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Studio Critique: Boosting Creativity through better Feedback (full day workshop)
Posted on 15. Jun, 2007 by missrogue in Events, blog
Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:00 am PT – 5:00 pm PT
Citizen Space, San Francisco, CA
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
Net Tuesday with SlideShare and Scrapblog in Citizen Space
Posted on 29. May, 2007 by bbravo in Events, blog
Last month Citizen Space hosted NetSquared’s Net Tuesday with presentations by PulseWire and Not Just a Number.
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.
Net Tuesday at Citizen Space May 8
Posted on 01. May, 2007 by bbravo in Events, blog
Hi! I’m Britt Bravo, NetSquared‘s Community Builder. The second Tuesday of each month, social changemakers and web innovators get together at Citizen Space to network, socialize and share ideas at Net Tuesday, an event produced by NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.
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!
Another Speaker Training at Citizen Space (Apr.21)
Posted on 08. Apr, 2007 by missrogue in Events, blog
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-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) 
Ruby Hack Session
Posted on 26. Feb, 2007 by ivanoats in Events, blog
We had a great time at the San Francisco Ruby Meetup – Hack session. It’s definitely the most laptops I’ve seen here – about 35-40 programmers stopped by to code Ruby, Rails or just schmooze. Thanks to all that attended, and looking forward to seeing you all soon! Photos here
