- Jeff Lebow
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name = Jeff Lebow
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residence = USA
known_for =Community building Webcast ingPodcast ingJeff Lebow (born
August 23 ,1966 ) is awebcasting pioneer andcommunity builder and internetphilanthropist in the fields ofonline learning andnew media . Jeff is the founder ofWorldbridges and the co-founder ofEdTechTalk . He has long been an advocate of the value of live interactivewebcasting as a vehicle of social change and cross-cultural understanding. He has personally supported or actually produced over 500 webcasts and currently is the sole financial supporter of an elaborate community of communities through his companyworldbridges .Early Web Experience
Worldbridges was originally formed in 1994 as company dedicated to bringing different cultures together in productive discourse online.
Community Development
In 1997 he created his first full fledged community site at Pusanweb.com a community portal for English speaking expatriates living in
South Korea . This community evolved to include Koreabridges.com as well as a series of affiliate websites that served several large cites on the peninsula.Live Interactive Webcasting
In 2003 Jeff organized a live interactive webcast between an educational conference in
Seoul ,South Korea and 70 teachers inChina . In early 2005 Jeff co-foundedEdTechTalk which developed into an international community of educators producing 8 weekly educational webcasts on a variety of topics.ee also
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