CoachingOctober 3, 2009

Blog wisdom: 40 key facts, tips and pointers

The inside scoop from educators, activists and social media gurus at the East Bay’s first Beast Bloggers Bar Camp. Photos: Wanda Hennig This list of […]

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Lifestyle FeaturesSeptember 30, 2009

The great East Bay Beast Bloggers Bar Camp

The happening was in Oakland at Tech Liminal. So — what is the nature of The Beast?
On a Saturday morning in late July, just after a flock of white pelicans arrived for an extended stay at Lake Merritt, a group of activists, bloggers, would-be bloggers, vloggers, Twitter gurus, print journalists transitioning to the web in the age of social media, high-tech nerds, and others, gathered at Tech Liminal in Oakland for the East Bay’s first Beast Bloggers Bar Camp. People at the event, hosted by journalism micro-funding project Spot.Us, Oakland technical hotspot and salon Tech Liminal and Oakland’s must-read independent politics and development blog, A Better Oakland had been advised to arrive: With coffee mug and a laptop (or notebook and pen); prepared to talk blogging

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CoachingJuly 30, 2009

Turn social media into nonprofit gold

You’re the marketing director of a nonprofit — or perhaps the director if it’s a smaller organization. You know you need to add social media […]

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CoachingMay 3, 2009

Yes you can Wow the World with your online presence

Ask Oakland technology guru Anca Mosoiu and she’ll show you how
Do you Twitter, Facebook and have a bunch of people following your daily blog? If not and you feel you should — or need — to know how, go speak to Anca Mosoiu in her 14th Street technology hotspot and salon in Oakland. She’s committed to leveling the playing field, teaching social networking and essential web skills to da people.

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