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WhereByUs

·Mar 11, 2020

5 practical tips for managing newly remote teams during coronavirus

Last year, our teams at WhereBy.Us went fully remote. Our team was already distributed across the U.S., and we chose to formalize this as an operational way to ensure that “solo” employees working alone in various cities had the same habits and access as those who gathered IRL. …

Remote Working

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5 practical tips for managing newly remote teams during coronavirus
5 practical tips for managing newly remote teams during coronavirus
Remote Working

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Sep 9, 2017

Shuttering up and hunkering down for hurricane Irma

Yesterday I went over to help my friend and neighbor Charles secure his house for the storm. Charles lives with his wife, Michelle, their 2-and-a-half year old, Hannah, and Michelle’s mom. And, there’s a new baby on the way. Michelle’s due date was yesterday. When Charles started setting up his…

Hurricane Irma

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Shuttering up and hunkering down for hurricane Irma
Shuttering up and hunkering down for hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma

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Sep 7, 2017

Valencia Gunder: ‘Boots on the ground’ at the front lines of climate change, poverty and disaster

Hurricane Irma is bearing down on Miami, and I’m restless. I’m doing a bunch of work to help coordinate and support our journalism team and our community over at The New Tropic. I’m volunteering some with the Irma Response civic hacking team. I’m also talking with a lot of really…

Climate Change

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Valencia Gunder: ‘Boots on the ground’ at the front lines of climate change, poverty and disaster
Valencia Gunder: ‘Boots on the ground’ at the front lines of climate change, poverty and disaster
Climate Change

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May 18, 2017

Can technology rescue democracy?

It’s been a wild year, huh? With the rise of fake news, election hacking concerns, filter bubbles and more, many are questioning technology’s impact on our society, particularly as it relates to democracy and government. The Atlantic recently asked me to contribute an essay to a series on the question…

Civictech

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Can technology rescue democracy?
Can technology rescue democracy?
Civictech

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WhereByUs

·Jan 4, 2017

Journalism is community-as-a-service

We spend a lot of effort on building trust, authentic local engagement, and ultimately a strong community through stories and experiences at WhereBy.Us. After a rough election season in which media were battered and “fake news” became a buzzword, I think what we’re working on matters now more than ever…

Journalism

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Journalism is community-as-a-service
Journalism is community-as-a-service
Journalism

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Code for Miami

·May 23, 2016

Miami, you’re invited to Hack for Change!

Developers, designers, government staff, community organizers and civic-minded volunteers in Miami will join Code for Miami and thousands of volunteers throughout the United States on Saturday, June 4 for National Day of Civic Hacking, or Hack for Change, an annual event that asks volunteers to hack their communities. Miami’s fourth…

Open Data

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Miami, you’re invited to Hack for Change!
Miami, you’re invited to Hack for Change!
Open Data

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WhereByUs

·Apr 14, 2016

Yes, we make media, but we design for community

We’ve read a couple of interesting stories in recent months about how hard it can be to make friends as an adult. At WhereBy.Us, we think about community and friendship a lot, and working to solve this specific problem is embedded our work in both content and event design. Everything…

Design

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Yes, we make media, but we design for community
Yes, we make media, but we design for community
Design

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On voting in America

·Nov 23, 2014

On ballots, black boxes and blue tape

When I was 7, my mama took me into the voting booth for the first time. My class was following the Bush-Dukakis race through the Weekly Reader, the premiere elementary school news source of the ’80s. Our class held a mock election, and I got really into it. My mom…

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On ballots, black boxes and blue tape
On ballots, black boxes and blue tape

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Jun 9, 2014

What to say when people ask when you’re going to gay marry your girlfriend

In which LGBTQ people enjoy equal treatment under the awkward questioning of married people … — 10. As soon as we can book Sleater-Kinney to play our wedding. 9. When drunk straight guys stop asking us about scissoring. 8. *Glare while slowly sharpening the dowel of a mini pride flag with your pocket knife and revving your truck engine.* 7. We need to learn how to…

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What to say when people ask when you’re going to gay marry your girlfriend
What to say when people ask when you’re going to gay marry your girlfriend

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Nov 22, 2013

Our spider

Our spider arrived two weeks ago, her abdomen as fat as my finger and her spindly legs extending to the width of a quarter. She’s an orb-weaver, I think, and when the light strikes her she glows ghost white. The hairs on her legs and abdomen look like thorns in…

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Our spider
Our spider

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