…And another thing

Announcing our new telepathy conferencing service, OpenMind! OpenMind lets companies and individuals hold meetings anywhere – no laptops or high cost data lines needed! When you say that you’re all meeting to share your thoughts, it will finally be true. Why bother with dial-in numbers and passcodes that no one can remember? How many times have you said to yourself, “I’d love to know what those clowns at headquarters are thinking!” Well, now you can!

No more worrying that your boss wants you to be a mindreader because that’s just what you’ll be!

We all know that great minds think alike. With OpenMind, ordinary ones can too.

If you check out InLiquid‘s website, you’ll see: InLiquid, a Philadelphia based nonprofit organization, shows an extensive online collection of work by local, national, and international artists to the public while serving as a comprehensive hub for visual arts information and resources. InLiquid also nurtures our creative community through a continuing series of non-virtual art exhibitions and events.

InLiquid, found at the Crane Arts Building at 1400 North American Street in Philadelphia, just held its 10th anniversary party with a fantastic event on September 29, 2009. Art on display, a silent auction, and the participation of many local organizations in Philadelphia’s wonderful creative community produced a remarkable evening. In addition to the PANMA, the Philadelphia Area New Media Association, the following organizations attended:

• Young Involved Philadelphia
• Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Urban Philadelphia
• Innovation Philadelphia
• Ladies Who Launch

Here’s a video with highlights of the evening:

IndyHall and National Mechanics Restaurant and Bar helped save lives this summer!

On August 17, 2009, when it is VERY hard to convince anyone to donate blood, these folks did it again. Jason Hill and Paul Brown of National Mechanics, and Alex Hillman of Independents Hall, held another blood drive to help keep our area’s supply where it needs to be. Thirty-one people donated at the American Red Cross blood drive at National Mechanics! I am proud to have been a part of this lifesaving effort and I hope you enjoy this short video of a few of the wonderful people who donated that day!

Once again, the people at Independents Hall and National Mechanics Restaurant and Bar demonstrated their amazing community spirit – by co-sponsoring a Red Cross blood drive. On April 6, 50 people signed up to donate at National Mechanics, and added 42 units of blood to our community’s supply!

This was the second year for IndyHall to sponsor a blood drive. Last year, it was held at IndyHall, when 22 people donated. To go for a goal of 40 donations, we needed more space. Jason Hill of National Mechanics really came through by opening up the restaurant space on a Monday (when he normally gets a day off!) to accommodate the increased flow of donors. Paul Brown made sure that all the tables and chairs usually there for restaurant patrons were out of the way so that the Red Cross could set up donor beds. The effort brought great success, as nearly twice as many people donated this year!

Philadelphia can be proud of people like Alex Hillman, Jason Hill, Paul Brown and all of the blood donors who make such a difference. Here are some of the highlights of this great day!

On Thursday, April 2nd, Geeks Who Give, a civic minded community group in Philadelphia, will be hosting Philadelphia Futures Game Night and Mentor Drive at Tattooed Mom on South Street from from 6 to 9pm. Admission is a minimum of 1 jump drive or 1 package of school appropriate office supplies (pens, notebooks, highlighters, etc). This is a 21+ event.

Philadelphia Futures is looking for a few good geeks, in the form of new mentors! From board games to card games, and maybe a few made up games, (Werewolf anyone?) G2: Geeks Who Game will be all about old school fun for some new school altruism. Tmom’s is raising the stakes with some amazing specials for this event:

* $1.50 Pabst Blue Ribbon
* $3.00 Yards Philly Pale
* $3.00, Philadelphia Brewing Company Kenzinger
* $3.00 Hamburgers or Vegan Burgers.

We are reaching out to local voices in the community in an effort to team up, not only to promote Philly, but to raise as much awareness as possible for this very important cause through blog posts, news articles, word of mouth, etc. Would you like to contribute to making this event a success? If so please contact us at any time at info@geekswhogive.org or just simply get involved!

Relevant Links
Geeks Who Give: www.geekswhogive.org
GWG Twitter: www.twitter.com/geekswhogive
GWG: G2 FB Event Page: http://tr.im/geekswhogame
GWG FB Group: http://tr.im/geekswhogive_fb
Philadelphia Futures: http://philadelphiafutures.org
Philadelphia Futures Mentoring: http://philadelphiafutures.org/sas_high_school/mentors/
Tattooed Mom: http://tr.im/tmoms

About Philadelphia Futures

Philadelphia Futures is a local nonprofit that has been helping Philadelphia youth accomplish their dreams of higher education for more than 20 years. What Futures does is match one student with one mentor, beginning in their freshman year. The student/mentor relationship continues until that student graduates high school. Futures provides academic support in the form of tutoring, SAT prep, college visits, advanced course work, and more. Apply now. They have a constant need for new mentors and volunteers. Currently they are seeking at least 60 new mentors for their incoming class.

About GWG

Geeks all over the world are proving to be open and caring individuals, and the Philadelphia tech scene is no exception. This compassion reaches beyond such limitations as 140 characters on twitter into real life places like Indy Hall, P’unk Ave, IgnitePhilly, The Hactory, Geekadelphia and various local establishments and businesses. Geeks Who Give seeks to mobilize this community to reach beyond its self contained boundaries, to route that amazingly powerful and positive energy to people and causes that really need it.

Geeks Who Give
The Theory: Open Source Community Giving

Everyone has something to contribute. Long term goals include idea, goods & services, and resource banks from which we can draw as well as coordinating volunteer opportunities on an individual basis and organizing large scale volunteer efforts for continued organization-based support

The vision is for this to happen organically, for those things which resonate to surface, and those which don’t to naturally recede. Everyone in the community is invited to participate at whatever level they feel most comfortable — from planning & organizing outreach to attending events — to blogging, promoting and evangelizing the cause. We are more than the sum of our parts, and together, we are capable of anything

We all have something to give. What will you give today?

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