This is a great video – TED Talk Brene Brown

It’s long (over 3 hours) but covers Bucky’s story and lots of insights.

Marshall McLuhan was a post modern day prophet. Read his prediction of the internet from 1962, “The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind” (Marshall McLuhan 1962).

Get ‘with it’, this short video is worth the few minutes.

Check out this short video of CitySourced Co-Founder Kurt Daradics presenting at the Cityworks 2011 User Conference in St. George, UT.

Good Magazine and What’s Trending bring you are “People Are Awesome” segment, which focuses on innovative ideas that will change your digital and real life (CBS/What’s Trending) – In this week’s What’s Trending and Good Magazine’s “People are Awesome” segment Kurt Daradics, co- founder of the CitySourced smart phone app, explains the app and all that it can do to raise civic awareness.

To read more…http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20065831-10391715.html

Meeting Geography Pioneer Roger Tomlinson at Esri HQ was a memory. We had some fun telling jokes, talking about koala bears, and hearing the story about how Roger and Jack Dangermond met in Santa Barbara in the late 60’s.

Now I just need to pick up a copy of Thinking About GIS

In the video, Kurt Daradics, President & Co-Founder of CitySourced, shares the CitySourced vision to transform civic engagement by building mobile 311 applications on a SaaS platform.

Presenting to the 2500+ partners at the Esri Partner Conference was another milestone for me. I was able to speak from the heart about our vision to transform civic engagement.The positive feedback was humbling and encouraging.

What seems to be capturing folks imagination is our BIG vision and our strategy of building products for the mobile and web that take the friction out of the of the process. It is clearer than ever how Esri’s vision to make the world a better place is perfectly aligned with ours.

This photo highlights another moment with Jack Dangermond, Scott Morehouse, & our partner manager Myles Sutherland.

Just finished watching Ken Burn’s documentary on Lewis & Clark. So inspiring. Lewis’ birthday meditation both inspires and resonates with me:

“This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this Sublunary world. I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now soarly feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended. but since they are past and cannot be recalled, I dash from me the gloomy thought and resolved in future, to redouble my exertions and at least indeavour to promote those two primary objects of human existance, by giving them the aid of that portion of talents which nature and fortune have bestowed on me; or in future, to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself.“— Meriwether Lewis

It’s rare when lightening strikes twice. My partners Jason Kiesel, Kyle Brinkman, and I presented CitySourced in front of a live audience of 13,000+ July 12 in San Diego at the 30th Annual User Conference. This was a great bookend for our product launch post TechCrunch50 in Sept 2009.

We were pleased when Myles Sutherland & Chris Thomas from Esri called us in April because Esri was on our short list of top partners that we wanted to work with.  We first met Jack Dangermond at the Gov2.0 Expo in Washington DC. From there, Jack personally opened the door and invited us in.  From the get go we could all tell that this was special.

Here’s the result of the sprint. Check us out presenting live in front of 11,000+ live GIS pros http://www.esri.com/events/user-conference/index.html First video, about 27 mins in.

It’s time to wake up the neighborhood!