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Author Archives: Tara Hunt

Happy Birthday to Us!

Today Citizen Agency is one year old.
One year from the date that we got our official legitedness from the powers that be.
One year.  20 clients. 14 conferences. Zero debt. Two coworking spaces opened ourselves. 11 Coworking spaces opened in total (80+ in progress). 15 BarCamps (or similar *Camps) attended (lost count of how many have [...]

Citizen Agency gives tips 4 startups on CN

The overview?

Define your own success
Pick the right people
Diversity is essential
Community first
Don’t reinvent the wheel
Communicate, communicate, communicate

Full article here. Thanks Allen!

Coworking Survey

Hey everyone. If you are currently at all interested in what we are doing with Coworking, we’d love to hear from you.
I’ve put together a nifty survey to gauge what we need to do int he next while to serve everyone’s needs. If you have 10-15 free minutes, stop by and fill it out:
Take the [...]

Off to ETech

Chris and I are off to ETech this week. We are giving a workshop entitled: Community Marketing: Your Customers in Charge
Which is a bit melodramatic for the pretty nuts and bolts workshop we’ve put together.
Stay tuned, because we’ll also post the slides to Slideshare as well as the notes from the session soon!
See you [...]

Speaker Training Workshop at Citizen Space

SOLD OUT…
(planning to have more in the near future)
Do you:

have an important pitch to VC’s coming up?
need to brush up on your public speaking skills?
find networking events incredibly nerve wracking?
feel that you aren’t confidently going into job interviews?
just want to find more confidence to talk about what you are passionate about?

Well then, Speaker Training by [...]

Not Grow. Great.

From my favorite new book, Small Giants: Companies that chose to be great instead of big, that I’m in the middle of reading (and being inspired by):
Size and growth rate aside, these small giants share some [...]

Looking over the CA horizon into 2007

2006 was a pretty awesome year…launching CA in June, filling up our client roster in July, expanding to a team of 3 in October, getting our first office in November, with all sorts of little amazing things weaved in between all of that: travel, presentations, events, revelations, etc.
Of course, there are also the hard parts [...]

Unmasking Digital Identities …

Late in the office (again) after an amazing night of discussion and casual presentations by some of the most notorious digital personas I know…the discussions really made me reflect on digital identity and what it means for us and how we live. Online and offline.
To nobody’s surprise, we all had a slightly different viewpoint of [...]

Fundraising for Nonprofits with the Social Web: Kiva & Menu for Hope @ Net Tuesday

Next week at Citizen Space:
Are you looking for new fundraising models that are fun, engaging and use the social web? Come hear Matt Flannery, CEO and Co-Founder of Kiva.org, the first Web site to let anyone with a PayPal account be a “banker to the poor”, and Pim Techamuanvivit (Chez Pim) a food blogger [...]

Event: 12×5:Digital Personas Unmasked!

Tantek, being quite inspired by the need to go beyond events like this (i.e. panels of white guys) pinged Chris and I this week to suggest that we do some sort of take on online personas of our own.
This is what where we took it:
12×5:Digital Personas Unmasked!
Seriously…are you an online superhero and are begging [...]