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Make Seattle (technologically) better

Posted by Stuart Maxwell on October 9, 2008 1 Comment

Deadline: October 20, 2008

While the subject of this post isn’t strictly an “event,” there is a deadline associated with it, so we’re going to bend the rules a bit.

The City of Seattle is seeking new members for a Seattle Citizens’ Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board. The full press release is available after jump, but in a nutshell, the 16-member board advises city officials on issues of community-wide interest relating to telecommunications and technology, including cable television access and community technology access. Members of the board are residents of the City of Seattle and are appointed by the mayor for 2-year terms. During their tenure, board members attend monthly meetings and may participate in a few other related events. Members are not compensated.

If you’re interested in promoting technology in Seattle and shaping city policy to get community residents better connected, this is a great opportunity. The deadline for expressing your interest is October 20. See details below for where to send your resume and cover letter.

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Six Hour Startup: Guerrilla Marketing

Posted by Justin Martenstein on January 8, 2008 Closed

Saturday, January 12th, 11:00am – 5:00pm
SoDo Saturday House
1952 1st Ave. S, Suite 5 (SoDo)

The Six Hour Startup concept has been kicking around Seattle for the last few months, with two solid projects under it’s belt: tagmindr.com and gamewrangle.com. Over the course of a Saturday afternoon a group of about 15 people or so all gather to put togther a rapid-prototype startup. You can read a bit more on the first iteration from John Cook’s article back in October.

The next Six Hour Startup session is coming up this weekend, and it’s going to be a little different: we’re going meta. I’m actually running this group and we’re focusing on the SHS web presence, or lack thereof. We want to start telling more of the SHS story, setting up a blog and maybe some other content, focusing on the goals and vision of the overall project. But by the end of the day, we intend to make a serious push of information about this new Startup project – call it Guerrilla Marketing.

This particular session is going to focus a lot less on tech and hackery and more on marketing, BizDev, general blogging and spreading ideas. So if you’re curious about Six Hour Startup, but have been nervous about your tech skills, feel free to stop by and observe for a little while. And of course if you have any useful skills along these lines, please show up as well. This is a joint venture with SoDo Saturday House, so there will be lots of people working on a whole bunch of different projects. You can get more information by signing up on the Six Hour Startup mailing list.

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