The Washington DC NetSquared Meetup Group – Meetup.com My friend Michael is starting a NetSquared Meetup Group in D.C. NetSquared is an San Francisco based group that believes “The community empowering capabilities of the Internet are going to transform the non-profit sector. We hope that Net2 will help direc
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S. S. Trudeau ยป Where is Google Going? My friend Scott has some ideas. Creepy, yet exciting. Our Fireplace on Flickr My apartment has a working fireplace. The Power Vision Hookup: Contest Details Some wierd Peer-2-Peer marketing project that involves 3,000 “contest” phones distributed in 20 cities, up to 1,000 free phones, free music downloads, […]
Calling all Power Vision Ambassadors
I’ve created a Google Group for participants of Sprint’s Power Vision Ambassador program. To join just click the link and tell me the name of your blog, or point me to where you blogged about joining. What do you think Sprint is trying to do with the program? How did they find your blog? I’m […]
YP4 Virtual Town Hall Tomorrow
This call I’m helping organize for YP4 will be really interesting, one of our fellows is a published author. We are excited to celebrate Black History Month with a special Town Hall Meeting conference call: Strides for Social Justice: The Struggle for Educational Equality A discussion about past struggles for educational equality and the lessons […]
Heurich House Makes CNN.com
The nonprofit organization that runs the Heurich House, which I’ve written about a couple times before, has until March 15 to raise almost $230,000 or risk defaulting on the loan they used to purchase the property. CNN.com has picked up an excellent AP story about the house, which now appears as the top link in […]
National Park Service In the Neighborhood
Ok, so I am really excited about this. As of today, the Carter G. Woodson House, located just feet from where I live in Shaw, is now owned by the National Park Service. The NPS plans to renovate the home and several adjacent homes (seen to the right) to build a visitors center and open […]
DCists Are Famous
… The nickname, of course, derives from the zoo’s much-quoted description of the panda at his July 9 birth — he was the size of “a stick of butter.” But it was two local bloggers, Catherine Andrews and her boyfriend, Tom Lee , who actually came up with the moniker. On Aug. 2, Andrews posted […]