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Category Archives: Citizen Space

Clothing Cambodians children with Valley schwag

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) [...]

Make your vote count in the N2Y2 Innovation Awards

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 [...]

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: [...]

Ma.gnolia’s birthday party at Citizen Space

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Citizen Space presents: CITICINEMA!

Beginning Friday, November 24, we’ll be holding post-work (5-7pm) movie nights at Citizen Space. This BYOB, popcorn provided (just ordered this really cool old-fashioned popcorn machine), movie night will have a few geeky twists: The movies are a mystery until everyone gets there: could it be Brando in On The Waterfront? or Depp in CryBaby? [...]

Citizen Space is finally here!

Well, as of yesterday, really, we were (mostly) moved into Citizen Space: our new offices + the newest family member of the SF coworking spaces (The Hat Factory as well). There is still a wee bit of work being done on the boardroom tomorrow, but we have already had all sorts of awesome people stop [...]