Geek As Citizen

Geek Catalog Update

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Sorry I wasn’t able to do an update last week, things got unexpectedly busy. But I’m back on track with a pretty wide update of places you can get your geek citizen on!

Computing

  • General
    • Coders 4 Charities – Holds regular events to rally coders to help non-profit organizations.

Fandom

  • Equality

Media

  • Equality
    • The Box Scene – A nonprofit organization focused on representation of people in media

Space

  • General
    • Planetary Society – Sponsors charities, events, advocacy, and projects to promote space exploration.

STEM

  • Equality
    • Tech Access – Nonprofit focusing on providing students of color access to STEM careers via setting expectations, providing role models, and access.

Technology

  • General
    • Beneftech – A nonprofit that focuses on accessibie technology that address social issues.

Writing

  • Literacy
    • Room To Read – An organization focused on literacy and gender equality in the developing world.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

The Latest Geek Catalog Update 8/15/2014

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Crowd Of People
Here’s our latest update to help you take your geek citizenship to the next level.

As always you can find the master list sorted by geek interest or community interest.

Comics

  • Community
    • The Hero Initiative – Being in comics can be a tough road, and this organization helps support comics creators in need.

Computing

  • Female Geeks
    • Anita Borg Institute – A historic institute to assist women in technical careers, fostering innovation by ensuring a broad range of people in technology. Provides a variety of services and ways to get involved.
  • History
    • International Internet Preservation Consortium – An international organization focusing on improving tools, standards, and practices of web archiving and preserving information. Reports, events, and memberships are available.
    • Internet Memory Foundation – A non-profit focusing on preserving the internet for heritage and cultural purposes, and develops a lot of technologies and projects. There’s opportunities to get involved.
  • Open Source
    • Rasperry Pi Foundation – It’s not just easy-to-access technology, but the Raspberry Pi foundation also promotes a variety of community and educational activities.

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STEM

  • Students
    • FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science And Technology – An international organization focusing on inspiring young people in science and technology. There’s programs, events, and plenty of ways to volunteer and get involved.
    • The Science Olympiad – An organization promoting science events – the science equivalent of track meats. With a huge amount of tournaments and resources, there’s alwys a way to get involved.

Writing

  • Literacy
    • Bring Me A Book – Serving underserved communities with portable libraries, teaching read-aloud skills, and more.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Boost The Signal: Roundup

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We want better technology, better books, and more.  It seems like criticism of what’s out there doesn’t help.  What if we try to promote good works and Boost The Signal?  A look at how you can help out.

  • Boost The Signal – Want to see better technology, comics, and movies?  Boost the Signal for good works.  The basic philosophy of the series.
  • Be The Ambassador – Want to Boost the Signal on someone and their works?  You need to be an Ambassador.
  • The Basics – Ways to help Boost The Signal most anyone can do.
  • Advanced – Ready to take it further?  Here’s a way to real dive into helping someone get seen!
  • The Professional – A fellow professional?  Here’s how to use your professional abilities to help someone’s work you want to promote.
  • The Hate Is Built In – It seems critique of media or technology and so on doesn’t work – is it possible because our hate of lousy stuff is built into culture?

 

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.