{"id":85,"date":"2005-10-10T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T02:08:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-10T19:10:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T19:10:59","slug":"i_was_this_close_to_craig_from_craigslis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/i_was_this_close_to_craig_from_craigslis\/","title":{"rendered":"I was *this close* to Craig (from craigslist)!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a small website-fix gig in downtown SF, I donned my free black T-shirt and showed up to the Craiglist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp<\/a> for a volunteer shift. The place was hoppin’. So much energized networking in one place — I could have stuffed a mattress with all the business cards floating around!My assignment was to oversee a couple of sessions in one of the conference rooms. Basically, I stood at the doors, handed out surveys, did a head count, and the collected surveys at the end. Aside from being on my feet for seven hours in Birkenstocks, it was a lot of fun. It’s inspiring to see hundreds of nonprofit leaders in a room, sharing ideas and feeding off each others’ positive energy. The last session I oversaw featured none other than Craig Newmark<\/a>, founder of craigslist.org<\/a>. The visionary who started the stone rolling. The celebrity behind the site. Needless to say, the session was packed. The topic was interesting, too — how to build community online (and offline). It started the wheels turning in my head again about The Writ<\/a>.Some Interesting Craig Lore…<\/b><\/p>\n