The City of Santa Cruz and Code for America, a national nonprofit that uses talented web professionals to improve government services, are proud to announce the public launch of OpenCounter,  an online small business permitting system.

 

Designed and developed throughout 2012, OpenCounter reduces the confusion of starting a business by creating an online

 Cruzio's Industy — telecommunications — keeps changing and our valiant staff works hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every year, we adopt new technology and even invent new ways of doing business. 2012 was a busy year for us, culminating in a being named Business of the Year from the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce (a huge honor!)Here's a look back at we've

 

 

Inside Scoop: Ice Cream and Conversation with the Santa Cruz City Council Candidates

 

Santa Cruz NEXT, Cruzio Internet, Civinomics, and Santa Cruz Geeks are joining forces to hold a ice cream social with the Santa Cruz City Council candidates. 

Come mix and mingle with the candidates over drinks and ice cream on Wednesday, September 19th from 6 to 9 pm

Wonderful party/showcase last week when hundreds of people came to celebrate local business at the Think Local First mixer at Cruzioworks in downtown Santa Cruz.

Buying locally puts a much higher percentage of your dollars back into your own community where it can be used to foster a safer, cleaner, better environment in which to live in and raise

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

6-9pm

877 Cedar Street

Free and open to the public

 

 

 

Local. Artistic. Small business.

The words are used time and again in Santa Cruz with good reason. We all love living here in our little slice of paradise. And we want to stay here. With our friends. Our local friends, who happen to be artistic and gifted and running a small business.

Support your community this holiday season by supporting these

Teen TV

Summer Camp

TEEN TV: STUDIO PRODUCTION CAMP (13 - 18 yrs, 5 days) Produce your own TV show! Teen participants will work together with skilled Community Television trainers to prepare, produce, and work the various crew positions involved in creating a television studio program. Each day will include fun, hands-on training in studio cameras,

Community TV has lots going on around the upcoming November 2010 Elections. 

CTV will be covering the election LIVE on November 2, Election Night.  We will present local real time results and analysis late into the night. You can catch the action on CTV's Comcast 26/Charter 72 channel, which also streams live on the internet thanks to a generous donation

  Last Friday night (Halloween eve) I attended my second Guerilla Drive-In event.  I went with some trepidation because this Guerilla Drive-In was being held in San Lorenzo Park as a challenge to the ordinance which says that all public parks are to closed after sunset.  I envisioned a large crowd ready for confrontation for when the police would inevitably

if you're not afraid to try something different, it might be fun to see "man on wire" under the stars this friday. wordsmith blogged about the guerilla drive-in a few weeks back and it sounds exciting. they're showing man on wire under the soquel bridge in the san lorenzo park this friday, are you going? "man on wire" won the best documentary oscar last

Knowledge work becomes a competitive advantage when traditional manufacturing work begins happening elsewhere. Drivers of the new sustainable, regional economy are digital education and entertainment.

What's required to better interconnect media producers and designers with the audiences eager for content? Bandwidth.

What can we do to create greater broadband

  I'd heard of the local Guerilla Drive-In for some time, last Friday night I finally partook of this event, and I'm glad I went.

The idea is simple, local people find a spot here in town where they can project a movie at night for the enjoyment of the community.  People bring something to sit on, something to eat and drink, and enjoy the movie.  It's like