Google’s Steve Grove Oakland Digital (ODALC) is proud and excited to have Google’s Steve Grove keynote our July 25th Oakland City Hall event. Steve leads Google’s efforts to grow the Google+ community through partnerships with influential organizations, brands, and public figures. Previously he built the news and politics division of YouTube, including CitizenTube, a channel that curates and promotes citizen-generated news clips from breaking news events.

Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (ODALC) held the grand opening of their new digital co-working and Internet literacy facility in the Frank G. Mar building located at 1224 Harrison Street, on Saturday, May 29th, 2010.

Distinguished guests that attended the launch event: Jean Quan, Dr. Kitty Epstein, and Dr. Andreas Weigend. ODALC’s service to disadvantaged youth and struggling small business owners in the community empowers them with digital literacy and technology to achieve higher career goals.

Eight new “green professional development” certificate programs, the instruction for which will be offered online, were launched, March 29 by California State University, East Bay’s Division of Continuing and International Education.

Rising Sun Energy Center, founded in 1994, has evolved from a modest renewable energy education center into a leading green workforce development and retrofit services organization.

The cost of creating, sharing and distributing data in real time has become essentially zero, leading to an explosion of user generated content.

The Energy Action Coalition is a U.S. non-profit organization made up of 50 partner organizations in the U.S. and Canada that runs campaigns to build the youth and student clean energy movement and advocate for tangible changes on local, state, national and international levels in North America. Energy Action focuses its campaigns on campuses, communities, corporate practices, and politics. It is part of the Global Youth Climate Movement.

Keeping Oakland green takes all of us, so we ask you to save these dates and join us in having fun being green! Nationally recognized as one of America’s greenest cities, Oakland continuously works to demonstrate our pledge to build an ecologically sustainable, economically dynamic and socially equitable future for our community.

I’m Ron Dellums, Mayor of Oakland, California. Why should Google select Oakland? Quite simply, because Oakland citizens get involved. Oakland is a dynamic city with unparalleled community involvement.

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The Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center’s first public workshop introduced participants to new online technologies, sometimes referred to as social media, and its impact on the digital music business. Through influential speakers and practical hands-on demos, participants examined the current state of the music industry to understand the relationship between technology, music, self-promotion, and the importance of exploring new venues.