From April 9 – 13, we will be in sunny Jacksonville, FL to bring you coverage of the second annual One Spark Crowdfunding Festival. This year look bigger and better, and there is more than $3.25M up for grabs.
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With One Spark beginning next Wednesday, now seems an appropriate time to do a quick rundown of all the creator projects that we are looking forward to seeing.
Ryan Whitman created Join The Effort, a Jacksonville non-profit in 2011. The initial idea was to create a platform of sorts that helped recruit and encourage people to volunteer at various events, causes and other non-profits across Jacksonville. As an example, Join The Effort partnered with last year's OneSpark winner Re-Threaded. In that effort, a [...]
It doesn't matter if you moved into a new subdivision, apartment complex, or town home community, getting to know your neighbors can be a daunting and intimidating task. People can go years if not decades and never know that person that lives across the street, down the hall or even right underneath them. It happens [...]
Over the past year we've seen quite a bit of great educational technology. From our coverage of FETC, TECA and SXSWedu we've seen a lot of systems that help teachers manage students, assignments, grades and more. Diane Bixler, an educator for nearly two decades, has developed a new workflow management system for educators, with a [...]
If I'm correct, 3D printing shops are going to be as common place as your neighborhood Kinko's before too long. There are companies already paving the way like Jacksonville's Forge and Swarupa Studios. Swarupa Studios is hoping to gain attention for their bricks and mortar 3D Printing business at OneSpark next week. The idea behind [...]
At last years One Spark, we had a chance to speak with the Nerdular Crew. They have built a really unique "Social Marketplace for geeks, fanboys, fangirlsl & creatives."
One Spark 2014 is just days away! We are getting pretty pumped. As you have probably noticed, we have been profiling One Spark Creators over the past couple of weeks. So, as its Friday, we thought a #FF for One Spark Creators was appropriate.
Matt Baer is a software engineer and entrepreneur and his goal is to make communication easier. Enter LunchTable, an android based chat app that he started working on during his college days at Radford University. The story behind the name of his app is a relatively simple one: In college I developed a group communication [...]
If you are hosting an event, SNAPprints allows you to "sign up on the website as the event host, write a short description, choose the maximum number of images someone can upload, set a time limit, and that's it!"
