Groundcrew Blog: Archive

Cadre @YBCA

In San Francisco this weekend? On Friday, October 14th, Cadre will be running a new live game tailor-made for The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India, the newest exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In addition to Cadre challenges, The Matter Within’s opening party will feature bhangra dancing lessons from Non-Stop Bhangra, and an interactive rangoli ceremony with...

Oct 12th

Cadre @IndieCade!

Just in case any of you will be around Culver City on October 7-9, we’ll be at IndieCade. Our team will be running Cadre, a live game experience that works by sending players challenges—short sets of instructions that make up experiences, interactions, and situations. We’ll be running some custom challenges developed especially for IndieCade, and the festival itself has got a...

Oct 4th

Tristan T. Angeles: September's Challenge of the...

Congratulations to September’s Challenge of the Month winner, Tristan T. Angeles! His challenge, “Turning Imaginary Places Into Reality” was selected from a bunch of awesome challenges submitted by Revel entrants: Turning Imaginary Places Into Reality (3+): First player writes a one-sentence description of a positive emotion he/she would like to experience (ex. relaxed, excited,...

Sep 21st

Jason Eppink and Larissa Hayden: Challenge of the...

Revel is thrilled to introduce the winner of its first Challenge of The Month contest, a competition where we feature new, awesome, challenges, and the person (or people) behind them. In addition to being featured on the Revel blog, Challenge of the Month winners receive a $500 prize, while still remaining eligible for our $5,000 grand prize and two $2,500 runner-up prizes. This month’s...

Aug 29th

Introducing Revel

Citizen Logistics is excited to introduce you to Revel, a new a contest that rewards people for writing awesome challenges for public space. Challenges are short sets of instructions that make up an experience or activity, that can be performed alone or in groups, with friends or with strangers. You can check out some examples here. Every month, Revel will be awarding one $500 prize for the best...

Aug 26th

Groundcrew Conquers East Coast Blizzard

Here at Groundcrew we frequently run pilots testing out new uses of our platform. So, when Joseph Porcelli of Neighbors for Neighbors asked us to help organize a neighborhood snow shoveling squad, we were excited to make it happen. After a day of preparation, a bit of dispatcher training, and an open call for volunteer signups, we were ready to go…. On February 12th,...

Jan 18th

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Your new mission control on iPhone

Today we’re launching v1 of our iPhone app. Go get it and try it out. For those new to Groundcrew, it lets you start things. We call them missions: Start things in your neighborhood, ask questions of the people who live near you, run events, gather photos and reports, etc. In each case, Groundcrew finds people near you who have joined the same squad and are ready for action, and makes it...

Jun 29th

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Watch

These are slides from PdF 2010. It’s about how to make a product that makes a difference.

Jun 4th

Groundcrew: Organizing the Social Web on the Terra... →

Feb 15th

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Why Our Bright Green... →

I want everyone to read this. Electric cars and local food production are distractions. The path to sustainability is a new world totally unlike our current civilization: a total re-imagination of work, leisure, and sustenance. We can do it, and Groundcrew is a key piece of infrastructure.

Feb 5th

Is it possible to live a life without money? |... →

The best description of the dumpster diving / squatting lifestyle we have read. And a powerful argument for creating a reputation system that motivates owners to leverage excess capacity for the public good.

Jan 30th

Here’s the audio from a talk I gave at the...

Dec 21st

Dec 15th

DARPA Network Challenge →

Several people have mentioned that our real-time, location-based coordination service, Groundcrew, could be helpful in finding the DARPA Network Challenge balloons. Groundcrew integrates with facebook, twitter, and SMS, and could be used to: coordinate taking Aerial or roadside photos coordinate verification squads on the ground gather analyses and ideas about possible locations plant fake...

Dec 2nd

Nov 26th

Nov 8th

What would you like to see done with Groundcrew?

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be gathering ideas for community coordination projects from all of you, and inviting some of you to post paragraphs or to guest blog about your ideas. Send your idea—make them beautiful and relevant to your experience or field—to joe at citizenlogistics dot com!

Oct 19th

CEO Joe interviewed by Stowe Boyd →

“I am particularly impressed by the self-organizing qualities of Groundcrew, around ‘participation design’, where the volunteers are handed more control about how their involvement should be applied in some project or activity, instead of just being told what to do. Groundcrew can also keep track of people’s contributions and then award reputation (what I call...

Oct 13th

Watch

An ignite talk on Groundcrew filmed by the good folks at ACTV. Tells the story of the first wish granted on Groundcrew! (full video)

Oct 13th

New Blog Location

Hi folks, we’ve moved our blog over to tumblr to make it easier to communicate with you all. (Old blog entries are archived here.)

Oct 13th