11/08: SalaamGarage receives the go-ahead to lead a trip with PeaceTrees Vietnam in 1/10. This is the first time a group of traveling photographers have been cleared to enter the Quang Tri Province Province by the Vietnamese government since the war.
Presentations + Press
(presentations given by SalaamGarage founder Amanda Koster, unless otherwise noted)
4/16/2010 @ TEDx
3/13/2010 @ SxSW (Amanda Koster + Amanda Rose of Twestival) “Citizen journalism and the little NGO that could.”
3/09/2010 @ Tertulia (Seattle, private)
3/04/2010 @ Ignite Seattle
12/2009 @ Willamette University
4/2009 @ Web 2.0 conference. “SalaamGarage: Imagine What You Can Do”
2009 @ Northeastern University Private presentation to media students.
5/12/09 HUFFINGTON POST article
SalaamGarage is in the top ten! 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media by Max Gladwell
4/09 Article by SalaamGarage trip producer Maggie Soladay on the WanderingEducators.com
Using Social Networks for Social Change
3/09: Wandering Educators features SalaamGarage Guatemala/09 Trip:
http://www.wanderingeducators.com/best/traveling/salaamgarage-guatemala.html
2/26/09: NYC SalaamGarage Party! click here to see photos!
1/20/09: T Labee and Adrian MacDonald complete a short documentary about Amanda Koster/SalaamGarage.
(still photos: Cynthia LaRowe, India video: Conrad Chavez, Kenya video “AIDS Is Knocking”: Amanda Koster)
12/10/08: Microsoft Social Computing Symposium
12/8/08: Interview with www.wanderingeducators.com “SalaamGarage” by Jessie Voigts
11/08: @ thewarrenreport.
11/08: Article in OnScreen Magazine: “The Woman Who Shot the World” by T. LaBee
11/08: SalaamGarage receives the go-ahead to lead a trip with PeaceTrees Vietnam in 1/10. This is the first time a group of traveling photographers have been cleared to enter the Quang Tri Province Province by the Vietnamese government since the war.
10/08: Interview with www.wanderingeducators.com: “Can I Come With You? Social Documentary Photography” by Jessie Voigts
9/17/08 SeanBohan blog
Salaam Garage – Amazing idea, story, presentation & effort: a piece about SalaamGarage and Amanda Koster’s talk at Gnomdex
9/08: Amanda presents SalaamGarage at Microsoft’s Social Computing Symposium
9/08: Amanda invited to present at Web 2.0 in late March/09 by O’Reilly Media.
8/8: Amanda’s Book “Can I Come With You” Published by Bennett & Hastings will be released early September 18, 2008.
8/8: 911 Media / Tajuan LaBee beings a documentary about Amanda Koster and SalaamGarage for On Screen magazine.
Stay tuned for the video doc.
8/08 Amanda Koster video at Gnomdex August 2008
8/8: www.revenews.com features SalaamGarage “Altered Vision SalaamGarage Gives Voice To Positive Content On Developing Nations“ by Angel Djambazov
8/08: Amanda presents para invitation at to speak a Gnomdex08 :
3/08: Conscious Choice Magazine features SalaamGarage: “Have Cause Will Travel” by Daysha Eaton
2/08: Chicago Tribune syndicates Cecilia Goodnow’s story.
2/08: Seattle Post Intelligencer features SalaamGarage: “Opening Eyes: Four travelers mentored by a Seattle photographer document the life-affirming work of an Indian orphanage” By Cecilia Goodnow
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