Wow, it is kinda crazy that it’s taken so long to get a blog up. Anyway’s welcome and thanks for stopping by. Glad to finally have a place to share ideas, events, and tech tips & tricks. I’m guessing there will also be a healthy share of rants about rap music and other random culture and design stuff as well..

It was an intense fall/winter ’09, working with an amazing coalition of NGO’s leading up to and in Copenhagen for the UNF Climate Change Conference. Pretty much swallowed me whole. I was working with TckTckTck, a coalition of over 250 NGOs, Faith Groups, youth groups, and others including WWF, Greenpeace, Oxfam, 1SKY, 350, and a host of other huge organizations. It was an amazing 3 months, working on average 400 hours per month, and traveling to New York, Barcelona, and two trips to Copenhagen.

I was co-project manager, IT strategy manager, and lead the logistics team creating and operating the Fresh Air Center in Copenhagen, during the Conference. I’d try to explain all that we were doing but it’s best described by a few quotes I’ll share from various posts written about what we were doing:

When I think of what it means to be a new media journalist today, I think about the Fresh Air Center in downtown Copenhagen. It was set up during the UN climate summit by TckTckTck … TckTckTck made space available to bloggers, journalists and NGOs and provided high speed Internet access, live streaming briefings, video editing set-up, drop-in talks by people like Kumi Naidoo, the head of Greenpeace, panels with Naomi Klein, Andrew Revkin and George Monbiot, Happy Hour sponsored by the UN Foundation, and patient, tirelessly helpful support team.

From “Standing On The Edge Of The Future: The New Media In Copenhagen”
by Katherine Goldstine, Editor of The Huffington Post Green

10 minutes away from the…cluttered convention center, a much smaller, conversational, and action-driven citizens platform was produced, The Fresh Air Center. This downtown physical space, founded out of the ethos of the we-powered people movement of media makers and activists, stepped up and demonstrated more courage and leadership in organizing for climate change than our president.

Fresh Air Center grassroots field and technology-driven organizing methods accomplished a number of transformative and inspiring exchanges. What makes the Fresh Air Center worth drilling into is that it wasn’t a typical sponsored media center or a blogger tent.

Instead, the Fresh Air Center blurred traditional lines first by bringing grassroots activists and leading media mavens together to produce content, and second by carefully constructing a physical space with shared technology and social media.

From “Activism 2.0: Creating Casablanca in Copenhagen, The Fresh Air Center”
by Chrissie Brodigan for The Huffington Post

It was a pretty amazing opportunity and learning experience, and an honour to be working amongst such a hard-working and committed group of NGOs, bloggers, media, and consultants.

Gotta send a bit shout and thanks to Jason Mogus, CEO of Communicopia for bringing me onboard. It was awesome working with Jason, hope we get the chance again soon.

Also must shout out Beka Economopoulos from Fission Strategy in NYC, who was the other partner I had the pleasure of working with. Beka is incredible, we became a tight, dynamic duo with a few short days, and I’m not sure I would have survived the 22 days in Copenhagen without her.

I’ll be putting together a more concise case-study to talk about some of the cool stuff we were up to in a coming post. Anyway, big things ahead.. 2010 has already kicked off to an amazing start, more on that later.

peace,
Steve