free-range social media!

January 27, 2011/ Brené Brown

This quote by Mahatma Gandhi serves as a touchstone for the faculty, staff, and students at The University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work:

"We must become the change we want to see."

I believe in this approach to change, and I try to live it (imperfectly, of course).

Recently, I've done some passionate writing on civility, bullying, and the mean-spiritedness that happens online. I think our culture is becoming a culture of cruelty and I want to do something to change that.

The Free-Range Social Media movement is about standing up and saying, "I will do my best to make my online space cruelty, cage, and copying free."

I invite you to grab a badge from the left side of my page and join us! We can be the change.

Leave your link in the comments section so we can check out your Free-Range site!

Brené Brown

Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of HoustonGraduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.

Brené is a nationally renowned speaker and has won numerous teaching awards, including the College’s Outstanding Faculty Award. Her groundbreaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and has appeared in The Washington Post,Psychology Today, and many other national media outlets.

Her 2010 TEDx Houston talk on the power of vulnerability is one of the most watched talks on TED.com, with over 6 million views. She gave the closing talk, Listening to Shame, at the 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach.

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