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[edit] What is Bucketworks?
Bucketworks manages and develops a creative exercise center for the health and fitness of the brain. Located just north of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it is a rapidly growing, non-profit organization dedicated to helping children, teens and adults grow their ideas and turn them into reality.
Bucketworks has served over 10,000 people since opening in 2002. Groups, teams and individuals use Bucketworks to achieve inspiration together. Offering space for individuals and groups to create and participate in everything from art, theater and dance, to business, technology, and leadership, Bucketworks', Executive Director, James Carlson, seeks to duplicate their model in other communities.
Bucketworks was founded by current Executive Director James Carlson, as a program of The School Factory.
The website is http://www.bucketworks.org. Inspired by Wikipedia and Wiki in general, Bucketworks uses its Wiki site as its Groupbrain, which now consists of over 2,800 pages and is updated many times per day.
[edit] Executive Director
James Carlson has over twenty years experience with information technology in a social context, from implementation through design and architecture. James has worked with the world’s largest corporations such as Proctor and Gamble, Best Buy, France Telecom, McDonalds, Sony Pictures, the IRS, and the US Army on their online global communications and marketing strategies. He has experience in both for-profit and non-profit corporations, and is now focused on developing replicable social enterprise. James also serves on the Advisory Board of the Cardinal Stritch Leadership Center in Milwaukee.
[edit] Programs
Podcasting School, A new program is opening for podcasting and other media. On the agenda are plans to offer portable podcasting carts or stations that can be rented by those who want to podcast but don't have and can't afford the equipment. The website for Bucketworks Podcasting Network is http://podcast.bucketworks.org.
Community Talk Back is a show currently active as a pilot and soon to be podcast, which invites a live, local audience to discuss and debate relevant and immediate social and cultural issues.
Emergency Digital uses an innovative approach to teaching organizations, teams, and individuals how to use technology that makes them masters of the digital medium. They have trained professionals, managers, executives, teachers, students, and children in the authoring of websites and online documents. Clients so far include the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, the Alliance School, Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee, Mandel Company, Golda Meir school, and many other individuals and groups.
[edit] Bucketworks and James Carlson in the News
Everything Goes at Bucketworks (Shepard Express) http://www.shepherd-express.com/6_30_05/ae_feature.htm
Bucketworks Provides Creative Space to Fill Up (OnMilwaukee.com) http://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/bucketworks.html
Danstellations Not Your Typical Exhibit (Journal-Sentinel Online) http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/jul05/344726.asp
Profile of James Carlson (MKE Online) http://www.mkeonline.com/story.asp?id=337120
James Carlson Lives to Learn (Vital Source Magazine) http://www.vitalsourcemag.com/story/view/100426
