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Steve’s Update 8/11/2014

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Hope everyone is doing well!  Here’s what I’ve been up to!

  • Updating the Writing Prompt Generator.  It’s now working pretty good, and I think I’ll probably take a break after awhile and declare it “done but willing to improve.”
  • More experiments on Seventh Sanctum’s Tumblr, so stay tuned . . .
  • Finished my latest article series at Muse Hack, Boost The Signal.  It’s a series on how we can spend time boosting the signal of good stuff.  Complaining, I think, may be built into the culture so it’s not effective.
  • Working on the Geek Catalog, my attempt to curate a list of ways geeks can get involved in good causes.
  • Cooking, and yes, I completely fell off of posting recipes.
  • Way With Worlds – I’m now on heroes and villains.

So as you can see, very busy.  What about you?

– 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/.

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/.