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- Storytellers for Good Launching this Weekend
Maybe it’s cliche for Northern California, but in addition to getting closer to safely practicing the handstands that have alluded me, a recent yoga teacher training introduced me to individuals doing notable work in media, medicine, and tattoo design (but of course). One of them was former broadcast reporter Cara Jones, who is launching a [...]
- Goetz’s “The Decision Tree” Calls for Better Health Decisions
I had read a Wired magazine article a few years ago that described early detection as the best way to beat cancer, and one of the organizations noted for advocating for imaging, The Canary Foundation, was particularly memorable (though it didn’t keep me from mis-identifying it as “Aviary” when talking with the author, writer and [...]
- SF Welcomes The[Un]Observed
I have found few online resources where it’s possible to find West African Afro beat, reflections on public transport miscommunications, and interviews with the Dame of Punk (she being designer Vivienne Westwood), and it’s not for lack of trying. As someone with undiagnosed ADHD and an affinity for the search bar, the locally based audio [...]
- International Women’s Day & Celebrating Change
International Women’s Day on Monday will bring the launch of the locally-based International Museum of Women’s newest endeavor to highlight the contributions of impactful individuals worldwide. The “Women on the Map” undertaking will invite visitors to name females who inspire them and note their locations, creating a virtual map of the communities of honorees, who [...]
- In Conversation >> “Femgineer” Poornima Vijayashanker on Second Software Startup
During Women 2.0’s recent “Will It Launch?” weekend workshop for prospective entrepreneurs, moderator Poornima Vijayashanker spoke about her decision to leave Mint.com (where she was the founding engineer) to create software for small businesses. She discussed knowing when to take a risk–including leaving Stanford grad school to start a company that was later sold to [...]
- Investment or Indentured Servitude? HUB asks Entrepreneurs
On Wednesday the community space The HUB will host The Life Investment panel to raise the question of whether speakers and participants would “sell themselves for social change”–the context being company founders who seek to offer three to six percent of their life’s earnings to raise $300K to $600K in the short term in the [...]
- Ignite Bay Area >> Watch it Live
If you’re not among the technologists, writers, engineers, designers, bicycle mechanics, urban astronomers, and violin instructors to take part in the Bay Area celebration of Global Ignite Week on Tuesday night, you can join via Livestream, follow the presentations via @IgniteBayArea and access them later on the newly launched IgniteShow.com.
This week, 15 local talks will [...]
- Global Lives Project Premier at Yerba Buena
I’m unabashedly excited about the international premier of the Global Lives Project tonight at the Yerba Buena Center. After watching some of the early footage from the library of human life experience’s “day in the life” shoots, seeing the completed videos records of ten people from around the world who represent the diversity of the [...]
- Workshop Presents Non-Traditional Fundraisers
In case screen printing parties and Bloody Mary mastering sessions aren’t enough, local space Workshop is planning two very different events over the next two weeks that are well worth creative types’ time and good intentions. The first, “Taking the Emo out of Chemo” on Friday at Thee Parkside, is a non-traditional fundraiser to cover [...]
- Digital Printing & Other Tools of Change for Publishing
The concept of content as king was a welcome one upon landing in New York late today, and the Tools of Change for Publishing conference was not a surprising source from which to hear it. Northern California companies Chronicle Books and host O’Reilly (along with Ignite co-founder Brady Forrest) were on hand to talk about [...]
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