This is the March schedule for City Share, a speaker-based conversation series focused on finding creative solutions to community issues.

March’s City Share schedule spans from the library to the internet, from textbook pages to web pages. Each will focus on ways to gather, communicate, learn and form groups—in real time, online and in the spaces in between.

March 3: “A People’s Library”
featuring Sari Feldman, director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library.

The Cuyahoga County Public Library’s mission is to be at the center of community life by providing an environment where reading, lifelong learning and civic engagement thrive. The library has been named by Hennen’s American Public Library Rating System as the #1 library in the nation for its size for the last six years.

March 17: “The Contribution Revolution” featuring Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Mr. Shirky is a consultant, teacher and author who focuses on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. In addition to teaching New Media at NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, Mr. Shirky’s consulting practice focuses on the utilization of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired. He describes his book Here Comes Everybody as being about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures."

“As we learned in gathering Stand surveys, communication is the basis for positive change," said City Share Coordinator Blair Waddell. "Connecting people and initiating conversation around shared concerns is what Stand seeks to do, both online and in person. This month focuses on the different ways we can do just that."

Join Stand every first and third Wednesday from 12-1 p.m. at CreateHere for light lunch and discussion. City Share is free and open to the public.

To find out more about City Share, visit either www.chattanoogastand.com or www.createhere.org.