Please join us at Citizen Space on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008, from 6pm – 8pm for the Co-Ho-Holiday party. There will be merriment, munchies and a special guest who is know for his jolly laughter! You really don’t want to miss this.

All are welcome … family, kids, friends, and pets! The more the merrier.

Hope to see you there.

We’re apparently not so good at this blogging thing (but I guess that’s what Twitter is for), but last night we hosted Laughing Squid’s Last Minute Unholiday Party, an intimate and great time, representing many of the things that are great about the Bay Area geek/tech community… in particular the spontaneous nature of what are often constitute the best events.

Scott’s got a list of photos from the event and I can pretty confidently report that a good time was had by all.

We’re apparently not so good at this blogging thing (but I guess that’s what Twitter is for), but last night we hosted Laughing Squid’s Last Minute Unholiday Party, an intimate and great time, representing many of the things that are great about the Bay Area geek/tech community… in particular the spontaneous nature of what are often constitute the best events.

Scott’s got a list of photos from the event and I can pretty confidently report that a good time was had by all.

The group of us who run coworking spaces in San Francisco, including: Citizen Space, The Hat Factory, Sandbox Suites, The Altrupreneur Center and AF83 are really excited to be throwing a conjoint Co-Hopping Event on Thursday December 13 from 6:30-10:30 pm. We are also really excited to have Bio-Diesel Betty (aka Lindsay Hassett) entertaining us between venues in her bus with the Bamboo Floors, pillows and, what else, bio-diesel fuel.

The route map looks something like this:

And can be found on Google Maps. The event commences at Citizen Space (425 2nd Street, #300), but you could potentially begin at any of the spaces on the route and catch up with us as the bus will be making the loop throughout the evening. There will be food and drinks at each of the spaces and the event is totally free.

The night is intended to give people a flavor of the different spaces, meet the peeps who run them, find out a little more about coworking and just generally celebrate. Hope you can come out and celebrate with us!

Cost: $99

Artists and designers rely on studio critique to understand how their work resonates with others. But it’s not just artists who need to bridge the inner worlds of creativity with their audience to improve and innovate, we all do.

This workshop is an inside look at studio critique. It is a hands-on inquiry about the fundamental human practice of feedback. Find out what’s entailed in creating a safe environment so that people will share what’s on their mind productively. Walk through an evaluation framework that allows diversity to flourish. The rigor of the approach accelerates innovation and boosts morale.

Learn for yourself the how of studio critique: be guided through a proven 10 step protocol for compelling evaluation and optimized outcomes. Come away with a clear and grounded approach to giving feedback at work.

Audience:

• Creative Teams
• Product Development Professionals
• Engineers & execs who want to learn to give better feedback
• Q&A teams

In the fast-paced world of technology, we may miss the nuances of feedback. Essential for any design team, especially non-designers.

Instructor:

A thought leader on creativity, Elle Yaven provides programs on emergent research from inside the art and design studio. She has a background as a painter and is on the Graduate Design faculty at California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

Elle has been a guest presenter on making thinking visible and the studio critique at Harvard, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists), The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, The Creative Problem Solving Institute and Innovation Immersion for Fortune 500, among others.

Visit her website: www.lindayaven.com

This month our presenters will be Jonathan Boutelle, Co-founder and CTO of SlideShare, a rapidly growing site for hosting and sharing presentations, and Cindy Li, Director of Content for Scrapblog, an online scrapbooking website where you create a world for your pictures.

Come network and socialize with social changemakers and web innovators! RSVP on Upcoming or Meetup.

Refreshments are sponsored by City CarShare. City CarShare is a Bay Area nonprofit on a mission to provide convenient, affordable access to cars so that we can reduce individual car ownership” and improve the environment and quality of life in our cities.

About our presenters

Jonathan Boutelle was previously the software architect of MindCanvas, a ground-breaking research tool that uses game-like experiences for customer research. Jon likes building simple web applications that solve a real need, really well. Jonathan’s interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and customer experience. He conceived of SlideShare while he was helping to organize Delhi BarCamp. Jonathan studied Computer Science at Brown University. He writes an occasional article on his blog,

Cindy Li will be introducing how Scrapblog can promote non-profit events using her last volunteer project as an example. The volunteer project started with her love of photography and was for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society’s 20th Anniversary Ball in Washington, DC.

Thanks for hosting us again Citizen Space!

Photo Credit: Cindy Li of Scrapblog and Jonathan Boutelle of SlideShare.

Citizen Space has been nice enough to host us for many months now, and said I could let y’all know about this month’s Net Tuesday, Citizen Journalism: Not Just a Number and PulseWire, on May 8th from 6-8 PM.

Our three presenters will be Katy Newton and Sean Connelley, producers of Not Just a Number for The Oakland Tribune, and Anne-Christine d’Adesky, Director of Global Advocacy for World Pulse Magazine‘s PulseWire.

Not Just a Number is a community journalism project focused on the topic of violence and violence prevention, produced for The Oakland Tribune and their web affiliate insidebayarea.com. Last year Oakland’s homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. NJN was created to give Oakland a place to share stories and to connect and develop solutions by utilizing a variety of new media journalism tools and interactive web based technologies.

PulseWire, is an interactive website where women worldwide “even those using Internet cafes and cell phones in remote villages” can speak for themselves to the world and collaborate to solve global problems.

PulseWire is a tool designed by and for diverse users: a Sri Lankan market woman looking for new sources of micro-credit, a Zimbabwean journalist documenting a crackdown in the streets with her cell phone, or a New York business woman offering to bring school supplies to women’s groups in Cambodia.

The event is free and you can RSVP on Upcoming or Meetup. Hope to see you there!

* have an important pitch to VC’s coming up?
* need to brush up on your public speaking skills?
* find networking events incredibly nerve-racking?
* 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 Lura Dolas is exactly what you need!

Speaker Training at Citizen Space
Saturday, Apr 21, 2007 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
San Francisco, CA

About:

Instructor: Lura Dolas, Speaker Trainer Extraordinaire

Description: Whether you’re the chairman of the board or a rising star on the sales team, you have a message to convey. Your format may be a 30-second elevator pitch or a 30-minute keynote speech, a motivational address to hundreds of employees or a persuasive talk to a small group of skeptical investors. But it’s always an opportunity to present your best, most successful self.

This full-day seminar is a real deal at $99. Lura’s one-on-one rate is $150/hour. That’s almost 1/10th of her price + you will get the bonus of practicing in front of a group of peers.

(don’t worry, they are all as nervous as you)