike Ferguson, Tom Wassell, Nick Sanborn, Jon Barber, Sadler Vaden, Ben Atkind. Special thank you to Patrick, our good buddy, who gave us some amazing early episodes and so many great memories — and has been a HUGE booster of our work from the beginning. We love you all.Finally, a special thanks to our wives who not only tolerate us but also encourage us to follow through on our crazy dreams. Rachel, Jen, Kylie, Amy — thank you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 19, Macon Phillips, CARE by Hattaway Communications

Macon Phillips podcast about renewable energy with South African Mandela Washington Fellows Adele Boadzo and Tshegofatso Neeuwfan. Adele Boadzo is a clean energy activist and solar entrepreneur with over five years’ experience in Africa’s energy sector. She is passionate about delivering clean energy projects to electrify the continent and is currently a project manager at a South African solar PV company and is also the founder of Hope Rises Solar, an organization that empowers women to distribute and install solar technologies to transform their communities. Tshegofatso Neeuwfan has six years of experience working in the South African electricity supply industry. He started his career as a project engineer and now works as a senior advisor at South Africa’s national power utility company. Chief among Tshegofatso’s responsibilities is developing and implementing a gas-to-power strategy that forms part of his company’s intention to reduce emissions and introduce flexible capacity that can partner with renewables. Outside of the work context, he is the coordinator of a boys’ mentorship program that aims to expose boys from underprivileged backgrounds to positive role models, experiences, and information.

Ugandan-born Cyrus Kawalya sounds a bit coy about his past as an entertainer in the latest YALI Voices Podcast with the State Department’s Macon Phillips. He was once nicknamed “Cyrus the Virus,” known for songs like “A Menace to Society.” He was also a professional photographer who founded Vision I, an organization that offers workshops to young people who are interested in pursuing a career in film or photography. But many YALI Network members have also heard of this 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow as the man behind the #IPledgePeaceUg campaign, which many credit with playing a part in the decreased violence around Uganda’s elections in February 2015. What motivated this successful artist to change his focus from the entertainment industry to social advocacy, and transform his routine from being “a late-night person” into someone who now advocates meditation and reading? Kawalya also discusses how he uses the YALI Network to engage rising leaders across the African continent and challenge them to stand up to corruption. “I’m going to be looking at you. I want to see what you’re going to do when you get into that space,” he says.

Read the transcript and more about Raindolf on yali.state.gov: https://goo.gl/n1eKJG In 2012, a 22-year-old Ghanaian computer science student named Raindolf Owusu introduced African internet users to the Anansi Browser. It is considered Africa’s first web browser and was designed to help users with unreliable internet connections stay connected as well as use games and a web camera that can operate offline. For his creation, he has been dubbed “the Mark Zuckerberg of Accra” by Forbes Africa magazine. But as he tells the State Department’s Macon Phillips in a YALI Voices podcast, as successful and as celebrated as the browser has been been, he lives in a country where many people can’t use it because they aren’t connected to the internet. “Building a big web browser … will give you accolades and everything else, but that’s something my mother cannot use or my grandmother in the village cannot use,” he said. As founder and CEO of the software company Oasis WebSoft, Owusu wants to create products that would be more relevant to his community. For example, in Ghana, like other African countries, mobile phones are relatively cheap and nearly everyone has one. Where is he taking his talent now and what are his future plans as a young leader? Listen to the full podcast to find out.

This week, we have a good friend joining us to talk Phish and share some music. Macon Phillips is a longtime fan and has a great perspective on the music, the scene and how technology has informed the evolution of Phish. We have a fun intro conversation, and then we hop into the music. The tracks are below. If you haven't, please take our quick survey about how we can improve the podcast. Also, review us on iTunes and follow us on Twitter. Macon's Tracks (music starts around 31:00) The Horse > Silent in the Morning, 2.20.93, Atlanta, GA Roses Are Free, 12.11.97, Rochester, NY Down With Disease -> Low Rider -> Down With Disease, 11.23.97, Winston-Salem, NC After Midnight, 12.31.99, Big Cypress Chalk Dust Torture (TAB)*, 4.11.04, Winooski, VT The Mango Song, 7.26.14, Columbia, MD *w/the other members of Phish Intro/Outro Music: Alabama Shakes, Future People See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.