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If you’re anything like me then you’re finding it a bit hard to believe that the end of August is upon us.
The good news is: cSpot is tonight, the last one of the summer. The hottest creative networking org in town will set up shop at Hang Fire, one of the hottest bars in town. Seems fitting, yes?
Join us, as we mourn the passing of watermelon and lemonade, fireworks, sandcastles and plentiful sunshine. (Save Fitz, who’s itching to bid a don’t-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out adieu to sunburns and weather that doesn’t bode well for blazers and pale noggins.)
I know I’ll be schmoozing my seasonal blues away. After all “Summer” is my middle name (first, rather) and I always mourn its passing come this time of year, for obvious reasons. Unlike some of us, I can rack up a killer tan.
So, whether you’re drinking to the “impending temperateness” or drowning your summerless sorrow, come join us at Hang Fire from 5:30 to 7:30 as we fill the place with creative conversation.
Inclusively speaking, Savannah’s got it.
It’s straight up Mendelian fact. (Oglethorpe was a procrastinator, it’s true.)
Luckily, I am a dude that can empathize. (I still haven’t turned in my math homework.)
Due to overwhelming demand (so far more than doubled applications from last year!) and numerous phone calls requesting an “extension”, we’re going to give you eager innovators the rest of the weekend to finish your applications for the 2008 Innovation Awards.
So breathe, sit back and relax.
Honestly, we’re just pumped to see all the enthusiasm. Looks like ya’ll are going to make this a good show…
New Deadline: August 4th, close of bid-ness.
www.thecreativecoast.org/innovation-awards/application
Popularity: 16% [?]
Its the last Wednesday of the month, and there’s nothing like a little pig-latin to mark the glorious one-two punch of hump-day AND cSpot.
cSpot this month (tonight, July 30) will be at Saya Lounge: a happenin’ cocktail spot on Broughton, downstairs from the newly grand-scaled DC2 Design (the LA-based design showroom and retail store).
And if you haven’t been yet, here’s your chance. It’s a kickin’ new sidestreet joint (highlighted by big ole’ Buddha heads, warm tones and tasty martinis) and it’s a great venue to have fun and enjoy the funky, braininess of Savannah.
Heck, you may even meet the business connection of your dreams. Example: TCCa met, courted and hired our former Marketing Priestess, Angel Ratcliffe (now at Paragon Design Group) due to a chance meeting at cSpot. Come to think of it, I met Fitz at a cSpot, and 1.5 years later I’m bloggin’ up a storm for him. Damn!
We’re also extending happy hour (5:30 - 7:30 pm) and bringing in Zunzi’s cultural culinary expertise to provide some cocktail hour munchies for our cSpotters. (Mouth is watering…)
Good Monday, quirky Savannahians. As you transition back into the work week, Fitz wanted me to remind you to put one last thing on your calendar this week.
It’s a biggie: the deadline for applicants for this years TCCa Innovation Awards is fast approaching. In fact, it’s Thursday (July 31)!!
To refresh your Monday memory, the Innovation Awards (to take place on October 23) will honor regional business, education and community organizations that demonstrate innovation and outstanding achievement in education, business, community, government and sustainability. To date, we’ve seen applications from across the board - from janitorial services to transportation to fashion - so join the show and let us know why you’re innovative!
Consider this an INNOVATION intervention. Missing this deadline could be disastrous to you and your business’s long-term health (over-dramatization of facts).
You are the key players in this awards equation. Not only the eyes and ears of the Creative Coast but the true creators, innovators and entrepreneurial heroes. Don’t let a chance for deserved recognition (and a dang good time) slip away.
Calling all innovators! Yes, it’s that time again (for the first time).
TCCa is now accepting applications (and nominations) for its first annual Innovation Awards, to take place October 23 at Savannah Station.
Four-hundred of Savannah’s coolest, most innovative business, technology and creative community leaders thrown together in a room full of food, drink, celebration, recognition and shiny lights. How fun is that!?!?
Building off the great tradition of the 5-year running cBETA awards, this year’s Innovation Awards will bring the innovative heat and the quirky, cool flair of TCCa. The ceremony will honor regional business, education and community organizations that demonstrate innovation and outstanding achievement in education, business, community, government and sustainability. Applications are being accepted in the following six categories until the July 31st deadline.
- Innovative Achievement in Education
This category is open to all educational establishments along the Creative Coast - public or private, K-12 or colleges/universities - that boast a creative or innovative development, program or application of technology that has a positive impact on the educational experience. We’ve said it before: children are the future. Let’s see what the creative leaders of tomorrow are learning today.
You heard it here, folks. As of Monday I’m a 26 year old woman (my, how time flies.) But I’m not the only one having a good time growing up. Fitz (31, yikes) and Leigh (the big Three-OH), fellow Geminis, are also celebrating birthdays this week. It’s a bonafide birthday trifecta with TCCa-ers boasting May 26th and 28th birthdays.
If you feel like buying us a birthday beer (or chocolate), celebrating the short work week or just coming out to meet cool, creative professionals, join our cSpot fete. That’s right: cSpot and birthday suits (kidding). This month we’re at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar on MLK, right down from Venus de Milo. Mmmm, chocolate covered creatives. Sounds like a birthday bash to me! See you there…
who: The cSpot
what: Monthly cocktail shenanigans
when: Tonight! (Wednesday, May 28th) from 5:30-7:30pm
where: Lulu’s Chocolate Bar (map)
details: 42 MLK Jr Blvd
Popularity: 25% [?]
On May 21st at the SEDA/TCCa offices at high-noon, we will be facilitating a blogging panel made up of the area’s preeminent bloggers (read: YOU), on behalf of one of our most favorite-ist new young companies, Balaya.
If that weren’t enough, we’ll even buy you lunch and give you a comfy chair to sit in.
Balaya. Together. Wherever.
Hopefully, many of have heard of a great new company we’ve helped out named Balaya. You may have even attended their announcement we hosted last November where we celebrated the news that their corporate headquarters would be in Savannah. (Hooray!)
Balaya provides advanced web applications that help members of any group communicate and collaborate more effectively from desktops and mobile devices. What’s even cooler is that SmackDab Studios (another company we’ve given relocation love to) is developing their flagship product. Gotta love that domino effect.
Tick-it™, it’s like email but sucks less
I should start off by saying that I’m not a “cyclist.” I don’t even have a bike (anymore.) And, for that matter, the last bike I had was a blue Schwinn that my best friend and I both got for Christmas in 1990.
So, I guess what I’m saying is that I’m no expert. Despite all that, I’m still fired up. I’m speaking of course about the Tour de Georgia. You know, the event that is North America’s premier professional cycling event (Tour de Georgia is ranked as a Hors Classe (2.HC) event by the UCI, which is cycling’s international governing body, making it North America’s highest rated professional cycling stage race along with the Tour of California) with over 600 miles of racing, 800,000 visiting spectators and a direct economic impact of over $148 million over the last five years? THAT Tour de Georgia?
Surely you know all about it? Yea, me neither.
What’s got me all worked up? Tourists. Yea, you heard me…Tourists. Lots of ‘em.
Posted by Fitz Haile on March 15, 2008 at 10:26 AM
One of the coolest things about my job is that I get to see all the crazy and interesting people who for one reason or another want to come visit Savannah.
One such group of crazy people, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) decided to hold their board meeting here. If you’ve never heard of the IDSA, don’t worry…but listen. The IDSA IDEA Awards are like the Oscar’s of design. Ask any SCAD student worth his or her retro-80’s punk jeans…the IDEA awards are “it.”
The new president of the organization, Frank Tyneski is about as big a bad-ass as you can get in the design community. The dude has more than 50 domestic and foreign patents and was Director of Design Integration at Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM…you know, the makers of the beloved crackberry) and led the design efforts on the Blackberry 7100 series (the one with the small two-letter-per-button style keyboard…predecessor to the Pearl.) We got to hang with him for dinner recently, and he’s definitely a cool cat.
(left: IDSA Southern Conf. flier, right: The Butler’s pimptastic pad (pic courtesy of Attic Fire)
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