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Geek Catalog Update for 9/21/2014

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Sorry I missed last week – got sick and got hammered at work and in general was miserable-busy. When I wasn’t sleeping. I did get some updates this week to the Geek Catalog – and as always check out Geek or Community focus.

Here’s what got added this week:

 

Comics

  • Literacy
    • Reading with Pictures – Promotes literacy with the use of comics in the classroom. Heavily oriented towards ways to get involved!

Space

STEM

  • Ocean Preservation
    • Oceana – An international organization focused on sealife preservation and marine issues
  • Wildlife Preservation
    • World Wildlife Fund – Focuses on preserving and protecting wildlife and related environmental and pollution issues.

Video Games

  • History
    • Video Game History Museum – A video game history museum that covers a wide variety of subjects, histories, games, and focuses
  • Military Support
    • Military Gamers – A community and support network for military and former military gamers from the US military. Promotes healthy gaming and support.

Writing

  • Writing Skills
    • Wonder Writers – A charity that promotes writing and writing skills for young people from grades K-12.

Geek Catalog Update for 8/9

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People And Profile

And the Geek Catalog project continues – and I keep finding more fascinating resources and initiatives.  I’ve written some scripts to help me out, and yes, eventually this is going to get anchored or just put into a database.

What amazes me is that I just keep finding stuff.  Things I heard of, things I didn’t hear of.  We geeks have a lot of ways to change the world.

So what’s added this week?

Computing

  • Charity
    • Little Geeks – A Canadian charity that refurbishes donated computers, and gets them to children in need.
  • Female Geeks
    • The Ada Initiative – An organization that supports women in technology, with a heavy emphasis on codes of conduct, training, and an embrace of open source.

Fans-Harry Potter

  • Charity
    • The Harry Potter Alliance – A chapter-based alliance of HP fans engaged in charitable works, with a heavy emphasis on social justice and leveraging fandom for the greater good.

General

  • Community
    • Hackerspaces.org – A site dedicated to hackerspaces, from the latest news, to tools to make one, to lists of one you can join. Great to find people of a like mind so you can work together.
  • Education
    • MIT Open Courseware – Classes available online for free – from MIT. Sadly the major way to get involved is to donate, but it’s a good cause.

Space

STEM

  • Wildlife
    • Project Noah – A software platform that brings citizen scientist together in various projects to record and preserve biodiversity and understand nature.

Writing

  • Literacy
    • Kids Need To Read – A charity promoting a culture of reading, providing books to various institutions, especially those that support disadvantaged children.

 

There you go – get active!

– 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/.

Geek Catalog Update 8/2/2014

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Open Book

What have we got added to the Geek Catalog Today?  A few specific fandoms, more science, free audio books, and more!

As always, don’t forget to check the catalog, using your Geek Focus or your Community Focus to find ways to get socially engaged as a geek!

 

Fans-Firefly

  • Charity
    • Austin Browncoats – An Austin-based group of Firefly fans deeply engaged in chairtable work, especially on women and children’s issues.

Fans-Star Wars

  • Charity
    • Cloud City Garrison – Part of the 501st Legion, a Star Wars costuming club, the Garrison is famous for their charity events. Worth inviting, being part of, and supporting!

General

  • Knowledge

STEM

  • Citizen Involvement

    • Science Cheerleader – A site focusing on Cheerleaders who chose science careers, promoting science awareness, and where the former can promote the latter, all with good humor and a serious mission.
  • Knowledge
    • Public Library of Science – An organization dedicated to making scientific work available via Open Access, and has a variety of initiatives.

Video Games

  • Persons With Disabilities
    • Able Gamers – A charity that works to improve the lives of people with disabilities through video games, including charity work, consultation with gaming companies, and more.

Writing

  • General
    • Librivox – Librivox makes free audiobooks of public domain works – using volunteers.

– 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/.