At Smart Chicago, use social media significantly to help spread the word at our events as well as to share what’s happening at different civic events throughout Chicago. We’re going to go over a few tips and tricks for using social…
At the Experimental Modes convening, practitioners from all over civic tech to came together to discuss, in their own words, how they do what they do. You can see our full meeting notes here. We tore into this subject, looking at how…
Previously, we had talked about how to plan and run a civic hacking event. Today, we’re going to go into a little more detail about getting sponsors for your event using resources from Code for America’s Brigade toolkit and asking…
Once again, Smart Chicago Collaborative will be a national partner for National Day of Civic Hacking providing training content as well as running our own National Day of Civic Hacking events here in Chicago. This year, the national organizer for…
As part of our philosophy to be open and transparent, we’ve got a new feature— Show Your Stats. In the civic tech world, we make a lot of stuff and we churn our legs in the right direction, but there’s…
Since first opening their doors in 1873, the Chicago Public Library has served all Chicagoans with free and open places to gather, learn, connect, read and be transformed. We partner with the Chicago Public Library on a wide range of initiatives. First, they…
