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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

Santa Cruz has always been known as a beach community, an oasis where Bay Area citizens can escape into the sunny bliss of rolling surf and beautiful redwoods. However, in recent months, Santa Cruz is making waves in another way, following Kansas City, Chattanooga and Lafayette in creating a hyper-connected "Gig City."

But where other cities have relied on

What's your Media Plan? A FREE workshop for non-profits offered by Community TV

People we saw at the Techraising.

Everyone was pretty energized, even after a couple of late nights. I'm not good with names so I won't even try to attribute all the photos... just the first few.

First up are the awesome organizers.  (Lots more info about the techraising on TechRaising.com ).

Matthew Swinnerton 
  

Margaret Rosas 

Andrew Mueller 

And now on to

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,

Tune into Community Television of Santa Cruz County on Election Night for
the best and most extensive local coverage of election results and analysis.
 
Beginning at 7:30pm on Comcast Ch 26/Charter Ch 72, and live streaming at
http://communitytv.org/ctv2, CTV’s election coverage will feature special
hosts and guests from around the county, including Fred Keeley,

  

Part of the Good Times Making Noise blog. My goal is to provide helpful information to local bands on how to book shows and build their audience.

If I could summarize exactly how to sell out every show in Santa Cruz, I would be writing this blog from my yacht in Spain, instead of at this faux wood desk. People with brains much bigger than mine spend

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the fiber-optic cable cut that left much of Santa Cruz in the dark for more than 24 hours. (Otherwise known as The Great Internet Outage of 2009.) In our debriefing meetings at Cruzio in the days and weeks following the incident we discussed what happened, why it had the impact that it did, and how to make sure it

You've probably heard all the buzz about Santa Cruz vying for Google's fiber (kudos to Network Santa Cruz for the snazzy "Think Big about a Gig" title).

All of us here at Cruzio are stoked about the possibility of Google bringing fiber to Santa Cruz (especially the open access part). We'd love it if everyone had incredible connections to the

 

On Wednesday, December 2, twenty-one women gathered for the first 100+ Women Who Care-Santa Cruz meeting, each bringing a blank check for $100. After hearing five-minute presentations from three nominated charities, the group voted to make a donation to Mini Mermaids, an after-school running program— based at Del Mar Elementary School in Live Oak —for

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

Here's my entry for:

 

The City of Santa Cruz has posted the final EIR (Environmental Impact Report) for the LaBahia Hotel project here: http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/pl/LaBahia/LaBahia.html

 

This is a pretty comprehesive document, it includes a _lot_ of information about the project including plans, alternative plans, traffic analysis, and projected views of how the building