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Jim Rosenberg, SVP and Chief Communications Officer at Accion, joins the Real Time Academy!

Welcome Jim Rosenberg to the Real Time Academy! With nearly 20 years of media and communications experience, Jim will join our Marketing Jury, responsible for judging our brands and organization competition. 

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Learn more about Jim below! 

ABOUT JIM ROSENBERG

Jim is the Chief Communications Officer of Accion, a global nonprofit focused on financial inclusion. He also serves as vice-chair of the alumni board at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2016, he joined the Portland Communications advisory council. In 2014 Jim was named by the Guardian as a global development tweeter to watch.

Previously, Jim was UNICEF's Chief of Digital Strategy, where he led digital transformation resulting in strong growth in reach and engagement, as well as a 2015 Webby for video. Twiplomacy named UNICEF the most effective organization of its type on Twitter.

Jim has nearly 20 years of media and communications experience. As the World Bank Group's Head of Online & Social Media, Jim played a key role to create a coherent, global approach to digital communications, introducing the Bank to a new, younger audience in emerging markets.

At the World Bank Group, Jim was also a regional web editor covering South Asia and managed outreach for the inclusive fintech program housed at CGAP.

As a journalist, Jim was an award-winning business reporter for WAMU-FM, "Marketplace," and a producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and XM Satellite Radio.

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Balinger - Fire Burning

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Un groupe prometteur : Reborn Again by Balinger (par Balingermusic)

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Lost in the Maze

The poem by Rosenberg takes complicated to the next level. At first glance it is just a mess of words put up together with connecting lines. But once we swim deeper into these cluster we see there is a connection, a rhythm to the words that are together in the clusters. I found no deeper (well... at least to what i found which was not much) connection between the clusters but after reading his essay i felt like there did not have to be any connection among the clusters. (This is a wild guess from his essay) He seems to repeat throughout the first parts of the essay that he wanted to create a poetic form that could be free of linear syntax, so he set out to create a different syntax. His linguistic creation is not a very simple one. I am a linguistics major and I had a hellish time figuring it out imagine non-linguists (or they could find it easier because they do not have the restrains of the linguistic theories.... i guess it can work both ways). He also seems to state in his essay that he wants a structure in which the words are related within the same group  but not necessarily with the adjacent or following boxes, although towards the end of the essay he does say that there is a relationship drawn by the line. The first of his ideas seem to make more sense given that the boxes within themselves have words that may relate but in comparison to the other boxes the relationship is not very clear. I tried approaching the diagrams as math equations and that was also a dead end. Especially when I tried the other diagrams because they kept getting more and more complex (or maybe staring at them too much just made them seem more complicated). In the end, all I could gather were a few images and a lot of feelings of frustration. It is a very complicated poem that needs a lot of time and i do mean A LOT of time in order to maybe be understood.  #intro2elit

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Responce to "Diagram Series 6"

Well I will start off with saying that I didn’t understand this piece of literature. The interface is kind of a good concept and got it, but what I didn’t get was what I was reading. To me it was a bunch of words put together without a coherent meaning to it. I read the whole thing twice now and still don’t understand it so I guess I will have to wait until tomorrow for the professor to shed some light about the story. Maybe then, when I re-read it I will be able to make some sense out of it.

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A Cyborg Syntax

First things first... If Rosenburg wanted us to walk away from the poem without any kind of interpretation then I would like to let him know that he can rest easy because I have no particular clue as to what I read in his "Diagram Series 6" poems. That being said I still found a lot to like in his poetry but it was more in the form of pondering the potential of this new type of syntax. Each poem made me feel like I was backwards engineering a circuit or something of the sort because not only did I not fully understand what I was doing but I had the feeling that the person who made it did. It was definitely an experience to observe this non-linear syntax in action. Exploring the space and having it react to one's movement makes for a dynamic new form of hypertext.

While reading this I couldn't help but feel excited, despite my depiction of confusion above. I was excited because I recalled my linguistic courses and the discussions of how our spoken language is the way it is because we can only produce linear strings of phones and this leads to things like a more linear syntax. I also remembered my reading of Walter J Ong's Orality and Literacy in another class with Professor Flores. The part of the text that floated around in my mind was the section in which Ong discusses how Philosophy and advanced study are possible with the arrival of the written word because spoken language is liberated from the heavy mnemonic burden it carried. This new syntax in which clusters are related to other clusters and which can dived into with a simple mouse click didn't feel like strictly human syntax; it seems to be much more than that. The structure that Rosenburg tinkers with and its resulting syntax feels more cyborg than human. This is what ultimately excites me because it speaks volumes about our interaction with the electronic medium and reaffirms my hopes in the future of the Digital Humanities.

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Diagrams Series 6 By: Jim Rosenberg

What can I say about this story, before started reading it I read the instructions to be clear on what I woud be facing with. When I started reading started to doubt on how was the structure to this story. Now, it was time for reading it. To be completely honest, I did not understand anything, started to read and I felt I was reading in another language or something, reading just words. I did not see any relation betwee one and the other, I just felt lost reading it, I am still trying to understand why is it structured that way and how do they relate to each other.