To watch the show CLICK HERE Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved. We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into the digital divide, why we should care, and what we can do to create a society where the benefits of technological literacy are available to all. Shireen has been a geek since back in the Atari days, learning to program at age 14 and never looking back. She uses her powers for good, speaking, writing, teaching, and leading: all with the goal of helping women from underserved communities and their families reap the benefits of technology. Par-tay Bonus: We will also unveil, the Jonny s Par-tay theme rap in all it s lyrical splendor. Super Double Par-tay Bonus: We will introduce our first Jonny s Par-tay contest. The prize, a collectible mimobot a designer collectible USB flash drive. Remember when I said that I would try to make the world a better place for puppies and children? This contest is where I try to tackle the puppies part. Here are the rules: Jonny s Par-tay Adopt a Puppy at Your Local Shelter Haiku Contest, Here s how you participate: Just write an original haiku. Remember those poems you wrote in 5th grade? Yeah, one of those. It must have the word Puppy and Shelter in it, and encourage people to adopt a puppy from a shelter. Then you need to record yourself reciting the haiku onto utterz.com. Utterz is a free service which lets you record audio from your phone to the web. Once you have written the poem, send me an email at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 18, 10PM Eastern. Here is my sample adopt a puppy haiku: Here is my sample haiku: Puppies are four legged/joy dispensers, find delight/at local shelter Listen to it here: A haiku is simply a 3 line poem with this structure: 1st line: 5 syllables 2nd line: 7 syllables 3d line: 5 syllables. Be sure to email me at jonny.goldstein@gmail.com to send me the link to your poem by 10PM Eastern, Sunday, May 18. People will vote on their favorite poems on the jonnyspartay.com website until 5 PM Eastern Wednesday, May 21. The winner will receive a designer collectible USB flash drive generously donated by the fine folks at mimoco.com The winner will be announced on this coming Wednesday s, May 21, show. And if you write and record a haiku to utterz and email me the link at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 19, 10PM Eastern, I will link to your haiku whether your haiku is selected as the winner or not. Thanks for participating! And thanks for helping raise awareness around the issue of puppy adoption from shelters. What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the interactive online TV talk show, with featured guest Shireen Mitchell, host Jonny Goldstein, super-producer Scott Stead. and of course our most important guests, you. When: Weds, May 14, 9-10PM Eastern. Where: jonnyspartay.com Interactivity: As always, you are invited to text chat us and each other live. It’s a Par-tay!
