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Category Archives: Community

Clothing Cambodians children with Valley schwag

August 20, 2007 – 7:41 pm

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) [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Citizen Space | Comments (13)

Make your vote count in the N2Y2 Innovation Awards

April 9, 2007 – 11:35 pm

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 [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Citizen Space | Comments (4)

Coworking Survey

April 8, 2007 – 2:57 pm

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: [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Building Blocks, Citizen Space | Comments Off

Off to ETech

March 25, 2007 – 10:03 am

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! [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Events, Updates | Comments (2)

Tinkerbell and maintaining your mojo

February 13, 2007 – 1:24 am

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, [...]

By Chris Messina | Comments (8)

Choice words from Stewart Butterfield

January 28, 2007 – 8:58 pm

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 [...]

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Not Grow. Great.

January 4, 2007 – 9:34 am

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 very interesting characteristics. They are all utterly determined to be the best at what they do. Most have [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Bidness | Comments (5)

Unmasking Digital Identities …

December 12, 2006 – 8:17 am

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 [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Citizen Space | Comments (4)

Find your higher purpose

November 8, 2006 – 6:13 am

Something that we’ve been talking about lately is ‘higher purpose’….setting a mission and vision, not in the traditional sense of a corporate mission statement that sounds as dry as toast and inspires very little, but in the sense of doing something good for the world, beyond just what you do. The more we look at [...]

By Tara Hunt | Comments (15)

How do you measure the health of a community?

October 29, 2006 – 10:23 pm

[Juan23 on Flickr: Hellooooo Nurse] With all of the talk lately about the Ze Frank / Rocketboom numbers, I thought it would be helpful for us to jump in and talk about some of the stuff that we’ve been thinking about. You see, we deal with this issue regularly. We work with more qualitative (ie. [...]

By Tara Hunt | Also posted in Bidness, Clients | Comments (9)