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[#swCT Day 4 Finale] New Haven in the Last 100 Days: A City on the Move - and Your Role In It!

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Jul 13 2010 5:30 pm
America/New York

Locations

King's Block - By the River in Fairhaven - Third Floor
20 Grand Avenue
New Haven, CT
United States
See map: Google Maps

A vision is emerging of New Haven as the shining city of the social web: a model of how people from all walks using social media and technologies purposefully can better a city by bettering the connections, conversations, and collaborations of its many stakeholders.

Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. puts it best in this video: We are creating new neighborhoods, not geographic...

Join us for this historic day in New Haven, and indeed for any city in its quest for a model of how to integrate the social web into the effective fabric of its everyday life, work, and play. We will use a tag theater format to tell the story of what is and march onto what can be. New Haven on the move - and your role in it!

Act I: Tag Theater

  • We kick-off with a cross-sector re-telling of New Haven's last 100 days: our path from GoogleHaven to GoogleHaven100, to The Left To Right Movement, Social Web Week CT, and PodcampCT. Featuring the businesses, nonprofits, schools and government agencies who played a part.
  • Tag theater format mixes visual images (of social web interactions via Twitter, FB, YouTube, and apps from local startups like SeeClickFix and Ripple100) with live cast of characters who will be "tagged" to share how they became involved and why it was good for their business, nonprofit, school, or government office.
  • In the big picture, you'll see that social web in New Haven is at a critical mass!

Act 2: What's Next?

  • Challenge posed to sectors or stakeholders present: What will you do to help New Haven sustain this energy and take it to the next level?
  • Surprise: The Mayor's Office, as one of our key stakeholders, stands up with an announcement that's sure to galvanize every other sector and help us with a shared path forward. Not in weeks or months, but in days, so that we can look forward to tangible outcomes within this very month of July 2010!
  • Sector Breakout: each sector brainstorms its role and shares its 140-character statement to be shared with audiences present and online.

Cast of Characters

We don't have a script, never had a rehearsal, but we know this story by heart. Here are the people and organizations in the sequence that we connected and worked with them through GoogleHaven, GoogleHaven100, The Left to Right Movement, PodcampCT, and Social Web Week CT*:

  • Ben Berkowitz, SeeClickFix
  • Jack Nork, Retail Optimization
  • Emily Byrne, Mayor's Office
  • Giulia Gouge, SheSoSocial
  • Lee Cruz, Community Foundation
  • JR Logan, United Way of Greater New Haven
  • Kevin Ewing, West River Community
  • Jason Wierenga, Higher One
  • Becky Lyman, Retail Optimization
  • Chris Velardi, WTNH
  • Derek Koch, Independent Software
  • Bobby Emamian, Prolific Interactive
  • Aldon Hynes, Blogger
  • Carlos Eyzaguirre, EDC
  • Ian Pockock, EDC
  • Glenn Archer, Covoda
  • Sherry, Boyd, Retail Goddesses
  • Diane Sullivan, @PilotPenTennis
  • Debbie Hauser, Candidate CT State Representative
  • Deneen Jackson, CAbi
  • Will Clark, New Haven Public Schools
  • New Haven Public Schools
  • GoogleHaven Hero
  • Curtis Packer, Bru Cafe
  • Bill Readey, Bru Cafe
  • Tracy B Boutique
  • Seijia Onsite Spa
  • Claire's CornerCopia
  • Basta Trattoria
  • Peter Indorf Jewellers
  • JaymesGrace.com
  • Fairhaven Furniture
  • Mayor John DeStefano
  • Jessica Mayorga, Mayor's office
  • Matthew and Phoebe Browning, Your Nurse is On & Thomas Hooker Brewery
  • New Haven Symphony Orchestra
  • Grand Lighting
  • Independent Software
  • Isiah Cooper, Cooper Law LLC
  • Paul Malafronte, Malafronte Consulting
  • Robert Friedman, StopTheCallsFast
  • Chris Bartlett, GEM Media
  • Anne Haynes, New Haven EDC
  • Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
  • Social Media Club of New Haven
  • Kristen Markarian, Elm City Parent
  • Helen Bennett Harvey, New Haven Register
  • Kim Hynes, Common Cause
  • Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
  • Sonya Mills, Continuity Control
  • Bun Lai, Miya's Sushi
  • ODonnell Company
  • Cheney & Company
  • Sean Matteson, Mayor's Chief of Staff
  • Feresheteh Berkhad, Oyster Harbor Village
  • Voytec Wakowski, Amistad
  • countless New Haven businesses, nonprofits, professionals, students, and residents

* As told from the perspective of Andre Yap, Amy Desmarais, and Dave Petersen of Ripple100.

Join us 5:30 pm for open networking and cocktails. Live theater Acts I and II starts 6:00pm.

Note: The event will take place on the Third Floor, which can be accessed from the rear of the building.

Sponsored by the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven and Cheney & Company.