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Vircity to offer startup courses in 2013 // TechBreakfast t-shirts // TenantRex launches // Jargon to retire in 2012 [Startup Roundup] uncategorized

Dec. 12, 2012 8:30 am

Vircity to offer startup courses in 2013 // TechBreakfast t-shirts // TenantRex launches // Jargon to retire in 2012 [Startup Roundup]

This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. InstantLabs Medical Diagnostics Corp. will expand into the veterinary medicine field in 2013 “with plans to develop a variety of tests for the detection and diagnosis of dangerous pathogens in animals,” reports Bmore Media. [...]
Get college students off campus and into the community: Sharon Paley’s ‘One Big Idea for Baltimore’ [VIDEO] uncategorized

Nov. 12, 2012 10:30 am

Get college students off campus and into the community: Sharon Paley’s ‘One Big Idea for Baltimore’ [VIDEO]

This is Technically Baltimore’s weekly One Big Idea. We’d like to use this space to allow technologists, community organizers, activists and other thought leaders in Baltimore city propose one idea for making this city a better place to live and work. You probably know Sharon Paley from her work with gb.tc, where she’s one-quarter of a [...]
GB.TC hosts first Baltimore Tech Crawl, Mayor Rawlings-Blake to attend annual Tech Night uncategorized

Nov. 1, 2012 10:00 am

GB.TC hosts first Baltimore Tech Crawl, Mayor Rawlings-Blake to attend annual Tech Night

Before Tech Night kicks off at Lexington Market at 7 tonight, gb.tc will hold the first annual Tech Crawl to “see Baltimore tech in action,” writes Jason Hardebeck. Crawlers will make four stops at the: Bromo Seltzer Tower clockworks Baltimore Police’s CitiWatch control center Catholic Relief Services’ international crisis situation room MTA’s nerve center E-mail [...]
Groundwork civic hackathon produces projects on city contracts, homicides, speed cameras [VIDEO] uncategorized

Oct. 1, 2012 11:00 am

Groundwork civic hackathon produces projects on city contracts, homicides, speed cameras [VIDEO]

Big data flexed its muscles this weekend at Groundwork, the civic hackathon hosted by the Greater Baltimore Technology Council that called on participants to delve into spreadsheets and tables of numbers to inform potential solutions to urban issues. More than 120 hackers and community leaders, as well as a team from Maryland StateStat, gathered over [...]
GBTC Groundwork hackathon to bring techies, activists together to ‘make sense of data’

Sep. 25, 2012 11:07 am

GBTC Groundwork hackathon to bring techies, activists together to ‘make sense of data’

Can data save Baltimore city? At Groundwork this weekend, that’s what the Greater Baltimore Technology Council aims to find out. Armed with a cache of data sets made available by the federal, state and Baltimore city governments, GBTC and its volunteer force of tech hackers, data analysts and community activists plan to parse through the [...]
GBTC On Ramp accelerator offers mentoring, advice minus the equity stake uncategorized

Sep. 6, 2012 9:30 am

GBTC On Ramp accelerator offers mentoring, advice minus the equity stake

The On Ramp accelerator program through the Greater Baltimore Technology Council offers all the benefits of a traditional accelerator minus the financial transactions—no fees to get into the program and no equity stake in your startup is exchanged for entrance into the GBTC program. “The idea is to bring in pre-funded startups … for mentoring, [...]
Video crash course with GBTC // WordCamp at the MD Science Center // Intro to CCBC Fab Lab [Events]

Sep. 4, 2012 8:30 am

Video crash course with GBTC // WordCamp at the MD Science Center // Intro to CCBC Fab Lab [Events]

Crash course in video broadcasting with GBTC: Andrew Hazlett and Sharon Paley, hosts of the Greater Baltimore Technology Council’s Baltimore Weekly podcast, will be at Thursday’s Tech and Social Change Meetup dishing on how to put together an improvised tech talk show. Thursday, Sept. 6, 6:30 p.m. Location TBA, Baltimore city. RSVP. FREE. WordCamp Baltimore at Maryland Science [...]
GBTC Groundwork hackathon rescheduled for late September, after UnWIREd uncategorized

Aug. 13, 2012 9:30 am

GBTC Groundwork hackathon rescheduled for late September, after UnWIREd

The Greater Baltimore Technology Council announced last week that its Groundwork data hackathon has been rescheduled until sometime “likely in late September.” As Sharon Paley wrote on the GBTC website: Some very nice people (of the state and federal variety) with access to extremely important (but not yet open) data, heard about Groundwork and proposed that they [...]
GBTC uses Baltimore Weekly to drive discussion of Baltimore’s tech scene uncategorized

Jul. 16, 2012 8:30 am

GBTC uses Baltimore Weekly to drive discussion of Baltimore’s tech scene

Members of the Greater Baltimore Technology Council Andrew Hazlett and Sharon Paley have found a way to make Mondays a little more bearable—at least for people interested in Baltimore’s tech scene. Since the end of May, Hazlett and Paley have hosted a live-streaming, Google-Plus hangout chat called Baltimore Weekly, where they talk tech-related events and [...]
SocialToaster’s online ambassadors // Betamore to open // Parking Panda love [LINKS] uncategorized

Jul. 6, 2012 8:30 am

SocialToaster’s online ambassadors // Betamore to open // Parking Panda love [LINKS]

Five things you need to know about Baltimore’s SocialToaster [Baltimore Sun] “Here’s how it works: If you’re a brand or digital publisher, you use SocialToaster to register a bevy of “ambassadors”, or “Super Fans”, who get early access to your news and promotions. Here’s the thing about these ambassadors: They’re very socially connected, and they like [...]