Bucketworks

2013-05-10

Saturday, May 11th. 10am-5pm

Learn about and do a little Culture Hacking with Jim McCarthy (TEDxHarambee 2013 speaker) and Tim Bailen.

“A culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that both describes and shapes a group. Culture, like technology, can be fruitfully hacked to make it more useful. Good culture hacking promotes freedom, extends openness, and embodies rationality and design elegance.
Walking in to a designed culture versus an unintentional culture is like the difference between walking into the Taj Mahal versus stumbling into a dark, damp cave that might have an angry bear in the back.

Our goals for this day are: to be generous and welcoming in our designed culture and to do some culture hacking with you; to turn on to each other and to turn you onto some ideas that have been developed over the last few decades. We will run some new culture “code” together. We will make and invest in new friends. We will connect with those who value connection. We will use our skill and experience to make sure that our common time together is an unusually rewarding and enlightening experience.”

REGISTER: http://culturehacking.splashthat.com/

2013-05-09

Bucketworks hosting TEDxHarambee Viewing Party Noon - 4:00pm. Starting in 15 minutes.

If ya can’t get there, get here!

2013-04-30

littletinyfish:

Coast In Bikes cruises into Walker’s Point

…Everything in Coast In Bikes – which is still under construction but open to the public – is on sale for 20 percent off throughout the month of May. There is also an ongoing raffle throughout the month.

Coast In Bikes was financed by Fund Milwaukee, a local investing group that invests in local businesses and WWBIC (Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation). They are also supported by Bucketworks as one of the collective’s start-up businesses within the space…

onmilwaukee: Continue reading about the first female co-owned bike shop in Milwaukee (In Wisconsin? In the Midwest?) “Coast In Bikes cruises into Walker’s Point” on OnMilwaukee.

These are my friends. If you live near Downtown, Marquette, Walker’s Point, the South Side, or Bay View, you should check them out, especially since they’re giving 20% discounts on service and it’s 80 degrees out.

Plus I helped them build their racks, so go inspect my work.

Source: onmilwaukee.com

2013-04-22

The sun is shinin’ and the bees are flyin’

Happy Earth Day, Everyone!

2013-04-17

New game at Bucketworks this week: “Thunder or Construction?”

2013-04-10

fastcompany:

5 Ways To Partner With a Huge Corporation Without Losing Your Soul

Sal Khan, of Khan Academy, on making a deal with Bank of America but still keeping the integrity of his project.

The nonprofit Khan Academy recently announced its first corporate partnership, with Bank of America. In exchange for significant financial consideration, BOA is featuring several Khan Academy videos on personal finance topics on a standalone website, and showing them onscreen in 5,400 branches around the country, in concert with a series of seminars.

Over sandwiches in Bank of America’s tower at One Bryant Park, Khan explained their decisionmaking process to Co.Exist. “We were at first a little skeptical—is this going to be a big corporation telling us how to make our videos or what videos to make?” he asked. Here’s how they vetted the deal.

1: TAKE YOUR TIME

“It was a six month vetting process. We were running various scenarios by them: do you really want us to explain to your customers how to pay off your debt? Or every detail of a mortgage statement? We wanted to make sure we had complete editorial control.”

2: GET GOOD AT SAYING NO

“The whole point of my making this a nonprofit was so that no one would question what we were into it for. You do sometimes see not-for-profits compromising their values in order to reach other goals. With this partnership, and even when talking to donors, we’re getting better at saying no to things that are distracting us from our mission, and they’re respecting us more for it. What this partnership showed me was that by not compromising our values, it actually put us in a stronger position, because the value of our brand is in the credibility and independence.”

3: MAKE SURE YOU’RE GETTING MORE THAN MONEY.

“For us the real value in this is the energy and expertise we get from them, and the co-awareness. We have six million users a month, but Bank of America has a relationship with one in two households in America. To see our brand in 5,400 branches, that is personally exciting to me. Even just amongst Bank of America’s 280,000 employees—if they all go home and work on Khan Academy with their kids, that will be significant.”

4: DON’T BE AFRAID TO BE TOUGH

“Our two main things were one, keeping the site noncommercial: there are no interstitial ads before the videos, and when they appear on khanacademy.org, they’re not branded as Bank of America videos. And two, we didn’t want people to see us as beholden to a third party. We can do anything we want, on any topic, and Bank of America can take the stuff they feel is appropriate. “

5: DON’T BE AFRAID TO BE NAIVE, EITHER

“I have a naïve outlook on many things. So far it seems to have worked out. The world is a better place than most people assume it to be. Some might think—oh, a big corporation, they want to take us over or own us. But at the end of the day, most places are actually full of good people.”

Do you have any other tips for someone in that position?

Of interest because reasons.

Source: fastcompany

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jennaddenda:

When the community manager finds an unflattering but truthful public comment about your space.

THIS.

Source: jennaddenda

2013-03-06

The Bucketworks Community Newsletter is out in the wild. Catch it here.

2013-03-01

Some very lovely mirrors were installed in the first floor meetup space this afternoon.

The Milwaukee Community Circus folks will be very excited.

Aren’t they lovely?

”Mixed Tape” is the latest version of the live action puppet-comedy-variety show Full Frontal Pϋppetry. One part Japanese Bunraku, one part Vaudeville, and one part Splatter Film, the “Full Frontal Pϋppetry” series is a combination of sketch comedy, musical numbers, political satire, video premieres, and inspired puppet mayhem.

“Mixed Tape” brings brand new bits and classic hits as AYM Ltd’s puppet cast of monsters, robots, zombies and ‘others’ infect Soulstice Theatre once again with their puppet hilarity.

AYM Ltd is excited to have Shayne Steliga as their Special Musical Guest for this round of FFP. Shayne is a Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist and Actor who is currently finishing a new album. Shayne will be joined by fellow musicians Tom Koehn (guitar), Mike Johnston (guitar), and Frank Pace (drums) who will be performing tracks from his upcoming album as well as joining in the puppet hijinks!

Kid-friendly (but not necessarily kid-safe) the show is rated PG-13, for Puppet Gore and an adolescent sense of humor.

March 1st & 2nd, 8th & 9th - Monday March 4th: Industry Night! Pay-What-You-Can
Doors open at 7:00PM, shows start at 7:30PM

Tickets available at the Door $10

Soulstice Theatre, 3770 S Pennsylvania Ave.

Milwaukee Makerspace

Milwaukee Makerspace is now open at 2555 S. Lenox St. in Bay View. With 16,000 square feet of space, they’re ready to welcome anyone in the Milwaukee area who wants to make something. With a full wood shop, metal shop, electronics lab, welding area, two laser cutters, and plans for a darkroom, silk screening and textiles area, this is where making will happen. And Milwaukee Makerspace is also a new member of the Space Federation, along with Bucketworks, and 50 other makerspaces/hackerspace around the world.

Roaring 20’s

Richard Allen of the photography unit is planning his next big group photoshoot for Mid-April. The theme for this private event will be The Roaring 20’s. A portion of the money raised will again be donated to charity, this time The Ronald McDonald House. This will be the third event hosted at Bucketworks. The first 2 events, Pink for October II and Toys for Tots Pin-Up Shoot, raised over $2200 for charitable causes.

Fruity, Nutty Affair

Join Wisconsin Foodie’s Kyle Cherek, the rustic ensemble The BriarPickers, and Victory Garden Initiative for an evening of Fruity Nutty fun at the Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee from 7-midnight on February 16, 2013! Proceeds will support the planting of 150 Fruit & Nut Trees in 5 Milwaukee Neighborhoods! Sample tapas from great local caterers, bid on exciting food adventure auction items, rub shoulders with some wacky Fruity Nutty characters care of the Milwaukee Public Theater, then dance the night away in support of the Fruity Nutty Campaign!

Tickets: $50 (early bird rate: $45 until 1/31/13) A limited number of volunteer tickets are available for $25! Email if you’re interested in volunteering to help out at the event. Purchase tickets today!