Jeff Lebow
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| Born | August 23, 1966 |
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| Residence | USA |
| Known for | Community building Webcasting Podcasting |
Jeff Lebow (born August 23, 1966) is a webcasting pioneer and community builder and internet philanthropist in the fields of online learning and new media. Jeff is the founder of Worldbridges and the co-founder of EdTechTalk. He has long been an advocate of the value of live interactive webcasting 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 company worldbridges.
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[edit] Early Web Experience
Worldbridges was originally formed in 1994 as company dedicated to bringing different cultures together in productive discourse online.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Live Interactive Webcasting
In 2003 Jeff organized a live interactive webcast between an educational conference in Seoul, South Korea and 70 teachers in China. In early 2005 Jeff co-founded EdTechTalk which developed into an international community of educators producing 8 weekly educational webcasts on a variety of topics.
