This might seem a tad peculiar, but while getting the Hot Stones treatment on our recent trip to Tucson (”The Capital of Desert Style” apparently) to attend a conference by NASCIO, a consortium of state-level CIOs, I was forced to work on my elevator pitch, or, in this case, my Hot Stones Massage Pitch for [...]
At Blogher, we sat in on a presentation by Beth Kanter on the work that she’s doing with her Cambodia For Kids project. She mentioned that she’s been collecting schwag from Web 2.0 companies and sending it to kids in Cambodia and that they love it. We’d been collecting schwag for our Citizen Loo (bathroom) [...]
A buddy of mine, Sean Coon, has been working on a project down in (relatively) rural Greensboro, North Carolina for some time called The People, Yes.
The goal of the project is founded in acting locally:
To reach out to our neighbors on the other side of the digital divide and provide the necessary training and [...]
We had a blowout time last night at Citizen Space celebrating Ma.gnolia’s one year birthday.
Enric has posted some photos and we also captured some with Tara’s laptop iSight, which were uploaded directly using FlickrBooth.
I’ve posted the Wine List to Flickr and you can also check out the related wine entries and on, (where else?) Ma.gnolia [...]
Tim Bray posted an interesting observation that I think personally resonates, given that I switched to Mac over four years ago and haven’t looked back:
Last week I spent time talking to a lot of different technology
people, from all over the world geographically and organizationally and culturally.
The conversation kept looping back to Microsoft, and to the [...]
Stewart and the Flickr folks are good friends of the Agency. They’re good people, espouse very positive principals and have learned a great deal in working on Flickr. The magazine covers and feature articles don’t hurt their popularity, but in my experience, they’ve remained just as day-to-day and unassuming as if they’d never found international [...]
Ben Metcalfe, who joined us last September as our third partner, has decided to seek out new horizons for 2007.
In his post, he writes:
It’s been a difficult decision to take, especially as I love Chris and Tara and have enjoyed working with them so much. Their genuine passion for putting the community first has been [...]
It’s always good to have heros and to be able to identify those folks whose good acts are worthy of imitation. They provide lessons to learn from, a prototype to tweak and a refreshing outlook on what’s possible.
From time to time, we’d like to chronicle those who inspire, excite and offer leadership for citizen agents [...]
Folks subscribed to our blog who haven’t checked out the solid state version at citizenagency.com/blog are in for a surprise.
You see, we’ve been trying to get our website done — designed from the ground up — covering our services and generally providing a more meaty answer to “who are you and what do you do?” [...]
Seth Godin makes some pretty good observations, including:
…the more I think about it, the more it seems that pioneers are almost never in it for the money. The smart ones figure out how to take a remarkable innovation and turn it into a living (or a bigger than big payout) but not the other way [...]