BarCamp Portland 6 is rapidly approaching as the PDX tech event season continues to wind up. We’ve attended and led discussions at many unconferences spanning both coasts over the years. This year ZS volunteered to help facilitate the crowd funding jam (Indie Video Game Showcase and Crowd …
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Help Bring Benefit Corporations To Oregon
Join The Push To Bring Accountability To PDX Businesses
This is a call to action for all Portland and Oregon business owners and business professionals! The American Sustainability Business Council has put together an online petition to push Oregon Lawmakers to take up Benefit Corporations in the short session. Take thirty seconds out of your day …
Read more →This Is OSCON – Open Source Convention 2010
OS Community Pays To Play In Portland
[This Is OSCON]
OSCON 2010 – the Open Source Convention was held from July 19th-23rd at the Oregon Convention Center in downtown PDX. As a convention that claims to be all open source and stuff we were honestly not quite sure what to expect from …
Read more →Community Leadership Summit 2010
Community Managers Converge On PDX
ZS journeyed down to the Oregon Convention Center to participate in day two the Community Leadership Summit 2010 which is a bar camp/open spaces style unconference meeting of the minds for community management and community managers. Community people flew in from as far away as …
Read more →Todd Jick – Opening General Session
Changes in Change Management: A 25 Year Retrospective on Change
Todd Jick of Columbia Business School and opened with a keynote that was a call to action and a direct challenge to change managers. Jick talked about how the …
Read more →Thanks everyone who attended or contributed to February’s #4Change Chat on the topic of Cause Fatigue, the chat was indeed interesting and lively! I had a great time moderating the twitter chat with Tomjd. This is not at complete transcript of the conversation, but …
Read more →Today is the birthday of Beth Kanter one of the foremost leaders of the nonprofit / social media communities. And how does she choose to celebrate her birthday? By giving of course! Somehow this is not a surprise at all. So it is …
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