Oakland Local turns 1 this week, Happy Birthday to us
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Mon, 21 May at 5:16pm.

Okay, we were too busy to plan a big party (we'll do it later), but that doesn't mean we didn't notice--Oakland Local turned one year old this week.  Yep, 12 months ago, OL went live, thanks to support from a J-Lab New Voices grant and lots of incredibly hard work from more than a few people.

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Oakland Local thanks YOU!

Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Mon, 21 May at 5:13pm.

Two thousand-eleven was a very good year for Oakland Local. 

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Heading to Stanford to speak at McClatchy Symposium on news and social media, May 17, 2012
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Sun, 13 May at 9:31pm.

I'm honored to say that I've been invited to be part of an annual Stanford John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships program this coming week.  The topic of the event is “#Hashtagged: How Social Media are Revolutionizing the News" and the other speakers are from NPR, Google and Yahoo; we're going to be talking about the impact of social media on news, a subhect dear to my heart.

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OL Contributing Editor Reginald James wins one of six $20K AP-Google scholarships
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Sat, 5 May at 8:07am.

Reginald James, an Oakland Local contributing editor and multimedia journalist, is one of six winners of the

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Come out for Code for Oakland: June 4, 2011 Kaiser Center--and build apps for our town!
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 4 May at 8:12pm.

Join us on June 4 for Code for Oakland, the first ever Oakland hackathon/bar camp dedicated to building applications that meet the needs of our local community.

This event is being organized by Oakland Local, Urban Strategies Council, Innovative Oakland,  Code for America and a slew of others.

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What giving money means for Oakland Local (a thank you and explanation)
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Wed, 18 Apr at 7:30am.

When I got home today, there was an email from the Google Employee Matching Gifts Program, based in Princeton, N.J. The email told me to log into the giving portal because there were people at Google who wanted to give us money - money Google would match.  

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East Bay Express recognizes long time OL advertisers in current issue
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Sat, 31 Mar at 9:22am.

Oakland Local was thrilled to see our longtime friends and advertiser Marin Sun Farms, a wonderful local meat supplier, featured on the front cover of the East Bay Express and in a lead article in the food section.  These guys have been at it--as a family-owned local-area business--for quite some time, and it's g

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Oaklanders--and Oakland Local--at South by SouthWest 2012
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Wed, 14 Mar at 7:59am.

It's been fascinating to be a participant in SXSW 2012 this year.  Oakland Local's panel, on News Entrepreneurs vs. Traditional Journalism is Tuesday, March 13 at 3:30 (http://bit.ly/wnUzr5) and the slide for the talk are live on slideshare (link here).

Some of the things that make being at SXW Interactive interesting this year:

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